Obituary: Professor John Henry, MBBS, FRCP, FFAEM (1939–2007)
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Correspondence: Allister Vale allistervale@npis.org
National Poisons Information Service (Birmingham Unit) and West Midlands Poisons Unit, City Hospital, Birmingham, B18 7QH, UK
Critical Care 2008, 12:101 doi:10.1186/cc6196
Published: 11 January 2008First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
John Henry was educated at St Joseph's Academy at Blackheath in London and qualified MBBS from King's College Hospital, London in 1965. He obtained the MRCP (UK) Diploma in 1974 and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1986. He was appointed as Consultant Physician to the Poisons Unit at Guy's Hospital in 1982 and continued in that role until he became Professor of Accident and Emergency Medicine at Imperial College, London in 1997. He retired in September 2004 but continued to be active in medico-legal and media work until his untimely death on May 8, 2007.