My friend Dan Tunstall Pedoe, who has died aged 75, was a cardiologist who invented the non-invasive diagnosis of certain heart conditions and was a pioneer in sports medicine as the founding chief medical officer of the London Marathon.
Dan and his twin brother, Hugh, were born in Southampton, to Daniel Pedoe, a mathematician and geometer, and Mary Tunstall, a geography lecturer. The family moved to Birmingham, and then, when the twins were eight, to London, occasionally spending the summers with their parents in the US, Singapore and Sudan. Dan studied in London at Haberdashers’ Aske’s, then in Hampstead, and Dulwich college.
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