1. Sir Michael David Rawlins was a British clinical pharmacologist and emeritus professor at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
17 Facts About Michael Rawlins
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Michael Rawlins was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire on 28 March 1941.
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Michael Rawlins's father was the Reverend Jack Rawlins, vicar of Northwood-on-Trent in Staffordshire, and his mother was Evelyn Daphne Douglas-Hamilton who following the death of his father later married a general practitioner.
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Michael Rawlins attended Uppingham School, Rutland, with David Li and left there in 1959.
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Michael Rawlins obtained his medical degree from St Thomas' Hospital in 1965.
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Michael Rawlins completed his house jobs in 1967; firstly, in surgery at St Thomas' and then in medicine at Portsmouth.
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Michael Rawlins was a member of the Committee on Toxicity from 1989 to 1992, and the Standing Group on Health Technology Assessment from 1993 to 1995.
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Michael Rawlins was chair of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence from its foundation in 1999 until April 2013.
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Michael Rawlins delivered several eponymous lectures at the RCP, including the Bradshaw Lecture in 1986.
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The lecture called for abandoning hierarchy of evidence at a time when Michael Rawlins headed NICE, the UK's main independent agency whose purpose was to assess scientific evidence of medical treatments.
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Michael Rawlins pointed out that science includes the not so exact but important "judgement".
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Michael Rawlins became a Fellow of the RCP London in 1977, and 10 years later became Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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Michael Rawlins gained Fellowship of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine in 1989 and of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998.
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Michael Rawlins was awarded the Hutchinson Medal in 2003, and the Galen Medal in 2010.
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Michael Rawlins was knighted in the 1999 New Year Honours for services to the improvement of patient protection from the side-effects of medicines, and was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to the safety of medicines, healthcare, and innovation.
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Michael Rawlins died in Darlington from sepsis and heart failure on 1 January 2023, at the age of 81.
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Michael Rawlins is survived by his daughters Vicky, Lucy, and Suzannah, and eight grandchildren.