| Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
| James Petrie | |
| Birth Name: | James Colquhoun Petrie |
| Birth Date: | 18 September 1941 |
| Occupation: | Medical doctor |
| Employer: | University of Aberdeen |
James Colquhoun Petrie (18 September 1941 â 31 August 2001) was a Scottish medical doctor, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, from 1985, and Head of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, from 1994 at the University of Aberdeen.[1] [2] [3] [4]
He studied Medicine at Aberdeen University.
A keen skier, in 1976 he founded the Lecht Ski Company. In 1986 he founded the Health Services Research Unit.[4]
In 1996 he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to medicine.
He was president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1997 to 2001.[5]
In 2000 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Charles D. Forbes, Gordon Whitby, Graeme Catto and Laurie Prescott.[6]
He died of glioblastoma on 21 August 2001.
In 1964 he married fellow medical student Xanthe and they had four children.[4]