Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Glasgow, UK
Peter Meredith is a graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, and is currently Reader in Clinical Pharmacology in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics of the University of Glasgow.
He has held this appointment since 1997, having previously been a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Materia Medica of the University of Glasgow. He is based in the Gardiner Institute of the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, where most of his teaching commitments and research is undertaken. His principal research interests are in hypertension and various aspects of clinical cardiovascular pharmacology. Over the last 15 years he has devoted considerable attention to the application of novel modelling techniques, integrating pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic indices particularly in relation to the development of antihypertensive drugs and the "individualisation" of therapy in essential hypertensives. This has also incorporated assessment of the incidence and consequences of poor compliance with antihypertensive drug treatment regimens. His publication list includes over 300 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journal, predominantly, in hypertension and clinical pharmacology.
He is a former Executive Editor of the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Hypertension, Blood Pressure and Annals of Experimental and Clinical Medicine. He was member of the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Cardiology from 1995-1999. From April 1999 to October 2005 he was a member of the UK Committee of Safety of Medicines which advises the UK Licensing Authority (the UK Health Ministers) with regard to the safety, quality and efficacy in relation to human use of any substance or article to which any provision of the Medicines Act 1968 is applicable. He was elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (London) in February 2006. He was Director of Research and Development in the West Glasgow Hospitals University NHS Trust from 1997 to 2000.
