MB = Master of Business?

Paul K. Whelton, MB, MD, MSc, member, Board of Directors, Loyola University Health System (LUHS) and Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC). Dr. Whelton joined Loyola University Health System in February 2007 as president and chief executive officer. Most recently, he was senior vice president for health sciences at Tulane University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans as well as dean of Tulane University School of Medicine (Tulane). Dr. Whelton had been both a professor of epidemiology at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and a professor of medicine at Tulane. He joined the faculty at Tulane in January 1997, following 26 years at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore. A native of Cork City, Ireland, Dr. Whelton received his medical degree from the National University of Ireland, University College Cork, and a master of science degree in epidemiology from the University of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He completed residency training in internal medicine and a nephrology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a post-doctoral fellowship in epidemiology at the Medical Research Council Epidemiology and Clinical Care Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, London. Dr. Whelton has conducted a series of groundbreaking studies on the prevention and treatment of hypertension for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the National Institute on Aging. Well-published and a frequent presenter and lecturer at scientific meetings, Dr. Whelton has served as a consultant to numerous national and international health agencies and governments. He joined the LUHS/LUMC board in 2007.

It usually refers to Bachelor of Medicine, and often in conjunction with BS or ChB. In countries where medical students are admitted without previous undergraduate degree, the medical course runs between 5 - 7 years plus 1-2 years of internship. When doctors graduate from these degree programmes, they receive the degree MBChB or MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery). Medical doctors who trained in the UK, most Commonwealth countries and Asia usually carry this title and on a practical level MBChB can be regarded as equivalent to the MD in the US.