James Petrie

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James Colquhoun Petrie (18 September 1941 – 2001) was a Scottish medical doctor. He became Professor of Clinical Pharmacology in 1985 and headed the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Aberdeen from 1994. He studied medicine at Aberdeen University. Outside academia, he founded the Lecht Ski Company in 1976 and the Health Services Research Unit in 1986. He was awarded a CBE in 1996 for services to medicine and served as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1997 to 2001. In 2000 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He married Xanthe in 1964 and they had four children. He died in 2001 from glioblastoma.