John Low Reid (born 1943) is a British

clinical pharmacologist Pharmacology is the science of drugs and medications, including a substance's origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, therapeutic use, and toxicology. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between ...

. Reid graduated in medicine from the

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, then completed his training in clinical pharmacology at the

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, where he was subsequently a senior lecturer and reader. He also undertook a Medical Research Council travelling fellowship to the United States'

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. He became Regius professor of materia medica and therapeutics at the

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in 1978, changing to being Regius chair of medicine and head of the department of medicine and therapeutics, in 1989. He has served as president of the

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; of the British Society of Hypertension; and of European Society of Hypertension. He was made an

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(OBE) in the

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* 1943 births Place of birth missing (living people) Officers of the Order of the British Empire Living people Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Alumni of the University of Oxford Academics of the University of Glasgow Regius Professors Clinical pharmacologists {{UK-med-bio-stub