Mark Woodhead

Professor Mark Andrew Woodhead FRCP FERS (born 21 December 1954) is a world authority on lung infection and pneumonia.[1][2][3][4] He has been the National Clinical Adviser on pneumonia to the Department of Health since 2010,[1][5] a Consultant in General and Respiratory Medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary since 1992, Honorary Clinical Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Manchester since 2011[1] and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine since 2013.[6]

Early life

Mark Andrew Woodhead was born on 21 December 1954.[7] He was educated at Bedford Modern School and King's College London where he graduated with first class honours in 1976 and was made MBBS in 1979.[8] He was made DM at the University of Nottingham in 1988.[8]

Career

Woodhead started his career as House Officer at King's College Hospital in 1979 before spending five months at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn.[8] He was Senior House Officer at the Nottingham City Hospital and Nottingham General Hospital between 1980 and 1982 before his appointment as Registrar in Medicine at the Nottingham University Hospitals.[8] He was made Senior Registrar of St George's Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital in 1987[8] until his appointment as a Consultant in General and Respiratory Medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1992.[1]

Woodhead is a world authority on lung infection and pneumonia.[1] He is a member of the British Thoracic Society, a Fellow of the European Respiratory Society,[2] a member of the American Thoracic Society,[8] Chairman of the European Respiratory Society’s Lower Respiratory Infection Guidelines Group and a section editor of the European Respiratory Journal.[1][9] He is also a member (and Chairman of the Public Education subcommittee) of the Department of Health Specialist Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance,[1][10] a member of the British Thoracic Society Pneumonia Guidelines Committee and editor of the international textbook Respiratory Infections.[1][11]

Woodhead was made MRCP in 1982 and FRCP in 1996.[8] He was made Honorary Clinical Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Manchester in 2011[1] and Honorary Research Fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 2013.[6]

Selected work
  • Woodhead, Mark (1993). "Guidelines on the management of asthma". Thorax. 48 (2 Suppl): S1–S24. doi:10.1136/thx.48.2_Suppl.S1. OCLC 28012001. PMC 467832.
  • Respiratory Infections. Published by Taylor & Francis, 2006. ISBN 9781282615816

References
  1. Central Manchester University Hospitals Website
  2. Administrator. "All Fellowships – Fellow of ERS (FERS) -". ersnet.org. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  3. Sehgal, N.; Woodhead, M. (2011). "Predicting the unpredictable: Is it possible clinically to separate H1N1 from non-H1N1 community-acquired pneumonia?". Thorax. 66 (3): 187–188. doi:10.1136/thx.2010.157404. PMID 21335459.
  4. Schünemann, Holger J.; Woodhead, Mark; Anzueto, Antonio; Buist, Sonia; MacNee, William; Rabe, Klaus F.; Heffner, John (2009). "A vision statement on guideline development for respiratory disease: The example of COPD". The Lancet. 373 (9665): 774–779. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61347-1. PMID 18835641.
  5. "NICE – Server error". nice.org.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  6. "Honorary appointment for Professor Mark Woodhead". lstmed.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  7. "Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.co.uk". ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  8. "Turkish Thoracic Society 16th Annual Congress". toraks.org.tr. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  9. "ERJ – European Respiratory Journal Editorial Board". ersjournals.com. Archived from the original on 7 June 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  10. Woodhead, Mark; Fleming, Douglas; Wise, Richard (2004). "Antibiotics, resistance, and clinical outcomes". BMJ. 328 (7451): 1270–1271. doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7451.1270. PMC 420154. PMID 15166040.
  11. Mandell, Lionel; Woodhead, Mark; Ewig, Santiago; Torres, Antoni (27 October 2006). Respiratory Infections. google.co.uk. ISBN 9780340816943. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
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