Reginald Hall (endocrinologist)
Reginald Hall
endocrinologist known for his expertise in thyroid
disease.
Biography
Hall was born in 1931 in
University of Durham. He graduated from Durham with a BSc in physiology in 1953, followed by an MBBS in 1956 and MD in 1963. He married Joan Scott Patterson, a teacher, in 1955, and they had a daughter in 1958. Joan died shortly afterwards, and Hall remarried to Molly Hill, a medical doctor, in 1960; they had four children together.[1]
Hall spent the majority of his medical career at the
University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was promoted to a professor of medicine in 1970.[2] His research involved assays for measuring thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), regulation of TSH secretion, and the causes of autoimmune thyroid disease (particularly Graves' disease).[1][2]
In 1980, Hall left Newcastle for
Hall was appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 for services to medicine, and later received an honorary MD from the University of Wales. He served as president of the Royal Society of Medicine's endocrine section and was an active member of the European Thyroid Association. He died in 1994 from complications of amyloidosis at the University Hospital of Wales.[1]
References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54990. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c Evered, D.C. "Reginald Hall". Munk's Roll. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
- ^ a b Scanlon, Maurice (2 August 1994). "Obituary: Professor Reginald Hall". The Independent. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
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