In 1983, the epidemiologist and author Tim Spector moved to Brussels for a year for a secondment, as part of a European Medical Rotation Scheme. He was transferred from his role as a junior doctor at St Bartholomew’s hospital in London to Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc. It was there that Tim met Veronique Bataille, who was then a student.
“I was in my penultimate year of medical school in Brussels,” says Veronique. She first spotted Tim in a meeting where hundreds of different specialists gathered to present and discuss complex cases. He was among those who had been asked to present.
