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Sir Abraham Goldberg

FRSE (7 December 1923 – 1 September 2007) was a British physician who was a Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. He was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh
.

Early life

Sir Abraham (Abe) Goldberg was born in

Jewish immigrant parents from Lithuania and Ukraine.[1]

Career

After junior hospital medical posts and

haem and its relation to the disease porphyria. After a year and a half spent on an Eli Lilly travelling fellowship in Salt Lake City with the haematologist Max Wintrobe,[2]

Goldberg returned to Scotland in 1956. He obtained his MD from the University of Edinburgh at this time, with his thesis Acute intermittent porphyria,[3] and began working as a lecturer in medicine in the Department of Medicine of the University of Glasgow, where he was to spend the remainder of his professional career.[4]

The mid-1960s saw him being awarded

DSc and securing a Personal Chair in the Department of Medicine, Western Infirmary, University of Glasgow. As editor of the Scottish Medical Journal in 1962-63, he presided over the initiation of a special series on Scottish medical education which was published in book form in April 1963. Subsequent to this, over the next 20 years, he made contributions to the development of medical education through, for example, the production of a bedside teaching manual for medical students (known as "the green book"), the production of a clinical examination slide-tape series (with Albert Yeung), and a major paper on the future of Scottish medical education in the Health Bulletin, in addition to his bedside teaching, lectures and supervision of students undertaking postgraduate degrees.[5]

He became a world authority on

Materia Medica, Stobhill Hospital in 1970, succeeding Stanley Alstead. He built up the Department of Materia Medica and supervised Brian Whiting, later to be Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, in the development of a drug interaction disc which ultimately was distributed to all practising doctors in the UK.[6]

This activity, together with other work on

Committee on the Safety of Medicines and the Founding Presidency of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK. His work on lead poisoning, an interest of his in the 1960s, continued while at Stobhill Hospital and he was an influential figure in promoting a safer, lead-free water supply to the people of Glasgow. In 1974, he was responsible for establishing the West of Scotland Alcohol Research Group; he was interested in research associated with alcohol and, indeed, he was also a former member of the Scottish Council on Alcoholism.[1]

In 1978, following the death of Graeme Wilson, he was appointed to the Regius Chair of the Practice of Medicine, Western Infirmary, Glasgow. A year later he was invited to chair the UK Government's Committee on the Safety of Medicines.

In 1982, he was knighted for services to medicine.[7]

Personal life

He married Clarice Cussin in 1957, with whom he had three children; Richard (Professor of Law at Durham University), David (Professor of Public Health at Glasgow Caledonian University) and Jennifer.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Obituary - Sir Abraham Goldberg". The Herald. 9 October 2007. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Sir Abraham Goldberg, FRCP Edin". Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. RCPE. 11 September 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  3. ^ Goldberg, Abraham (1956). Acute intermittent porphyria: a clinical and experimental study of the disease and of related aspects of porphyrin metabolism.
  4. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/99155. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  5. ^ "Obituary - Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg - Physician, scientist and academic" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. 19 May 2008. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  6. PMC 2043451
    .
  7. ^ "Obituary - Abraham Goldberg". The Times. 17 October 2007.

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