Professor Sir Ian Gilmore

Professor Sir Ian Gilmore is an Honorary Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and holds an Honorary Chair at the University of Liverpool. He is an adjunct Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.

After training in Cambridge, London and the USA, he moved to Liverpool as a Consultant in 1980, where he has enjoyed working ever since. His specialty interest is liver disease. He is past president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the British Society of Gastroenterology. He was chairman of Liverpool Health Partners, an organisation created between the University and the teaching hospitals in Liverpool to promote an Academic Health Science System in order to foster academic innovation, education and service development in the region. He has particular interest in health harms related to alcohol misuse and the role of regulation in reducing this. 

Professor Gilmore chairs the UK Alcohol Health Alliance in which relevant agencies work together in a coherent and focused framework. He is a member of the Advisory Board on Safer Gambling and is a member of the Climate and Health Council.  He is a member of the Royal Liverpool Golf Club.

He was commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant of Merseyside in 2010 and, received a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2010.