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Dr Peter Fisher MBBChir FRCP FFHom was tragically killed in a road cycling accident on 16 August 2018 as he cycled to work at the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine. Dr Fisher is probably best known for being Physician to Her Majesty The Queen physician, but he was also Director of Research and Consultant Physician at the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine (RLHIM) in London, England. He was accredited (Board Certified) in homeopathy and rheumatology. The RLHIM is part of University College London Hospitals, one of the largest academic medical centres in the UK, and is Europe’s largest public sector centre for integrated medicine. Dr Fisher was a widely published expert in rheumatology and forms of complementary and alternative medicine. He was elected President of the Faculty of Homeopathy in March 2018, was a member of the World Health Organization’s Expert Advisory Panel on Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine,  helped to draft its Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023, and was the long-standing Editor-in-Chief of the international medical journal Homeopathy.

Peter Fisher was an active clinician, specialising in integrating homeopathy and other forms of complementary medicine with other forms of health care and  led numerous research projects in integrated medicine. His interest in the area was triggered by a visit to China during the Cultural Revolution while still a medical student at Cambridge University. His research work centred on responding to the problems of health care, including ‘effectiveness gaps’, multimorbidity, antimicrobial resistance and polypharmacy, by integrating the best of conventional and complementary medicine. He played a prominent role at the recently held Science of Water Homeopathy Conference and Dinner Party prequel at the House of Lords 13-14 July 2018. A tribute to Dr Fisher has been posted at University College London Hospital