Dr Jeffrey Aronson
Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences; Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College
Talk title: "All the circumstances of the patient". The Edinburgh Medical School—the first 300 years.
Biography: Dr Jeffrey Aronson is a Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in the University of Oxford.
He has written widely about all aspects of clinical pharmacology and about medical history, the philosophy of medicine, and medical language. He writes a weekly BMJ opinion column under the general title “When I Use a Word ….”.
He chairs the British Pharmacopoeia Commission’s Expert Advisory Group on Pharmacy and Nomenclature and is a member of the WHO’s Expert Advisory Panel on International Pharmacopoeia and Pharmaceutical Preparations.
He is President Emeritus, an Honorary Fellow, and immediate past Vice-President Publications of the British Pharmacological Society; an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians; an Honorary Member of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP); and an Emeritus Fellow of Green-Templeton College, Oxford.
