
First Indian-origin woman elected President of UK’s Royal College of Physicians
Mumtaz Patel, a second-generation British Indian woman, has been elected the 123rd president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). This is momentous, as in the past 500 years, since the RCP’s establishment in 1518, it has only been headed by three women. Patel, who was appointed as the acting President last year, will be…