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 the 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

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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

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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] 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][9] He is also a member (and Chairman of the Public Education subcommittee) of the Department of Health Specialist Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance,[1][10] a member of the British Thoracic Society Pneumonia Guidelines Committee and editor of the international textbook Respiratory Infections.[1][11]

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

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  • Woodhead, Mark (1993). "Guidelines on the management of asthma". Thorax. 48 (2 Suppl): S1–S24. doi:10.1136/thx.48.2_Suppl.S1. OCLC 28012001. PMC 467832. PMID 8322228.
  • Respiratory Infections. Published by Taylor & Francis, 2006. ISBN 9781282615816

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Central Manchester University Hospitals Website
  2. ^ a b Administrator. "All Fellowships – Fellow of ERS (FERS) -". ersnet.org. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  3. ^ Sehgal, N.; Woodhead, M. (2011). "Predicting the unpredictable: Is it possible clinically to separate H1N1 from non-H1N1 community-acquired pneumonia?". Thorax. 66 (3): 187–188. doi:10.1136/thx.2010.157404. PMID 21335459.
  4. ^ Schünemann, Holger J.; Woodhead, Mark; Anzueto, Antonio; Buist, Sonia; MacNee, William; Rabe, Klaus F.; Heffner, John (2009). "A vision statement on guideline development for respiratory disease: The example of COPD". The Lancet. 373 (9665): 774–779. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61347-1. PMID 18835641. S2CID 31942725.
  5. ^ "NICE – Server error". nice.org.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Honorary appointment for Professor Mark Woodhead". lstmed.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  7. ^ "Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.co.uk". ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g "Turkish Thoracic Society 16th Annual Congress". toraks.org.tr. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  9. ^ "ERJ – European Respiratory Journal Editorial Board". ersjournals.com. Archived from the original on 7 June 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  10. ^ Woodhead, Mark; Fleming, Douglas; Wise, Richard (2004). "Antibiotics, resistance, and clinical outcomes". BMJ. 328 (7451): 1270–1271. doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7451.1270. PMC 420154. PMID 15166040.
  11. ^ Mandell, Lionel; Woodhead, Mark; Ewig, Santiago; Torres, Antoni (27 October 2006). Respiratory Infections. ISBN 9780340816943. Retrieved 19 July 2015.