David Cuthbertson

Sir David Paton Cuthbertson, CBE, FRSE (9 May 1900 – 15 April 1989)[1] was a Scottish physician, biochemist, medical researcher and nutritionist who was a leading authority on metabolism. The Rowett Research Institute became one of the world's leading centres for animal nutrition research under Cuthbertson's leadership (1945–65).[2]

Cuthbertson was born in Kilmarnock, and served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers during World War I.

Cuthbertson served on several research and scientific committees, including secondment to the Medical Research Council in 1943, and served as Vice-President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1959-60.

In his early research, Cuthberson observed a loss of nitrogen (urea) in fracture patients, later referred to as surgical stress.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Adam Fleck, ‘Cuthbertson, Sir David Paton (1900–1989)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 29 Sept 2013
  2. ↑ "Sir David Cuthbertson". The University of Glasgow Story. Glasgow: University of Glasgow. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  3. ↑ Cuthbertson, DP (1930). "The disturbance of metabolism produced by bony and non-bony injury, with notes on certain abnormal conditions of bone.". The Biochemical journal 24 (4): 1244–63. PMC 1254622. PMID 16744448.
  4. ↑ Wilmore, DW (Nov 2002). "From Cuthbertson to fast-track surgery: 70 years of progress in reducing stress in surgical patients.". Annals of surgery 236 (5): 643–8. doi:10.1097/01.SLA.0000032942.79841.ED. PMC 1422623. PMID 12409671.