James Underwood

Professor Sir James Underwood is an eminent British pathologist who was awarded a knighthood for services to medicine in the 2005 New Year honours list. Underwood was born at Walsall, in 1942, where his father, John Underwood was a general practitioner. The family settled in Cheltenham in 1948. He was educated at Downside School, Somerset. From 1960-1965 he was a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and a house doctor at St Steph... more

Professor Sir James Underwood is an eminent British pathologist who was awarded a knighthood for services to medicine in the 2005 New Year honours list. Underwood was born at Walsall, in 1942, where his father, John Underwood was a general practitioner. The family settled in Cheltenham in 1948. He was educated at Downside School, Somerset. From 1960-1965 he was a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and a house doctor at St Stephen's Hospital, Chelsea. He was formerly the Dean of Sheffield University's Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Joseph Hunter Professor of Pathology at the same university as well as Consultant Histopathologist to the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. From 2000-2002, by election, he served as the President of the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology and he was later elected to be the President of the Royal College of Pathologists from 2002-2005. He led his profession’s response to the... less