Owen Wade (physician)
Professor Owen Wade | |
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| Born | Owen Lyndon Wade 17 May 1921 |
| Died | 10 December 2008 (aged 87) |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
Owen Lyndon Wade CBE FRCP (1921-2008) was a British medical researcher and academic, described by the Royal College of Physicians as "one of the founding fathers of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics in the UK".[1]
Wade was born in Penarth, South Wales, on 17 May 1921, to Katie Jones and James Owen David Wade, the latter a surgeon.[1]
He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and University College, London,[1] and subsequently worked as a clinical assistant at the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit from 1948 to 1951.[2] He was pointed as a lecturer in medicine at the University of Birmingham in 1951, rising to Senior Lecturer.[2] In 1957, he became Whitla Professor of Therapeutics and Pharmacology at Queen's University, Belfast.[2] In 1971 he returned to Birmingham, in the post of Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, from which he retired in 1986.[2] He was also dean of Birmingham Medical School from 1978 to 1984.[2] Immediately on appointment he had to deal with the aftermath of a smallpox outbreak there.[1] He oversaw the modernisation and 1981 relaunch of the British National Formulary.[3]
Wade's autobiography was published in 1986.[2] He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1983 Birthday Honours.[4]
He died on 10 December 2008.[1]
Bibliography
[edit]- When I Dropped the Knife. Pentland Press. 1996.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Munks Roll Details for Owen Lyndon Wade". Munks Roll. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f Andy Ness; Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2002). Population-based Research in South Wales: The MRC Pneumoconiosis Research Unit and the MRC Epidemiology Unit. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-081-6. OL 16407718M. Wikidata Q29581659.
- ^ Kendall, Martin (4 March 2009). "Owen Lyndon Wade". BMJ. 338 (3). British Medical Journal: 468–469. doi:10.1136/bmj.b848. PMC 2766489. PMID 19740407.
- ^ United Kingdom list: "No. 49375". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 June 1983. pp. 1–28.
External links
[edit]- Owen Wade on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website
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