Parveen Kumar

Dame Parveen June Kumar is a British doctor who is currently Professor of Medicine and Education at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. She worked in the NHS for over 40 years as a consultant gastroenterologist and physician at Barts and the London Hospitals and the Homerton University Hospital. She was the President of the British Medical Association in 2006, of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2010 to 2012, of the Medical Women's Federation from 2016 to 2018 and of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund from 2013 to 2020. She was also Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians from 2003 to 2005. In addition, she was a founding non-executive director of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence, chaired the Medicines Commission UK until 2005, and also chaired the BUPA Foundation Charity for Research until 2013.

1 June 1942

Born on the same birth day (1 June): Ben Smith (rugby union) • Carlota Ciganda • Giorgos Lillikas • Greg Schiano • Hans Vogt (linguist) • Linda Scott • Nargis • Toyo Ito

Born in the same month (June 1942): Arthur Brown (musician) • Carl Radle • Chantal Goya • Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe • Curtis Mayfield • Doğu Perinçek • Frank Zane • Gordon Burns • Hans-Joachim Walde • John E. McLaughlin • Michel Tremblay • Mike Ahern (Australian politician) • Neil Trudinger • Nicholas Lloyd • Nick Tate • Pat Hutchins • Thabo Mbeki • Yiannis Boutaris