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
When I use a word . . . Facial blindness-prosopagnosia.
Journal article
Aronson JK., (2026), BMJ, 392
When I use a word . . . The mind's eye-phantasia, aphantasia, and hyperphantasia.
Journal article
Aronson JK., (2026), BMJ, 392
When I use a word . . . Pictorial symbols: smileys, emoticons, emojis
Journal article
Aronson JK., (2026), BMJ Clinical Research Ed, 392
When I use a word... Artificial intelligence—predicting and detecting adverse drug reactions
Journal article
Aronson JK., (2026), BMJ, 392
When I use a word . . . Medical anniversaries in 2026: William Withering's Botany
Journal article
Aronson JK., (2026), BMJ Clinical Research Ed, 392
When I use a word . . . Medical anniversaries in 2026
Journal article
Aronson JK., (2026), BMJ Clinical Research Ed, 392
When I use a word . . . Defining bias in research
Journal article
Aronson JK., (2025), BMJ Clinical Research Ed, 391
Clinical Study Reports—a systematic review with thematic synthesis: Part 2. Studying benefits, harms, and the benefit to harm balance of pharmacological interventions
Journal article
Aronson JK. and Onakpoya IJ., (2025), Trials, 26