James Underwood

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Sir Professor James Cressee Elphinstone Underwood, is a pre-eminent British scientist who was awarded a knighthood for services to medicine in the 2005 New Year honours list.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Education 3 Career 4 Research Interests 5 Books 6 External links

[edit] Early life

[edit] Education

[edit] Career

• Currently Dean of Sheffield University's Faculty of Medicine
• Joseph Hunter Professor of Pathology at the University of Sheffield and Consultant Histopathologist to the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
• President of the Royal College of Pathologists, 2002 - 2006.
• Professor Sir James Underwood has more than 40 years experience of using human tissues in diagnosis, education and research. Sir James has led his profession’s response to the problems arising from tissue retention and use.

[edit] Research Interests

• Liver disease
• Breast disease

[edit] Books

• Editor of General and Systematic Pathology, Churchill Livingstone, 2004 (4th edition). A popular, highly acclaimed undergraduate text.

• Co-editor, with Professor Massimo Pignatelli, of Recent Advances in Histopathology. A must read for those sitting MRCPath exams

[edit] External links

• Bio at University of Sheffield
• Portrait by Bing Jones