Andrew Wakefield is an infamous British physician and academic who was found guilty of serious professional misconduct for his role in the Lancet MMR autism fraud and was struck off the UK Medical Register. He served as a surgeon on the liver transplant programme at the Royal Free Hospital, London and as senior lecturer and honorary consultant in experimental gastroenterology at the Royal Free and University College School of Medicine. He got involved in the Lancet MMR autism fraud that centred on a 1998 published study which falsely claimed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism spectrum disorders. It was published in the reputed medical journal, The Lancet, and gained widespread publicity leading to a sharp decline in vaccination rate resulting in increase in incidence of measles and mumps. When other researchers failed to reproduce his findings and The Sunday Times reporter Brian Deer’s investigation suggested undisclosed financial conflicts of interest on Wakefield, most of his co-authors retracted this interpretation and an inquiry was conducted by the British General Medical Council. Wakefield was struck off the UK medical register and prohibited from practising medicine in the UK after he was found to have acted unethically in conducting the research and against the best interest of his patients apart from mistreating developmentally delayed children. He later became known for anti-vaccination activism.