F. R. G. Heaf

F. R. G. Heaf

Professor Frederick Roland George Heaf (1894-1973) was a British physician.

He was born in Desborough, Northamptonshire, England. He attended the University of Cambridge and St Thomas' Hospital as a medical student. He followed a career in Public health and became a Professor at the University of Wales in 1949. His lifelong interest was in tuberculosis and the test used in the UK for immunity to TB used is named for him.

Publications

"Rehabilitating the Tuberculous" - F. R. G. Heaf and John Bowes McDougall (1945)

"Recent advances in respiratory tuberculosis" - F. R. G. Heaf (1968) ISBN 0-7000-1330-X

References

*B.G. Firkin & J.A.Whitworth (1987). "Dictionary of Medical Eponyms". Parthenon Publishing. ISBN 1-85070-333-7
* [http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/heritage/munksroll/index.htm Munk's Roll (Royal College of Physicians obituaries)]


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