Nicholas White (physician)

Professor
Sir Nicholas White
KCMG OBE FRS FRCP FMedSci FBPhS
White in 2011.
Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford
Incumbent
Assumed office
1996
Professor of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University
Incumbent
Assumed office
1995
Personal details
Born
Nicholas John White

(1951-03-13) 13 March 1951 (age 73)
OccupationTropical medicine specialist

Sir Nicholas John White (born 13 March 1951) is a British medical doctor and researcher, specializing in tropical medicine in developing countries.[1] He is known for his work on tropical diseases, especially malaria using artemisinin-based combination therapy.[2]

Biography

White studied medicine at the Guy's Hospital Medical School at King's College London. He completed his residency in internal medicine at various hospitals in London and at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Since 1980, he has been part of a scientific collaboration (Mahidol Oxford Research Unit) between the faculty of Mahidol University in Thailand and the Nuffield Department of Medicine of the University of Oxford. Since 1986 he has been the director of this department and has opened similar collaborations with Vietnam (1991) and Laos (1999). These collaborations are dedicated to research on tropical diseases such as malaria, melioidosis,[3] typhoid fever, tetanus, dengue fever, rickettsiosis, and tropical outbreaks of influenza.

White was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1999.[4] He was awarded the GlaxoSmithKline Prize in 2005[5] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.[6] In 2010, White received both the John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award[7] and the Prince Mahidol Award.[8] In 2017 he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG).[9]

White is the author or coauthor of more than 1000 scientific publications. His h-index is 164 (as of May 2018).[10] He is married and has three children and six house chickens.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Farrar, Jeremy; Hotez, Peter J.; Junghaus, Thomas; Kang, Gagandeep; Lalloo, David; White, Nicholas J., eds. (2013). Manson's Tropical Diseases E-Book (23rd ed.). Elsevier Health Sciences. ISBN 9780702053061.
  2. ^ Ashley, Elizabeth A.; et al. (2014). "Spread of artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria". New England Journal of Medicine. 371 (5): 411–423. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1314981. PMC 4143591. PMID 25075834.
  3. ^ White, N. J. (2003). "Melioidosis". The Lancet. 361 (9370): 1715–1722. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13374-0. PMID 12767750. S2CID 208790913.
  4. ^ "Queen's Birthday Honors: The Full List". The Independent. 12 June 1999.
  5. ^ "Award Winners: GlaxoSmithKline Prize". docs.google.com.
  6. ^ "Nicholas White". royalsociety.org.
  7. ^ "Nicholas White". gairdner.org.
  8. ^ "Professor Nicholas J. White, M.D." princemahidolaward.org. Retrieved 18 June 2018.[dead link‍]
  9. ^ "New Year's Honors 2017 - University of Oxford". ox.ac.uk. 31 December 2013.
  10. ^ "Nicholas White - Google Scholar Citations".