Professor Owen Wade | |
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Born | Owen Lyndon Wade 17 May 1921 |
Died | 10 December 2008 | (aged 87)
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Owen Lyndon Wade CBE FRCP (1921-2008) was a British medical researcher and academic, described by the Royal College of Physicians as "one of the founding fathers of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics in the UK". [1]
Wade was born in Penarth, South Wales, on 17 May 1921, to Katie Jones and James Owen David Wade, the latter a surgeon. [1]
He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and University College, London, [1] and subsequently worked as a clinical assistant at the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit from 1948 to 1951. [2] He was pointed as a lecturer in medicine at the University of Birmingham in 1951, rising to Senior Lecturer. [2] In 1957, he became Whitla Professor of Therapeutics and Pharmacology at Queen's University, Belfast. [2] In 1971 he returned to Birmingham, in the post of Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, from which he retired in 1986. [2] He was also dean of Birmingham Medical School from 1978 to 1984. [2] Immediately on appointment he had to deal with the aftermath of a smallpox outbreak there. [1] He oversaw the modernisation and 1981 relaunch of the British National Formulary. [3]
Wade's autobiography was published in 1986. [2] He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1983 Birthday Honours. [4]
He died on 10 December 2008. [1]