Graham Alexander MacGregor is a British academic, professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Wolfson Institute,

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MacGregor trained at

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where he was taught by the distinguished

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, Professor Hugh de Wardener. MacGregor's own speciality at this stage was also in kidney disease. He developed an interest in the relationship between kidney function and

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which led him to a parallel campaigning role, attempting to persuade food manufacturers to reduce the quantity of salt in factory produced food. More recently he has become chairman of

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. MacGregor is also honorary consultant physician at

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, London, and a visiting professor at

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, London. He was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for services to cardiovascular disease.

Recognition

McGregor was listed in the IoS Happy List, 2012.

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