John Richard Anthony Mitchell (24 October 1928 – 22 March 1991) was a prominent British physician and medical academic.
[1] He attended Morecambe Grammar School before studying physiology at the University of Manchester, where he graduated with a first-class degree with honours.
[1] Mitchell worked as a registrar for Sir George Pickering at Oxford before obtaining an MRC research fellowship and completing a DPhil under the guidance of Gwyn Macfarlane.
[2] He was instrumental in the designing and commissioning of Nottingham's teaching hospital, the Queen's Medical Centre.
[1] Mitchell made significant contributions to the fields of cardiovascular disease, thrombosis, epidemiology, clinical trials, and stroke research.