Jeffrey K Aronson
MA DPhil FRCP HonFBPhS HonFFPM
Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist
Research
- Methods of classifying, detecting, and reporting adverse drug reactions, including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and the use of anecdotal reports
 - Innovation in drug therapy
 - Monitoring therapy in chronic disease
 - Systematic reviews of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic modelling
 - The role of mechanisms in the philosophy of evidence-based medicine
 - Linguistic aspects of medicine and pharmacology
 
Teaching and training
- Teaching medical students the fundamentals of therapeutics.
 - Ad hoc two-week special study modules in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics for medical students.
 - Co-author of didactic textbooks (e.g. “The Oxford Handbook of Practical Drug Therapy”) and contributor of chapters to others.
 - Editor, Meyler’s Side Effects of Drugs: The International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions (16th edition, 2015) and of its annual updates, Side Effects of Drugs Annuals 1-35
 - Co-editor (with John Talbot), Stephens’ Detection and Evaluation of Adverse Drug Reactions: Principles and Practice. 6th edition
 
Policy
- President Emeritus, Honorary Fellow, and past Vice-President Publications, British Pharmacological Society.
 - Previous Member of the Advisory Board of the British National Formulary.
 - Chairman of the British Pharmacopoeia Commission’s Expert Advisory Group on Nomenclature
 - Member, WHO’s Expert Advisory Panel on International Pharmacopoeia and Pharmaceutical Preparations
 
Recent publications
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                When I use a word . . . The longest medical words.
            
            
            
Aronson JK., (2025), BMJ, 388
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                When I use a word . . . The funniest medical words.
            
            
            
Aronson JK., (2025), BMJ, 388
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                When I use a word . . . Tariffs. 
            
            
            
Aronson JK., (2025), BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 388
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                When I use a word . . . The most beautiful medical words
            
            
            
Aronson JK., (2025), BMJ, r376 - r376
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                When I use a word . . . Academic publishing: the impact factor.
            
            
            
Aronson JK., (2025), BMJ, 388
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                When I use a word . . . Medical anniversaries in 2025: digitalis and the treatment of dropsy.
            
            
            
Aronson JK., (2025), BMJ, 388
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                When I use a word . . . The ugliest medical words.
            
            
            
Aronson JK., (2025), BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 388
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                When I use a word . . . Lexicographic anniversaries in 2025: Placebo.
            
            
            
Aronson JK., (2025), BMJ, 388
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                When I use a word . . . Lexicographic anniversaries in 2025.
            
            
            
Aronson JK., (2025), BMJ, 388
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                When I use a word . . . Medical anniversaries in 2025
            
            
            
Aronson JK., (2025), BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 388