Professor Mark Andrew Woodhead FRCP FERS (born 21 December 1954) is a world authority on lung infection and pneumonia.[1] [2] [3] [4] He has been the National Clinical Adviser on pneumonia to the Department of Health since 2010,[1] [5] a Consultant in General and Respiratory Medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary since 1992, Honorary Clinical Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Manchester since 2011[1] and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine since 2013.[6]
Mark Andrew Woodhead was born on 21 December 1954.[7] He was educated at Bedford Modern School and King's College London where he graduated with first class honours in 1976 and was made MBBS in 1979.[8] He was made DM at the University of Nottingham in 1988.[8]
Woodhead started his career as House Officer at King's College Hospital in 1979 before spending five months at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn.[8] He was Senior House Officer at the Nottingham City Hospital and Nottingham General Hospital between 1980 and 1982 before his appointment as Registrar in Medicine at the Nottingham University Hospitals.[8] He was made Senior Registrar of St George's Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital in 1987[8] until his appointment as a Consultant in General and Respiratory Medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1992.[1]
Woodhead is a world authority on lung infection and pneumonia.[1] He is a member of the British Thoracic Society, a Fellow of the European Respiratory Society,[2] a member of the American Thoracic Society,[8] Chairman of the European Respiratory Society’s Lower Respiratory Infection Guidelines Group and a section editor of the European Respiratory Journal.[1] [9] He is also a member (and Chairman of the Public Education subcommittee) of the Department of Health Specialist Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance,[1] [10] a member of the British Thoracic Society Pneumonia Guidelines Committee and editor of the international textbook Respiratory Infections.[1] [11]
Woodhead was made MRCP in 1982 and FRCP in 1996.[8] He was made Honorary Clinical Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Manchester in 2011[1] and Honorary Research Fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 2013.[6]