{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Use British English|date = February 2018}} {{Infobox medical person |name = Andrew T. Elder |honorific_suffix = FRCPEdin MACP FRCP FRCPSG FAMM |box_width = |image = AT Elder CASBS Fellow 2018.jpg |image_width = |alt = |caption = Andrew Elder at CASBS Stanford in 2018 |birth_date = 16 November 1958 |birth_place = Edinburgh |death_date = |death_place = |profession = physician |specialism = Geriatrics, Acute medicine |research_field = |known_for = |years_active = |education = University of Edinburgh |work_institutions = President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (2020-)<br/>Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/staff/2015/appointment-andrew-elder-031815|title=Appointment: Andrew Elder}}</ref> |prizes = |relations = }}
'''Andrew Elder''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRCPE}} is a consultant physician in acute medicine for older people, and former medical director of MRCP(UK). He is the current president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Care-News/next-president-announced-for-royal-college-of-physicians-of-edinburgh|title=Next President announced for Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|website=www.nationalhealthexecutive.com|access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref>
== Biography == Andrew Elder qualified in medicine (MBChB) in 1982 from the University of Edinburgh.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/about.html|title=About Stanford Medicine 25|website=Stanford Medicine 25|language=en|access-date=2019-11-23}}</ref>
He was medical director of MRCP(UK) from 2013 - 2018 and before this the chair of the Clinical Examining Board for MRCP(UK), responsible for the international PACES examination. He is recognised as an expert in the teaching and assessment of the core clinical bedside skills of observation, communication, history taking and physical examination.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mrcpuk.org/news/professor-elder-demits-mrcpuk-medical-director|title=Professor Elder demits as MRCP(UK) Medical Director {{!}} MRCPUK|website=www.mrcpuk.org|access-date=2019-11-23}}</ref> Two other medical directors of MRCP(UK), Dame Jane Dacre and Dr Neil Dewhurst, have become college presidents, the former for the Royal College of Physicians of London, and the latter for the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He led the UK Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AOMRC) Assessment Committee from 2015-2018, and promoted common practices in the detection of plagiarism in high stakes medical examinations and training in unconscious bias for clinical examiners.
He is a visiting professor at Stanford University Medical School on the Stanford 25 Program in Bedside Medicine<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/blog/archive/2013/Dr-Andrew-Elder-Visiting-Stanford.html|title=Dr. Andrew Elder Visiting Stanford|website=Stanford Medicine 25|language=en|access-date=2019-11-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Elder|first1=Andrew|last2=Chi|first2=Jeff|last3=Ozdalga|first3=Errol|last4=Kugler|first4=John|last5=Verghese|first5=Abraham|date=2013-08-28|title=The Road Back to the Bedside|journal=JAMA|language=en|volume=310|issue=8|pages=799–800|doi=10.1001/jama.2013.227195|pmid=23982364|issn=0098-7484}}</ref>
In 2015 he was appointed honorary professor at University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/staff/2015/appointment-andrew-elder-031815|title=Appointment: Andrew Elder|website=The University of Edinburgh|language=en|access-date=2019-11-23}}</ref>
In 2018 he became a CASBS Fellow with the Presence Center at Stanford University exploring the impact of the increasing prevalence of frailty and dependency in older age on medical care and society in general. Following this Fellowship he was appointed as Presence Scholar.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://casbs.stanford.edu/people/andrew-t-elder|title=Andrew T. Elder {{!}} Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences|website=casbs.stanford.edu|access-date=2019-11-23}}</ref>
In March 2020 he took office as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, resigning on the 29 May 2020.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Doctors call for meeting to clarify why president resigned from Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|url=https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2387|journal=BMJ|year=2020|doi=10.1136/bmj.m2387|last1=Christie|first1=Bryan|volume=369|article-number=m2387|pmid=32532822|s2cid=219607551|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was re-elected President early in 2021 and assumed office for a second time on 1 June 2021.
Elder was awarded Mastership of the American College of Physicians (MACP) in October 2021, the first doctor practising in Scotland to be so honoured, and only the second in the United Kingdom since inception of the award in 1923.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/college/professor-andrew-elder-awarded-mastership-american-college-physicians|title = Professor Andrew Elder awarded Mastership of the American College of Physicians|date = 26 October 2021}}</ref>
{{s-start}} {{s-aca}} {{s-bef |before=Derek Bell}} {{s-ttl |title=President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh |years=2020 - 2020}} {{s-aft |after=Angela Thomas (acting president)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/college/acting-president-professor-angela-thomas-obe|access-date=2020-06-15|title=Acting President – Professor Angela Thomas OBE|date=4 June 2020}}</ref>}} {{s-end}}
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