INDIAN-ORIGIN DOCTOR MUMTAZ PATEL ELECTED PRESIDENT OF UK'S ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

Indian-origin Dr Mumtaz Patel has become the 123rd president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), a prestigious position leading the UK's professional medical organisation with 40,000 worldwide members. Born to Indian immigrant parents in Lancashire, north-west England, Dr Patel works as a consultant nephrologist in Manchester.

The RCP announced her as the "first Indo-Asian Muslim president" and the fifth female leader in the organisation's history since the 16th century. "Dr Mumtaz Patel has been elected as the 123rd president of the Royal College of Physicians. She has promised to ‘modernise the college and re-establish the RCP as the voice of our membership and of medicine'," it said in its statement.

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