Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School existed as a legal entity for 13 years, as the midpoint of a series of mergers which strategically consolidated the many small medical schools in west London into one large institution under the aegis of Imperial College London.
In 1984, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and Westminster Hospital Medical School merged to form the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. This move was part of a series of mergers in the London medical schools in the early 1980s, which foreshadowed the second, larger round of mergers in the late 1990s.
Based at the Charing Cross Hospital site in Hammersmith and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in Chelsea, the new medical school took the form of its larger precursor (CXHMS) in using "X" as an abbreviation for "Cross". The medical school also maintained academic units at the university hospitals of Queen Mary's Roehampton, West Middlesex, Ashford and Hillingdon.
In 1997, CXWMS merged with Imperial College, London (whose medical department was at St Mary's Hospital Medical School), The National Heart and Lung Institute and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School to form Imperial College School of Medicine.
Student life
Students' Union based around the Reynolds Bar. CXWSU merged in Imperial College School of Medicine Students' Union in 1997.
Deans YEAR DEAN PRESIDENT 2000-1 Prof JMA Whitehouse – 1999-0 Prof JMA Whitehouse – 1998-9 Prof JMA Whitehouse Wade Gayed 1997-8 Prof JMA Whitehouse Nick Carter 1996-7 Prof RM Greenhalgh – 1995-6 Prof RM Greenhalgh Christina Dale 1994-5 Prof RM Greenhalgh – Dwynwen Roberts 1993-4 Prof RM Greenhalgh – Andy Carne 1992-3 Mr JEH Pendower – Cliona Kirwan 1991-2 Mr JEH Pendower – Stana Bojanic 1990-1 Mr JEH Pendower – Eddie Strivens 1989-90 Mr JEH Pendower – Roby Rakhit 1988-9 Professor Tony Glenister – Abigail Samuels 1987-8 Professor Tony Glenister – 1986-7 Professor Tony Glenister– – 1985-6 Professor Tony Glenister – 1984-5 – –
Notable alumni Mark Porter - The Times and Radio 4 doctor Dawn Harper - Embarrassing Bodies on Channel 4 Gary O'Driscoll - Arsenal team doctor Fintan Coyle - Presenter of Speakeasy and inventor of "The Weakest Link" Masood Ahmed - Chief Medical Officer, Black Country & West Birmingham CCG, former Global Medical Director for Dell Andrew Cole - Orthopaedic Surgeon Southampton and SAC advisor
References
External links CXWMS on Facebook