Dr. Peter Walton trained in Medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, and at St Thomas’s Hospital, London. He went on to be the first doctor to undertake a full-time MBA at London Business School in the mid-1980s. Peter was the Founding Managing Director of Dendrite Clinical Systems and has built the company into a world-leading organization providing both hospital departmental clinical database systems and National/International Clinical Registry platforms for a wide variety of medical and surgical specialties, working across 48 countries.
Education and Training
Dr. Peter Walton trained in Medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, and at St Thomas’s Hospital, London. He completed a full-time MBA at London Business School in the mid-1980s, becoming the first doctor to do so.
Leadership and Clinical Focus
As the Founding Managing Director of Dendrite Clinical Systems, Dr. Walton has built the company into a world-leading organization. Dendrite provides hospital departmental clinical database systems and National/International Clinical Registry platforms for various medical and surgical specialties, working across 48 countries.
Contributions and Impact
For over 20 years, Dr. Walton has been a regular faculty guest speaker on the international stage, lecturing about the value of registries at scientific meetings worldwide. His significant contributions to the field were recognized with a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians for his work on registries.
Specialisation and Collaborative Initiatives
Dr. Walton has been instrumental in building several national bariatric surgery registries, working closely with the National Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Societies of the UK, India, Turkey, Kuwait, and Brazil. Most recently, he initiated the creation of the IFSO Global Bariatric Surgery Registry, which provides substantive demographic data on bariatric surgical patient populations and analysis of the patterns of surgical practice in over 40 countries.
Academic Contributions and Community Involvement
Dr. Walton’s work has significantly influenced global standards in clinical database systems and registries. His contributions have been pivotal in bridging the gap between health professionals and patients, striving to overcome barriers in patient care.
Links
Dendrite Clinical Systems
International Bariatric Club Congress
