Mark Woodhead

Professor Mark Andrew Woodhead FRCP FERS (born 21 December 1954) is a world authority on lung infection and pneumonia.[1][2][3][4] He has been National Clinical Adviser on pneumonia to the Department of Health since 2010,[1][5] a Consultant in General and Respiratory Medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary since 1992, Honorary Clinical Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Manchester since 2011[1] and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine since 2013.[6]

Early life

Mark Andrew Woodhead was born on 21 December 1954.[7] He was educated at Bedford Modern School and King's College London where he graduated with first class honours in 1976 and was made MBBS in 1979.[8] He was made DM at the University of Nottingham in 1988.[8]

Career

Woodhead started his career as House Officer at King's College Hospital in 1979 before spending five months at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn.[8] He was Senior House Officer at the Nottingham City Hospital and Nottingham General Hospital between 1980 and 1982 before his appointment as Registrar in Medicine at the Nottingham University Hospitals.[8] He was made Senior Registrar of St George’s Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital in 1987[8] until his appointment as a Consultant in General and Respiratory Medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1992.[1]

Woodhead is a world authority on lung infection and pneumonia.[1][9] He is a member of the British Thoracic Society, a Fellow of the European Respiratory Society,[2] a member of the American Thoracic Society,[8] Chairman of the European Respiratory Society’s Lower Respiratory Infection Guidelines Group and a section editor of the European Respiratory Journal.[1][10] He is also a member (and Chairman of the Public Education subcommittee) of the Department of Health Specialist Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance,[1][11] a member of the British Thoracic Society Pneumonia Guidelines Committee and editor of the international textbook Respiratory Infections.[1][12]

Woodhead was made MRCP in 1982 and FRCP in 1996.[8] He was made Honorary Clinical Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Manchester in 2011[1] and Honorary Research Fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 2013.[6]

Selected work

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Central Manchester University Hospitals Website
  2. 1 2 Administrator. "All Fellowships - Fellow of ERS (FERS) -". ersnet.org. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  3. ↑ Nita Sehgal. "Predicting the unpredictable: is it possible clinically to separate H1N1 from non-H1N1 community-acquired pneumonia?". bmj.com. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "DEFINE_ME_WA" (PDF). thelancet.com. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "NICE - Server error". nice.org.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Honorary appointment for Professor Mark Woodhead". lstmed.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.co.uk". ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Turkish Thoracic Society 16th Annual Congress". toraks.org.tr. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  9. ↑ "Pneumonia deaths link to drugs curb". Mail Online. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  10. ↑ "ERJ -- European Respiratory Journal Editorial Board". ersjournals.com. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  11. ↑ "Antibiotics, resistance, and clinical outcomes". PubMed Central (PMC). Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  12. ↑ "Respiratory Infections". google.co.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  13. ↑ "Guidelines on the management of asthma". worldcat.org. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  14. ↑ "Respiratory Infections". worldcat.org. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
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