Peter Bourne

Peter Bourne
Born	1939 Oxford, England
Occupation	Physician

Peter G. Bourne (born 1939 in Oxford, England) is a physician, anthropologist, biographer, author and international civil servant with experience in several senior government positions. He is currently Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Vice-Chancellor Emeritus at St. George's University, Grenada and Chairman, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.

Bourne was born in 1939 in Oxford, England. He received his early education at the Dragon School before attending Whitgift School, Croydon. Following a year of undergraduate studies (1957-1958) at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, Bourne was admitted to the University's School of Medicine, where he received his M.D. degree in 1962. He later received an M.A. in anthropology from Stanford University in 1969.

After graduating from medical school he spent a year (1962-1963) as a fellow in Emory University's psychiatry department studying arrested alcoholics in the city jail in Atlanta. He established a ground-breaking program through which arrested alcoholics could take the drug antabuse as an alternative to serving prison time. He was active in the civil rights movement and participated in the effort to integrate lunch counters in the city. For the next year, he was a rotating intern at Kings County Hospital in Seattle, Washington.

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