Professor Frank Woods | |
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Born | Hubert Frank Woods 1937 |
Died | January 2016 (aged 78–79) |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Occupation | Pharmacologist |
Employer | University of Sheffield |
Known for | Clinical and Biochemical Aspects of Lactic Acidosis (1976) [1] [2] Cohen-Woods classification |
Professor Hubert Frank Woods CBE , FRCP , FRCPE , FFPM , FMedSci (1937-2016), known as Frank, was a British pharmacologist.
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]
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