Michael Rawlins
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Born | 28 March 1941 |
Died | 1 January 2023 | (aged 81)
Education |
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Medical career | |
Profession | University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
Chair of Committee on Safety of Medicines | |
In office 1993–1998 | |
Chair of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence | |
In office 1999–2013 | |
Chair of UK Biobank | |
In office 2012 – December 2019 | |
Chair of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency | |
In office 1 December 2014 – September 2020 | |
Sir Michael David Rawlins
Rawlins delivered several eponymous lectures during his medical career including the 2008
Early life and education
Michael Rawlins was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire on 28 March 1941.[1][2] His father was the Reverend Jack Rawlins, vicar of Northwood-on-Trent in Staffordshire, and his mother was Evelyn Daphne Douglas-Hamilton who following the death of his father later married a general practitioner.[3] He attended Uppingham School, Rutland, with David Li and left there in 1959.[4] In 1962 he graduated first class from University of London.[5] He obtained his medical degree from St Thomas' Hospital in 1965.[6]
Career
Rawlins completed his
From 1977 to 1983 he was a member of the National Committee on Pharmacology.[2] In 1980 he became a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines and was appointed its chairman in 1993; a position he retained until 1998.[2] He was a member of the Committee on Toxicity from 1989 to 1992, and the Standing Group on Health Technology Assessment from 1993 to 1995.[2] In 1998, he was appointed chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and served it until 2008.[7]
Rawlins was chair of the
In 2010, he helped establish the
Eponymous lectures
Rawlins delivered several eponymous lectures at the RCP, including the Bradshaw Lecture in 1986.[15] In 1994 he gave the RCP's William Withering lecture.[16] In it, contrary to the widely held belief that digitalis would unlikely pass modern day licensing regulations, he said of Withering's 1785 An account of the foxglove and some of its medical uses ... "Its contents would do justice to an expert report accompanying a Product Licence application to the drug regulatory authority of any state in the European Union".[16] In 2006 he gave the RCP'S Samuel Gee Lecture.[15]
De Testimonio
In his 2008
The notion that evidence can be reliably placed in hierarchies is illusory. Decision makers need to assess and appraise all the available evidence irrespective of whether it has been derived from randomized controlled trials or observational studies; and the strengths and weaknesses of each need to be understood if reasonable and reliable conclusions are to be drawn.[20]
According to philosopher
Honours and awards
Rawlins became a Fellow of the RCP London in 1977, and 10 years later became Fellow of the
He was awarded the Hutchinson Medal in 2003, and the Galen Medal in 2010.[21] In 2012 he received the Prince Mahidol Award for his contribution to medicine.[22] Zenith Global Health awarded him their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.[23]
Rawlins was
Personal and family
In 1963 he married Elizabeth Hambly, a nurse; they divorced in 2005.[1] In 1981 he became the first chairman of the Newcastle upon Tyne SDP and played an active part in the founding and development of the new party.
Death
Rawlins died in Darlington from
Selected publications
Articles
- Rawlins, MD (12 October 1974). "Variability in Response to Drugs". British Medical Journal. 4 (5936): 91–94. PMID 4607336.
- Rawlins, MD. (June 1986). "Spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions". The Quarterly Journal of Medicine. 59 (230): 531–534. PMID 3749447.
- Rawlins, MD (January 1995). "Pharmacovigilance: paradise lost, regained or postponed? The William Withering Lecture 1994". Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 29 (1): 41–9. PMID 7738878.
- Rawlins, MD (December 2008). "De Testimonio: on the evidence for decisions about the use of therapeutic interventions". Clinical Medicine. 8 (6): 579–588. PMID 19149278.
Books
- Smith, Stephen Edward; Rawlins, Michael David (1976). Variability in Human Drug Response. Butterworths. ISBN 978-0-407-43301-4.
- Delivering Quality in the NHS 2005. Radcliffe Publishing. 2005. ISBN 978-1-85775-742-2.
- Therapeutics, Evidence and Decision-Making. CRC Press. 2011. ISBN 978-1-85315-947-3.
References
- ^ a b Ferry, Georgina (10 January 2023). "Sir Michael Rawlins obituary". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 12 January 2023. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
- ^ ISBN 978-085484-118-9.
- ^ S2CID 255441025.
- ^ "Who, what, where". OU Magazine (42): 6. 2014–2015. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f "Written statement of Sir Michael Rawlins". Infected blood enquiry, 24 March 2022
- ^ "Prof Sir Michael Rawlins – 2011 – Jewish medical association". jewishmedicalassociationuk.org. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ a b c "Tributes paid following the death of founding NICE chairman Professor Sir Mike Rawlins | News | News". NICE. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ISBN 0-415-33671-6.
- S2CID 205959363.
- ^ "Staff Profile - Executive and Governance Office - Newcastle University". www.ncl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ^ "Obituary: Professor Sir Michael Rawlins". The Royal Society of Medicine. Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ "UK medicines regulator appoints Michael Rawlins as chairman". The Pharmaceutical Journal. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society. 2 November 2014. Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ^ "Professor Sir Michael Rawlins appointed Chair of Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency" (Press release). Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. 3 November 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ "Professor Sir Michael Rawlins re-appointed Chair - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. 8 August 2017. Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-86016-347-0.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-86016-292-3.
- S2CID 245224872.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-470-03235-0.
- PMID 23294526.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-873261-7.
- ^ "Intra-Cellular Therapies Appoints Professor Sir Michael Rawlins to its Board of Director". 14 March 2013. Archived from the original on 7 January 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
- ^ "The Annoucement [sic] for the Prince Mahidol Award 2012 | Royal Thai Embassy in Prague". thaiembassy.cz. Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ "Sir. Michael Rawlins To Receive Lifetime Achievements Award at Zenith Global Health 2019 – Zenith Global Awards". 3 August 2019. Archived from the original on 5 January 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ "No. 61962". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2017. p. B7.
- ^ Volpe, Sam (5 January 2023). "Tributes to North East 'medical hero' who fought to protect patients". ChronicleLive. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
Further reading
- Rawlins, M. (October 2000). "Professor Sir Michael Rawlins--chairman of NICE. National Institute of Clinical Excellence. Interviewed by Sue Silver". The Lancet. Oncology. 1: 113–117. PMID 11905663.
External links
- Interview on Cancer Research UK's science update blog (Cancer research UK)
- "NIH indexed articles authored by M Rawlins". PubMed. Retrieved 30 July 2011.