title: Professor Arthur Norman Exton-Smith CBE MA MD FRCP (1920-90): distinguished geriatrician and gerontologist.
abstract: Professor Norman Exton-Smith was a highly respected, distinguished postwar consultant geriatrician with a worldwide reputation. He devoted his life to improving the medical care of elderly people and researching age-related decline in physical function, particularly thermoregulation and postural balance. He established thriving clinical and research departments at St Pancras Hospital, London. Many of his junior medical staff became well-known geriatricians. He published and lectured extensively, organized many meetings and conferences, and was advisor to the Department of Health and Social Security for many years. He was a valued authority on geriatric medicine within the Royal College of Physicians of London and a major influence in the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) of which he was Secretary and later the President.
authors.affiliation: ucgamjd@ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Denham
mesh_terms: D001833:Body Temperature Regulation; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D004856:Postural Balance