Former professor of medicine and chief of hepatology Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center (b Regina, Canada, 1921; q University of Southern California 1944), d 5 June 2004.
Telfer (Pete) Reynolds forged a link in hepatology between the United States and Britain. In 1952 he arrived at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, to study sodium metabolism in heart disease. He found Sheila Sherlock's liver unit so compelling that he specialised in liver disease. When he returned to the Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center he started a hepatology programme that became internationally famous. He was awarded a gold medal by the Canadian Liver Foundation and a distinguished achievement award by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. He leaves a wife, Kit; two children; and five grandchildren.
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