Monty Lyman
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| Monty Lyman | |
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| Born | October 1992 (age 33) |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Imperial College London (BSc) University of Oxford (MSc, Academic Clinical Fellowship) University of Birmingham (MBChB) |
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| 🌐 Website | www |
Monty Lyman is a British doctor and author.
Career
Dr Lyman is a medical doctor and research fellow at the University of Oxford.[1][2]
Books
His first book, The Remarkable Life of the Skin is described by his publisher (Transworld, Penguin Random House) as ‘the first popular science book to explore our most overlooked organ in all its physical, psychological and social glory’.[3] It was published in July 2019. The book was a Sunday Times ‘Must Read’,[4] one of their ‘Best Books of 2019’,[5] and chosen as a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.[6]
Lyman's second book, The Painful Truth, was published in July 2021 and quickly became a Top 10 bestseller of all books sold on Amazon.[7]
Awards and nominations
The Remarkable Life of the Skin was shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize.[8] Aged 26 at the time, Lyman remains the youngest shortlisted author in the prize’s 34-year history.[9]
While the Wellcome Book Prize paused in 2019, The Remarkable Life of the Skin won the public vote in the unofficial but Wellcome-endorsed #NotTheWellcomePrize.[10]
Lyman’s essay based on The Painful Truth won the 2020 Royal Society of Medicine's Pain Medicine prize.[11]
Media
Lyman has appeared on TV (BBC Breakfast, BBC Morning Live), radio (including BBC Inside Science and BBC World Service),[12] podcasts (such as BBC science focus)[13] and has been a keynote speaker at national conferences.[14] Lyman writes articles for newspapers (such as the Guardian)[15] and literary journals (such as Literary Hub).[16]
Personal life
He lives in Oxford, England.
Published works
| Book | Year | Published | Other |
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| The Remarkable Life of the Skin | 2019 | Transworld (Penguin Random House) | ISBN 9781784163525 Search this book on  .[17]
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| The Painful Truth | 2021 | Transworld (Penguin Random House) | ISBN 9781529176506 Search this book on .[18]
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References
- ↑ "Oxford University Hospitals". www.ouh.nhs.uk.
- ↑ "Academic Clinical Fellows - Point-of-care testing in serious mental illness". www.ox.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Monty Lyman". www.penguin.co.uk.
- ↑ Times, The Sunday. "Must reads: the best books of 2019" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ↑ Bleach, Stephen. "The Sunday Times best science books of the year 2019" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - The Remarkable Life of the Skin, Towards the Light". BBC.
- ↑ "Amazon Top 10 Update" – via www.montylyman.com.
- ↑ "Shortlist for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019 revealed | Royal Society". royalsociety.org.
- ↑ "Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize: All winners, shortlisted and longlisted". Google Docs.
- ↑ "Not The Wellcome Book Prize". bookishbeck.wordpress.com.
- ↑ "The Royal Society of Medicine Sleep and Pain Webinar". The Royal Society of Medicine.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, Inventing GPS, Carbon nanotube computer, Steven Strogatz and Monty Lyman discuss calculus and skin". BBC.
- ↑ "Dr Monty Lyman: What does our skin tell us about ourselves?". BBC Science Focus Magazine.
- ↑ "Wound Care Today Twitter Feed". twitter.com.
- ↑ "I am a doctor, and having hypnotherapy for IBS has changed my belief about pain". The Guardian.
- ↑ "What humanity's newest disease can learn from its oldest". Lithub.
- ↑ "The Remarkable Life of the Skin". Transworld.
- ↑ "The Painful Truth". Transworld.
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