Andrew Elder is a Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine for Older People in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK and an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, where he himself graduated as BSc in 1979 and MBChB in 1982.

He has held a number of positions relating to undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching and assessment at local, national and international levels, and is currently Medical Director of MRCP(UK), which provides examinations in internal medicine and its specialties to over 25,000 candidates per annum globally. Prior to this, from 2008-2013, he was Chair of the MRCP(UK) Clinical Examining Board and responsible for the PACES examination – the largest international postgraduate clinical skills assessment in the world – and he has personally taught or assessed bedside clinical skills in around 20 different countries.

In 2013 he worked with Professor Abraham Verghese as a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University Medical School and was subsequently appointed as a Consultant to the Stanford Bedside Medicine programme and as a Visiting Professor to Stanford for 2015.