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Professor John Studd, Gynaecologist.

John Winston Studd, (4th march 1940) - is a British gynaecologist academic and medical historian. He was educated at the Royal Hospital School and at Birmingham University Medical School. After qualification he went to work in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia for several years and then returned to Birmingham where he took his MD in renal disease in pregnancy. In 1969 he started the first menopause clinic in Europe.

He later worked in Salisbury Rhodesia with Professor Hugh Philpott with whom he devised and modified partogram creating action lines to diagnose early labour complications. He also published further work on the mechanism of labour, the effect of epidural anaesthesia on labour and the complication of sickle cell disease in labour.

He extended his interests on hormone therapy for women, particularly osteoporosis and hormone responsive depression in women. He was a founder of the National Osteoporosis Society and now serves as Vice President and is recognised as a Pioneer of HRT. He was the first to show in randomised controlled trials of transdermal oestrogens are extremely effective in the treatment of post natal depression, premenstrual depression and perimenopausal depression.

He is a past chairman of the British Menopause Society, British Society for Psychosexual obstetrics and gynaecology and International Society for reproductive medicine.

He is a past President of the section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine. At the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists he was on the Council for more than 20 years.

He created the RCOG Press and has edited many of the journals. He was the creator and the editor of the successful annual publication Progress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He was awarded the DSc in 2001 and has published more than 500 peer review articles and written or edited more than 40 books.

He has been visiting Professor at Duke University, Harvard, Yale, Cornell and University of Singapore. He was awarded the prize of the Kohn Foundation of Sir Ralph Kohn for services to Osteoporosis and in 2006 was awarded the Blair Bell gold medal at the Royal Society of Medicine given to the doctor who has made the biggest lifetime contribution to his speciality.