Peter Millard (1937–2018) FRCP was a British

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

known for his work in

geriatrics Geriatrics, or geriatric medicine, is a medical specialty focused on addressing the unique health needs of older adults. The term ''geriatrics'' originates from the Greek γέρων ''geron'' meaning "old man", and ιατρός ''iatros'' mean ...

. He was an

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of geriatrics at

St George's, University of London St George's, University of London (SGUL), legally the St George's Hospital Medical School, was a public medical school from 1733 to 2024 in South London, England. It merged with City, University of London to form City St George's, University of ...

.Keynote speaker biography
Second International Health and Social Care Modelling Conference, Portrush, Northern Ireland 18–20 March 2008, archived from the original 25 August 2010. He served as president of the British Geriatrics Society from 1994 to 1996. In his 1992 doctoral thesis, he invented the name

nosokinetics Nosokinetics is the science/subject of measuring and modelling the process of care in health and social care systems.'' Nosokinetics'' brings together the Greek words for ''noso'': disease and ''kinetics'': movement. Black box models are currently ...

for the mathematical study of how patients flow through health care systems, and from 2004 to 2006 he edited a newsletter on the subject, the ''Nosokinetics News''. He died on 18 September 2018.

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1937 births 2018 deaths British scientists 20th-century English medical doctors Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Academics of St George's, University of London Academics of the University of Westminster {{UK-med-bio-stub