Ronald Girdwood

Professor
Ronald Girdwood
CBE FRSE FRCP FRCPE FRCPI FRCPath
Professor Ronald Girdwood CBE FRSE FRCP FRCPE FRCPI FRCPath
Personal details
Born	Ronald Haxton Girdwood; 19 March 1917
Died	25 April 2006 (aged 89)
Occupation	Physician

Ronald Haxton Girdwood (19 March 1917 – 25 April 2006) was a Scottish physician, Professor of Therapeutics at the University of Edinburgh and a President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.^[1]^[2]^[3] He undertook research into megaloblastic anaemia and was awarded a gold medal for his MD thesis. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1975 to 1982 and oversaw the expansion of the medical school. He was a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines.^[4] He was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh in 1953^[5] and was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club in 1965.^[6] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1978 and awarded a CBE in 1985.^[4]

Academic offices
Preceded by John Anderson Strong	President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1982–1985	Succeeded by Michael Francis Oliver

References

^ "Munks Roll Details for Ronald Haxton Girdwood". Munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
^ ‘GIRDWOOD, Prof. Ronald Haxton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 7 April 2014
^ Drife, D.; Drife, J. (17 August 2006). "Obituary: Ronald Girdwood". BMJ. 333 (7564): 400. doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7564.400. PMC 1550441.
^ ^a ^b Finlayson, NDC (2013). "Ronald Haxton Girdwood". J R C Physicians Edin. 43 (1): 93. doi:10.4997/JRCPE.2013.121. PMID 23631006.
^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
^ Minute Books of the Aesculapian Club. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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