Roger Neighbour
OBE, MA, DSc, FRCP, FRACGP, FRCGP
London, England
Past President
Roger Neighbour graduated from King’s College, Cambridge, and St Thomas’ Hospital, and worked as a GP in Abbot’s Langley, Hertfordshire, for 30 years. He was a trainer, VTS program director, MRCGP examiner for many years and Convenor of the RCGP Panel of Examiners from 1997 to 2002. In 2003 he was elected President of the RCGP for a three-year term.
Now retired from clinical practice, Roger lectures and teaches widely in the UK and abroad on consulting skills and general practice. In 2011 he was made an OBE for services to medical education. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he has published and taught on telephone and video consultations.
Roger is a practicing Zen Buddhist. (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHE8FmFO4wg&t=40s) He plays the violin to a semi-professional standard, having started at the age of 4, and has a passion for the music of Schubert, about whom he has published a controversial ‘blighted twin’ theory. He has a second home in Granville, on the coast of Normandy, France.
