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Robin Briant
Robin Helen Briant (born 1939) is a New Zealand doctor and clinical pharmacologist. In 1994 she was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to the medical profession. She was awarded a New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal and a New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal. Early life and education Briant was born in Gisborne and grew up on a farm in Patutahi, as one of five children of Amy Helen and Stanley Daynton Briant. She attended Patutahi Primary School and Iona College in Havelock North. Briant graduated from high school in 1957 and worked as a laboratory technician for several years. Briant gained her medical degree at the University of Otago in 1965, and then worked as a house surgeon and a locum GP in Auckland. She passed her exams for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians at the beginning of 1969 and travelled to England, where she gained membership with the Royal College of Physicians. She was then offered a Wellcome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function. If substances have medicinal properties, they are considered pharmaceuticals. The field encompasses drug composition and properties, functions, sources, synthesis and drug design, molecular and cellular mechanisms, organ/systems mechanisms, signal transduction/cellular communication, molecular diagnostics, interactions, chemical biology, therapy, and medical applications and antipathogenic capabilities. The two main areas of pharmacology are pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Pharmacodynamics studies the effects of a drug on biological systems, and pharmacokinetics studies the effects of biological systems on a drug. In broad terms, pharmacodynamics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
