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Davies, Michael John (1937–2003)

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Michael John Davies

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Michael John Davies

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Mike Davies

Date Country, City of Birth

August 22, 1937, Eltham, London, United Kingdom

Date City of Death

February 18, 2003, Netherbury, Dorset, United Kingdom

History of Life

Michael John Davies was born in Elthan, London, United Kingdom, on August 22, 1937. He entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical School on a State Scholarship in 1955 and graduated in 1961. After completing his house jobs in East Anglia and a year in pathology at the Central Middlesex Hospital, he was appointed in 1963 as registrar in pathology at the St George’s Hospital and Medical School, close to Hyde Park Corner. After completing a three-year post as research fellow at St George’s Hospital Medical School, during which time he completed his doctoral thesis on “The pathology of heart block in man” (1968), he spent a year at Northwestern University, Chicago. He returned in 1969 to take over a post as senior lecturer in pathology at...

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  • Burke, M., Becker, A., Woolf, N., & George, C. (2003). Professor Michael J. Davies, MD, FRCPath. 22nd August 1937-18th February 2003. Cardiovascular Pathology, 12, 177–179.

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  • Corbishley, C., & Burke, M. (2003). Michael John Davies. BMJ, 326, 1270.

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  • Davies, M. J. (1996). Stability and instability: The two faces of coronary atherosclerosis. The Paul Dudley White lecture, 1995. Circulation, 94, 2013–2020.

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  • Davies, M. J. (1983). The conduction system of the heart. London: Butterworths.

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  • Libby, P., & Henney, A. M. (2003). Professor Michael John Davies, MD, FRCPath, FRCP, FACC, FESC. July 8, 1937-February 18, 2003. Circulation, 108, 124–125.

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  1. Dept of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua Medical School, Via Giustiniani 2, 35121, Padua, Italy

    Alberto Zanatta & Gaetano Thiene

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  1. NIJMEGEN, The Netherlands

    J.H.J.M. van Krieken

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Zanatta, A., Thiene, G. (2017). Davies, Michael John (1937–2003). In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_4073-1

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