Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg

Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg KB MD DSc FRCP FRSE FFPH (7 December 1923–1 September 2007) was Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. He was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and Edinburgh University.

Abraham (Abe) was born in Edinburgh on 7 December 1923, the youngest of five children of immigrant parents from Lithuania and Ukraine.

After junior hospital medical posts and national service with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt, Abe obtained a Nuffield fellowship in the Department of Chemical Pathology at University College Hospital, London. Here he worked with the Professor of Chemical Pathology, Claude Rimmington, in learning the techniques which were to underpin his future research studies on the blood pigment haem and its relation to the disease porphyria. After a year and a half spent on an Eli Lilly travelling fellowship in Salt Lake City with the haematologist Max Wintrobe, Goldberg returned to Scotland in 1956 as lecturer in medicine in the Department of Medicine of the University of Glasgow, where he was to spend the remainder of his professional career.

The mid-1960s saw him being awarded DSc and securing a Personal Chair in the Department of Medicine, Western Infirmary, University of Glasgow. As editor of the Scottish Medical Journal in 1962-63, he presided over the initiation of a special series on Scottish medical education which was published in book form in April 1963. Subsequent to this, over the next 20 years, he made contributions to the development of medical education through, for example, the production of a bedside teaching manual for medical students (known as "the green book"), the production of a clinical examination slide-tape series (with Albert Yeung), and a major paper on the future of Scottish medical education in the Health Bulletin, in addition to his bedside teaching, lectures and supervision of students undertaking postgraduate degrees.

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