Tom Philp

Thomas Philp FRCP(Ed), FRCR (19 April 1923 – 18 December 1994) was a Scottish consultant radiologist.

[1] Philp was educated at Strathallan School in Perthshire and the University of Edinburgh, graduating (MB, ChB) in 1945.

[1] Between 1946 and 1948 he completed his national service with the Royal Army Medical Corps serving in West Africa and India attaining the rank of major.

[2] On his return to Edinburgh, Philp joined the Radiology Department at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh where he was appointed registrar 1951, senior registrar in 1952 and senior hospital medical officer in 1953.

[2][3] In 1971, he was awarded a World Health Organization travelling fellowship to Japan where he researched new developments in gastrointestinal radiology.