Consultant physician and nephrologist the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough (b London 1943; q Cambridge/St Thomas's Hospital, London, 1968; MD, FRCP, FRCP Ed), died from metastatic prostate cancer on 3 February 2004.
Figure 1.
After junior posts in London and Dorset, Rod became senior registrar in renal medicine at Nottingham City Hospital, where he carried out research into analgesic nephropathy. He was appointed consultant in Middlesbrough in 1978. The James Cook University Hospital (JCUH) was then being built and Rod joined its commissioning team. He became chief of medicine and then associate medical director. He helped develop undergraduate medical training on Teesside and became honorary professor at Durham University in 2002. He headed the academic division at JCUH and saw completion of the academic centre and its library, named after him, a few weeks before he died. He leaves a wife, Jackie; three daughters; and a grandson.
Supplementary Material
Longer versions of these obituaries are available on bmj.com
Associated Data
This section collects any data citations, data availability statements, or supplementary materials included in this article.
