Career
Yates qualified as a physician in 1953. After national service with the British Army in Kenya, Egypt, and the Suez Canal, he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1957. His rheumatological training began at St Thomas’s, specialising in locomotor medicine and electrodiagnosis. He also spent a year at the Hammersmith Hospital to train in systemic rheumatology.
He published many research papers on neurophysiology, spinal stenosis and muscle.
In 1966 he became consultant in charge of the department of physical medicine at St Thomas' Hospital and remained in charge until 1990. He was director of the school of physiotherapy at St Thomas’, and also consultant rheumatologist to King Edward VII Hospital and honorary consultant adviser in rheumatology to the British Army. From 1990, he continued in private practice at St George's Hospital until his retirement from clinical practice in 1999.
In the field of rheumatology he was president of the Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Section of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1980. He was President of the British Association for Rheumatology from 1982 to 1984. He contributed to committees at the Royal College of Physicians.
He died following a garden accident in September 2004.
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