David Anthony Hilton Yates, FRCP (15 August 1930 – 13 September 2004) was an English rheumatologist and consultant, president of the British Association for Rheumatology and of the Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.
After national service with the British Army in Kenya, Egypt, and the Suez Canal, he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1957.
His rheumatological training began at St Thomas’s, specialising in locomotor medicine and electrodiagnosis.
He also spent a year at the Hammersmith Hospital to train in systemic rheumatology.
He published many research papers on neurophysiology, spinal stenosis and muscle.