Graham Beastall is a Clinical Biochemist from Glasgow who has had a longstanding interest in the quality, use and interpretation of laboratory tests of thyroid function. He was a co-author of the UK document on best practice in the use of thyroid function tests.

Graham is currently a member of the international committee that is working on the standardisation of thyroid function tests in order to get better agreement in the results provided by the manufacturers of diagnostic test systems for thyroid function tests.

Graham has served as Committee member for the British Thyroid Association and the Society for Endocrinology. He is currently President of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine.