Fiona Godlee (born August 4, 1961) has been editor in chief of the BMJ since 2005. Educated at Bedales, she qualified as a doctor in 1985 at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, having studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, then trained as a general physician in London, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

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