Autor: Anders Rane

Since 2003, Dr Stuart Mac Leod has been Professor of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He was also Director of the Child & Family Research Institute at BC Children’s Hospital until January 2010 and remains a senior clinician scientist at the Institute. Dr Mac Leod received an MD from the University of Toronto in 1967 and completed postgraduate training in clinical pharmacology in 1973 at Mc Gill University where he obtained a Ph D in pharmacology in 1972. In the early stages of his career his research interests focused on biochemical pharmacology, drug hepatotoxicity and drug biotransformation. In 1979 Dr Mac Leod became the founding leader of a Division of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. This University of Toronto unit has now thrived for 35 years and is the world’s leading centre for training and research in pediatric pharmacology and toxicology. Dr Mac Leod served as Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Mc Master University (1987-1992) and following the deanship founded the Centre for Evaluation of Medicines with a focus on therapeutics teaching, clinical pharmacology, population health sciences and pharmacoepidemiology. Since 1986, Dr Mac Leod has held a major interest in international health with a focus on African maternal-child health. His current scientific interests embrace the multitude of factors that influence safe and effective drug treatments for children and the use of research findings to inform clinical and public policy.