James Petrie

Prof James Colquhoun Petrie CBE FRSE FRCP FRCPE FRCGP FRCPI FFPM FMedSci (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]

For the British chef, see James Petrie (chef).

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

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.[5]

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.[6]

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.[7]

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

Family

In 1964 he married fellow medical student Xanthe and they had four children.[8]

References
  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. 2002. doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7330.174f.
  3. Velasco, M. (2002). "Professor James Colquhoun Petrie, CBE". American Journal of Therapeutics. 9: 83. doi:10.1097/00045391-200201000-00015.
  4. James Colquhoun Petrie. Royal College of Physicians of London (2009)
  5. http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5109
  6. "Prof James Petrie". Herald (Glasgow). 6 September 2001. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  7. 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.
  8. http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5109


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