Background
OPIE, Lionel was born on May 6, 1933 in Hanover, South America Son of Professor William Henry Opie and Marie Opie (nee Le Roux).
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Lionel Henry OPIE
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Diocesan College, Rondebosch, Cape Town, University of Cape Town, Oxford University, England.
Career
Assistant in Medicine, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Samuel A. Levine Fellow in Cardiology, Harvard Medical School 1960-1961. Assistant Resident in Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, Canada 1961-1962. Consultant Physician, Karl Bremer Hospital and University of Stellenbosch, South America
OutPatient Assistant Physician, Radcliffe Infirmary, Wellcome Research Fellow, Department, of Biochemistry, Oxford University 1964-1966.
Participant-Time Registrar, Hammersmith Hospital, London 1966-1967. Research Fellow, Department, of Biochemistry, Imperial College, London 1966-1968.
Senior Registrar in Medicine (Cardiology), Hammersmith Hospital 1967-1969, Consultant in Medicine 1969. Senior Specialist Physician, Groote Schuur Hospital 1971.
Association Professor, of Medicine, University of Cape Town 1975, Director Medical Research Council Research Unit for Ischaemic Heart Disease 1976, Personal Chair in Medicine, Professor, of Medicine 1980.
Director Hypertension Clinic 1979. President Southern Africa Cardiac Society 1980-1982. Chairman Council on Cardiac Metabolism, Institute Society and Federation Cardiology 1980.
President Southern Africa Hypertension Society 1986.
Chairman Committee Cardiovascular Drugs, Institute Society and Federation Cardiology 1990.
Membership
British Cardiac Society, Physiological Society (United Kingdom), South America Societies of Cardiology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Hypertension, Institute Hypertension Society.
Connections
Married Carol June Sancroft Baker in 1969.
