Godfrey Fowler

Godfrey Heath Fowler, OBE, FRCP, FRCGP, FFPH (born 1931) is a retired academic, general practitioner and medical scientist. He was Professor of General Practice at the University of Oxford between 1996 and 1997.

Career

Born in 1931, Fowler attended University College, Oxford, between 1950 and 1954, and was then at University College Hospital in London until 1956, when he graduated with his medical degree (BM BCh). He completed the Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (DObst RCOG) in 1958 and the Diploma in Child Health (DCH) the next year.[1]

Fowler entered general practice in 1959 and worked in Oxford, becoming the college doctor to Balliol College, Oxford, in 1974 (an office he held until 1991). In 1972, he was appointed a World Health Organisation Fellow and in 1978 became a professorial fellow at Balliol and a clinical reader in general practice at the University of Oxford.[1] He was awarded the title of Professor of General Practice in 1996,[2] and retired the following year, retaining an emeritus fellowship at Balliol.[1]

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1989 Birthday Honours.[3] He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (elected in 1996),[1] the Royal College of General Practitioners (elected in 1978)[4] and the Faculty of Public Health.[5]

Publications

References
  1. Tom Bewley and John Jones (eds.), The Balliol College Register, 7th ed. (2005), p. 174.
  2. "Recognition of Distinction", Oxford University Gazette, Supplement (2) to no. 4408, 22 July 1996. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  3. Supplement to the London Gazette, 17 June 1989 (no. 51772), p. B9.
  4. The Medical Directory 1995 (Cattermill), p. 1301.
  5. "Emeritus Fellows", Balliol College, Oxford. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
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