Sir John Iredale (born 1960) is a British academic and medical doctor. He is Pro Vice Chancellor for Health, and Chair of Experimental Medicine, at the University of Bristol. He specialises in pancreatic and hepatobiliary medicine.
Iredale was born in Oxford on 9 November 1960. His father was the director of the Harwell laboratory of the UK Atomic Energy Authority in Oxfordshire. He attended the City of Oxford High School for Boys. In 1985, Iredale graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine with Honours from the University of Southampton.
Between 1991 and 2003, Iredale held a number of externally funded Medical Research Council Fellowships; he held a Training Fellowship, then a Clinician Scientist Fellowship, and then a Senior Clinical Fellowship. Iredale received a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Southampton in 1995. He carried out most or all of the work for the MRC Fellowships at the University of Southampton, and from 1998 until 2004 he was Professor of Hepatology at the University.
Between 2004 and 2006, Iredale was Professor of Medicine at the University of Southampton. In 2006, Iredale became a Consultant Hepatologist at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, a role he remained in until 2016. Also in 2006, he became Chair of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, a role he served in until 2013. Iredale left the University of Edinburgh in 2016. While at the University of Edinburgh, Iredale served as Vice Principal Health Services and Dean of Clinical Medicine. As of 2008, he was part of the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University. Iredale also served as a Non-Executive Director of NHS Lothian between 2010 and 2016.
Iredale joined the University of Bristol in 2016. As of December 2021, Iredale was an Honorary Consultant and Non-Executive Director at North Bristol NHS Trust. In January 2022, Iredale became Interim Executive Chair of the UK Medical Research Council, although he had been a member of the Council from 2016; he stepped down from his position as Pro Vice-Chancellor for Health and Life Sciences at the University of Bristol in order to carry out this interim role. In September 2022, Iredale became the Chair of the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine, having previously been the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Institute. In November 2023, Iredale chaired a roundtable by the UK Government Office for Science about human genome databases. As of December 2023, he was the Chair of the Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute's Board. Iredale is now Pro Vice Chancellor Health at the University of Bristol. He also holds two Honorary Consultant contracts at NHS trusts.
Iredale's honours include a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London (starting in 1999), a Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences (starting in 2003) and a knighthood (starting in 2024).