Malcolm VandenBurg is a British doctor involved in
drug research
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,
sexual health
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,
medicolegal advice and
stress
Stress may refer to:
Science and medicine
* Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition
* Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word, or to a word in a phra ...
management.
Medical career
VandenBurg qualified in St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1973 with a BSc in Physiology.
He lectured in medicine, as an Honorary Senior Registrar at the
London Hospital
The Royal London Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is part of Barts Health NHS Trust. It provides district general hospital services for the City of London and London Borough of Tow ...
and as an Honorary Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology at
St Bartholomew's Hospital
St Bartholomew's Hospital, commonly known as Barts, is a teaching hospital located in the City of London. It was founded in 1123 by Rahere, and is currently run by Barts Health NHS Trust.
History
Early history
Barts was founded in 1123 by ...
VandenBurg is a Fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians
The Royal College of Physicians of London, commonly referred to simply as the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of ph ...
, the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and the
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine
The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine (FPM) is a faculty of the three Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (the Royal College of Physicians London, the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians and ...
He established the London Hospital Hypertension Clinic in 1975.
Research
VandenBurg was director of cardiovascular research, Old Church Hospital Romford (1984–1996) and director of clinical research at
Merck Sharpe & Dohme (1980–1984)
In 1996 he was appointed president and chief executive officer of global research consultancy IBRD – Rostrum Inc.
VandenBurg has coordinated drug development programmes for over 30 pharmaceutical products and has over 100 publications in the field of clinical research.
Medicolegal Work
VandenBurg is a registered expert witness
who has given medicolegal advice to courts, authorities and media in a number of high-profile cases.
He has written in the
BMJ
''The BMJ'' is a fortnightly peer-reviewed medical journal, published by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, which in turn is wholly-owned by the British Medical Association (BMA). ''The BMJ'' has editorial freedom from the BMA. It is one of the world' ...
about the medicolegal implications of newer
SSRIs
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are a class of drugs that are typically used as antidepressants in the treatment of major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, and other psychological conditions.
SSRIs primarily work by blo ...
and of driving while under the influence of
cannabis
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VandenBurg was an expert witness in the case of the
Death of Sean Rigg in police custody in 2008.
[ He also advised the Northern Ireland Prisoner Ombudsman on the deaths of Aaron Hogg in Maghaberry Prison in 2011.]propofol
Propofol is the active component of an intravenous anesthetic formulation used for induction and maintenance of general anesthesia. It is chemically termed 2,6-diisopropylphenol. The formulation was approved under the brand name Diprivan. Nu ...
in the Death of Michael Jackson
On June 25, 2009, the American singer Michael Jackson died of acute propofol intoxication in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 50. His personal physician, Conrad Murray, said that he found Jackson in his bedroom at his North Carolwood Dr ...
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Books
*''Positive Under Pressure'' jointly authored with Gael Lindenfield, published by Avenue Books (24 April 2006)
*''Dilemmas and Solutions in Global Drug Development'', published by Brookwood Medical Publications (January 2003)
*''Good Clinical Practice for Investigators'', ROSTRUM Publications (July 1990)
References
External links
Malcolm VandenBurg Official site
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Living people
20th-century English medical doctors
Year of birth missing (living people)