Author
 
Anthony Toft is a consultant physician at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland.

As graduate of Edinburgh University Medical School his main clinical research interest is the diagnosis and management of thyroid disease. In particular, he has studied the effects of TSH-suppressive doses of thyroxine on target organ function in patients with primary hypothyroidism. He published numerous articles in scientific journals and textbooks and is an internationally recognized thyroidologist. He is a former President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and was the inaugural President of the British Thyroid Association – formerly known as the London Thyroid Club.

He is Chairman of the local organising committee of the European Thyroid Association Meeting to be held in Edinburgh in September, 2003.