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Professor Sir John Tooke is a clinician scientist with an interest in diabetes and vascular disease. He is inaugural Dean of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, a joint initiative of the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth and the NHS in Devon and Cornwall. He is currently Chair of both the Medical Schools Council and the UK Healthcare Education Advisory Committee (UKHEAC). He is a member of the National Institute for Health Research Advisory Board, the Universities UK Health and Social Care Policy Committee, the NHS Evidence Advisory Board and the Health and Education National Strategic Exchange (HENSE). In 2006 Sir John led a High Level Group for the Chief Medical Officer on Overcoming Barriers to Clinical Effectiveness and in 2008 he chaired the Independent Inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers leading to the publication of ‘Aspiring to Excellence’.