Lawrence Eccles Ramsay

Background

Ramsay, Lawrence Eccles was born on June 11, 1943 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Son of William and Margaret Cables (Eccles) Ramsay.

Education

Student, Cumnock Academy, Ayrshire, Scotland, 1961. Bachelor of Medicine, University Glasgow, 1966.

Career

Surgeon Lieutenant, Royal Navy, 1967-1972; research fellow, Searle Labs, U. Glasgow, Scotland, 1972-1976; lecturer medicine, U. Glasgow, Scotland, 1976-1978; senior lecturer medicine, U. Sheffield, United Kingdom, 1978-1985; reader in medicine, U. Sheffield, United Kingdom, 1985-1990; professor medicine, U. Sheffield, United Kingdom, since 1990. Consultant physician Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, since 1978. Director Sheffield Hypertension Clinic, since 1978.

Expert advisory British National Formulary, London, since 1987.

Achievements

• Lawrence Eccles Ramsay has been listed as a noteworthy Clinical pharmacologist, consultant by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member British Pharmacopoeia Commission, Medicines Control Agency, London, since 1978, committee review medicines, 1981-1991, commission on pharmacovigilance, since 1990. Advisory Chief Medical Officer, Department Health, London, since 1992. Member British Hypertension Society (vice president since 1996), British Pharmaceutical Society, European Network Therapeutics Teachers, Royal College Physicians London, International Society Hypertension.

Interests

• Avocations: travel, watching soccer.

Connections

Married Mary Helen Hynd Ramsay, September 17, 1964. Children: Helen Mary, William David, Alan Hynd, Iain Lawrence.

Father:

William Ramsay

Mother:

Margaret Cables (Eccles) Ramsay

Spouse:

Mary Helen Hynd Ramsay

child:

Iain Lawrence Ramsay

child:

William David Ramsay

child:

Alan Hynd Ramsay

child:

Helen Mary Ramsay