Former reader in medicine and consultant physician Glasgow (b 1935; q Glasgow 1962; DSc, BSc (Hons), FRCP Glas and London), d 23 November 2001.
From 1970 to 1972, he worked on calcium and vitamin D
metabolism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his insight
into the role of the kidney in vitamin D metabolism proved fundamental.
On his return to Glasgow he set up a clinic for metabolic bone
diseases, which grew to be the largest and most influential in
Scotland. He became reader in the university department of medicine at
Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and in 1994 became visiting
professor
in the department of pharmacology and
physiology at Strathclyde University. His interests were philately, and
postal and social history. He leaves a wife, Elizabeth; three children;
and seven grandchildren.
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