Andrew Elder FRCPE is a consultant physician in acute medicine for older people, and former medical director of MRCP(UK).

He is recognised as an expert in the teaching and assessment of the core clinical bedside skills of observation, communication, history taking and physical examination.

He led the UK Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AOMRC) Assessment Committee from 2015-2018, and promoted common practices in the detection of plagiarism in high stakes medical examinations and training in unconscious bias for clinical examiners.

[7] In 2018 he became a CASBS Fellow with the Presence Center at Stanford University exploring the impact of the increasing prevalence of frailty and dependency in older age on medical care and society in general.

[8] In March 2020 he took office as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, resigning on the 29 May 2020.