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James Petrie

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James Petrie
Born
James Colquhoun Petrie

(1941-09-18)18 September 1941
Died31 August 2001(2001-08-31) (aged 59)
OccupationMedical doctor
EmployerUniversity of Aberdeen

James Colquhoun Petrie (18 September 1941 – 31 August 2001) was a Scottish medical doctor, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, from 1985, and Head of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, from 1994 at the University of Aberdeen.[1][2][3][4]

He studied Medicine at Aberdeen University.

A keen skier, in 1976 he founded the Lecht Ski Company. In 1986 he founded the Health Services Research Unit.[4]

In 1996 he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to medicine.

He was president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1997 to 2001.[5]

In 2000 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Charles D. Forbes, Gordon Whitby, Graeme Catto and Laurie Prescott.[6]

He died of glioblastoma on 21 August 2001.

Academic offices
Preceded by
John D Cash
President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
1997–2001
Succeeded by
Niall Finlayson

Publications

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  • Clinical Effects of Interaction Between Drugs (1975)
  • Diagnostic Picture Tests in Clinical Medicine (1984) co-author
  • Blood Pressure Measurement (1997)

Family

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In 1964 he married fellow medical student Xanthe and they had four children.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "PETRIE, Prof. James Colquhoun" in Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012
  2. ^ "James Colquhoun Petrie". BMJ. 324 (7330): 174f–174. 2002. doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7330.174f. S2CID 220113515.
  3. ^ Velasco, M. (2002). "Professor James Colquhoun Petrie, CBE". American Journal of Therapeutics. 9: 83–84. doi:10.1097/00045391-200201000-00015.
  4. ^ a b c "Inspiring Physicians > James Colquhoun Petrie". history.rcplondon.ac.uk. Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  5. ^ "Prof James Petrie". The Herald. Glasgow. 6 September 2001. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  6. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2017.