Frank Woods (pharmacologist)

Professor Hubert Frank Woods CBE, FRCP, FRCPE, FFPM, FMedSci (1937-2016), known as Frank, was a British pharmacologist.

Professor
Frank Woods
Born
Hubert Frank Woods

1937 (1937)
DiedJanuary 2016 (aged 78–79)
NationalityUnited Kingdom
OccupationPharmacologist
EmployerUniversity of Sheffield
Known forClinical and Biochemical Aspects of Lactic Acidosis (1976)[1][2]
Cohen-Woods classification

He was appointed professor of pharmacology and therapeutics at the University of Sheffield in 1976.[3] In 1989 he became Sir George Franklin professor of medicine and was made the University's director of the division of clinical sciences (south).[3] He was dean of the faculty of medicine there from 1988 to 1998.[3]

He served as chair of the General Medical Council's Health Committee, and sat on the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment, and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2001 Birthday Honours, for services to the latter.[4]

He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998,[5] a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine.[3]

He died in January 2016.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Williams, Roger (25 September 1976). "Review of Clinical and Biochemical Aspects of Lactic Acidosis by R. D. Cohen and H. F. Woods". Br Med J. 2 (6038): 762. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.6038.762-c. PMC 1688799.
  2. ^ Baron, D. N. (January 1977). "Review of Clinical and Biochemical Aspects of Lactic Acidosis". J Clin Pathol. 30 (1): 92. doi:10.1136/jcp.30.1.92-d. PMC 476665.
  3. ^ a b c d Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2008). Clinical Pharmacology in the UK, c. 1950-2000: Influences and institutions. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-117-2. OL 27024688M. Wikidata Q29581757.
  4. ^ "No. 56237". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 16 June 2001. p. 9.
  5. ^ a b "Deceased Fellows". Academy of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
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