Professor David Lawson (Chairman), Ex-Chairman of the Medicines Commission and the Scottish Consortium

Founding Chairman, Scottish Medicines Consortium 2001- 2004

Consultant Physician, Glasgow Royal Infirmary 1973 - 2003

Honorary Professor of Medicine & Therapeutics, University of Glasgow 1994 - on

Visiting Professor, School of Pharmacy, Strathclyde University 1976 - 2005

Former Chairman, Medicines Commission, Department of Health, London 1994-2001

Former Chairman of Committee on Review of Medicines, DoH, London 1986-1992

Former Councillor and Vice-President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1996 - 1999

Stanley Davidson Lecturer, RCP Ed 1985

Sydney Watson Smith Lecturer, RCP Ed 2003

Tri-Faculty Lecturer RCP Lond 1999

Trustee, RCP Ed 2005 – on

Trustee, Drug Safety Research Unit, University of Southampton 2002 – on

Research Associate, Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, Boston University, Boston USA 1971 - 2001

MD Glasgow, FRCP Ed, Glasgow, London.

Fellow, American College of Clinical Pharmacology

Fellow, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

CBE – for services to medicines regulation 1994

Fellow, Faculty of Public Health Medicine, 1995

Hon DSc University of Hertfordshire, England, 1999

Hon DSc Strathclyde University, Scotland, 2001