Edward Wayne

Sir Edward Johnson Wayne (3 June 1902 – 19 August 1990) was an English physician, biochemist, thyroidologist, and professor of medicine.

Biography Wayne attended Leeds Central High School from 1914 to 1920 and then matriculated at the University of Leeds, graduating there in 1923 BSc in chemistry and in 1924 MSc after working on organic chemistry. He then went to the University of Manchester to do research on the intermediary metabolism of the fatty acids. Wayne graduated there in 1925 with a PhD.

... he was later appointed physician to the Children’s Hospital and to the Emergency Medical Service. In 1941 he took charge of the beds and consulting practice of Robert Platt, later Lord Platt ... during the latter's absence in military service. ... After the war he became once again a full-time professor of therapeutics ... I. P. C. Murray, and Edward J. Wayne developed a clinical diagnostic index (sometimes called the "Wayne score") in thyrotoxicosis. The procedure allocates a positive or negative score to each clinical feature and provides a numerical estimate of the degree of severity of the disease.

Older generations of endocrinologists were familiar with the use of Wayne's score and Billewicz's score for clinical diagnoses of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, respectively. Contemporary medical textbooks have discarded those two diagnostic scores as old-fashioned. However, various scoring and grading systems in clinical thyroidology might still have value.

Selected publications Articles

with J. F. Goodwin and H. B. Stoner: with John L. Emery, L. M. Rose, and Sheila M. Stewart: with J. F. Goodwin and R. Steiner: with J. Colquhoun and Joyce Burke with Alastair G. Macgregor: with G. W. Blomfield, A. G. Macgregor, and H. Miller:

with E. K. Blackburn, Joyce Burke, and Cissie Roseman: (Bradshaw Lecture)

with G. W. Blomfield, J. C. Jones, A. G. Macgregor, H. Miller, and R. S. Weetch: with A. G. Macgregor: with F. P. Muldowney and M. M. Bluhm: with Russell Fraser and Selwyn Taylor: with J. Crooks: (1st of 2 Lumleian Lectures) (2nd of 2 Lumleian Lectures) with James Crooks, W. Watson Buchanan, and E. MacDonald: with J. J. R. Duthie, R. H. Girdwood, Douglas Hubble, A. G. Macgregor, Andrew Wilson, and G. M. Wilson: with W. Watson Buchanan, W. D. Alexander, J. Crooks, D. A. Koutras, J. R. Anderson, and R. B. Goudie: with William D. Alexander, D. A. Koutras, J. Crooks, W. W. Buchanan, E. M. MacDonald, and M. H. Richmond:

Books with Demetrios A Koutras and William De Witt Alexander: