Andrew Goddard is the president of the Royal College of Physicians, and a consultant physician and gastroenterologist at Royal Derby Hospital. After gaining an MD from Cambridge University, Professor Goddard trained in Nottingham and was appointed as a consultant physician and gastroenterologist in Derby in 2001. He is chair of the British Society of Gastroenterology gastroduodenal section. He was director of the RCP's Medical Workforce Unit for 5 years until being appointed RCP registrar in 2014. In 2018 he was elected the 121st RCP president, the youngest for 400 years and first from the East Midlands.