© 2003 BMJ Publishing Group, British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine, & Faculty of Accident & Emergency Medicine
EDITORIAL
Professor Rod Little
On the retirement of Professor Rod Little
1 Emergency Department, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK
2 Emergency Department, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK
3 Hope Hospital, Salford, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Mr B A Foëx, 21 Sunnybrow Road, Middleton, Manchester M24 4AD, UK;
bfoex@zen.co.uk
A key player in academic emergency medicine
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While 2002 saw the arrival of the Commonwealth Games in Manchester it also marked the departure of Professor Rod Little, who retired in April and moved to the Isle of Mull.
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Dr Rod Little, as he then was, came to Manchester in 1977 when the MRC Toxicology Unit, headed by Professor H B Stoner, moved from Carshalton and became the MRC Trauma Unit. Rod became its acting director when Berry Stoner retired in 1984. A year later, in collaboration with the University of Manchester, the unit became the North Western Injury Research Centre, with Rod as its director.
Rod started his scientific career with a combined degree in zoology and physiology. His PhD on the physiology of injury in the newborn was supervised by Berry Stoner, in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of London. He continued his training in Sweden,
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