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ProfessorJames PetrieCBE FRSE FRCP FRCPE FRCGP FRCPI FFPM FMedSci
BornJames Colquhoun Petrie
(1941-09-18)18 September 1941
Died31 August 2001(2001-08-31) (aged 59)
OccupationMedical doctor
EmployerUniversity of Aberdeen

James Colquhoun Petrie (18 September 1941 – 31 August 2001) was a Scottish medical doctor, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, from 1985, and Head of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, from 1994 at the University of Aberdeen.

He studied Medicine at Aberdeen University.

A keen skier, in 1976 he founded the Lecht Ski Company. In 1986 he founded the Health Services Research Unit.

In 1996 he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to medicine.

He was president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1997 to 2001.

In 2000 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Charles D. Forbes, Gordon Whitby, Graeme Catto and Laurie Prescott.

He died of glioblastoma on 21 August 2001.

Academic offices
Preceded byJohn D Cash President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
1997–2001 		Succeeded byNiall Finlayson

Publications

  • Clinical Effects of Interaction Between Drugs (1975)
  • Diagnostic Picture Tests in Clinical Medicine (1984) co-author
  • Blood Pressure Measurement (1997)

Family

In 1964 he married fellow medical student Xanthe and they had four children.

References

  1. "PETRIE, Prof. James Colquhoun" in Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012
  2. "James Colquhoun Petrie". BMJ. 324 (7330): 174f–174. 2002. doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7330.174f. S2CID 220113515.
  3. Velasco, M. (2002). "Professor James Colquhoun Petrie, CBE". American Journal of Therapeutics. 9: 83–84. doi:10.1097/00045391-200201000-00015.
  4. ^ "Inspiring Physicians > James Colquhoun Petrie". history.rcplondon.ac.uk. Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  5. "Prof James Petrie". The Herald. Glasgow. 6 September 2001. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  6. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2017.


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