About Dr Doug Jenkinson

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About Dr Doug Jenkinson

Who is Dr Douglas Jenkinson?

Dr Douglas Jenkinson is a British family doctor and expert on clinical whooping cough in the community. He has published many scientific papers on this and other subjects and lectured at the University of Nottingham UK. He is best known for his book “Outbreak in the Village: A Family Doctor’s Lifetime study of whooping cough”, published in 2020 by Springer Nature. His  website https://whoopingcough.net explains the disease comprehensively and has helped sufferers get diagnosed since 2000. It was the first website to have the sound of whooping cough. He is now in retirement.

Dr Douglas Jenkinson is also the webmaster of http://eugene-burnand.com, which is dedicated to the works the Swiss artist Eugene Burnand, with special focus on his military pastel portraits from the First World War (1914-1918). 

Dr Douglas Jenkinson is also a photographer specialising in portraits of the elderly and disabled and his photography website is https://bloomingmaturity.com

Personal statement

I am a retired GP who was in practice in Nottinghamshire, England from 1974  until 2011. My special interests were child health and asthma. In those years whooping cough surged after a vaccine scare and then waned as people saw the consequences of rejecting a vaccine against a serious disease. I used the surge to study the disease in detail as it affects ordinary people and published many original papers in top journals. I have treated over 700 people with this disease, which makes me one of the most experienced doctors treating whooping cough in the developed world.

I established this website in 2000 with the aim of helping people to get diagnosed as doctors were, and still are, reluctant to contemplate the diagnosis and do the necessary tests. I am still happy to answer emails that that you send me for FREE!

My professional qualifications and status

My name is Douglas Jenkinson

I am a British citizen

I graduated MB ChB (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) from the University of Liverpool in 1967.

I obtained the Diploma of Obstetrics (DObstRCOG) in 1970 in London, England.

I obtained the Diploma in Child Health (DCH) in London, England in 1972.

I obtained the Diploma of Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1978 in London, England.

I was elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1985 in London, England.

I was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Nottingham, England in 1996 for my work on whooping cough.

I am registered with the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, number 0396235.

I am a member of the British Medical Association number 6388813

I have a substantial profile on Google Scholar

 

Some of my published work on whooping cough

Book

Outbreak in the Village. A Family Doctor’s Lifetime Study of Whooping Cough. Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. ISBN 978-3-030-45484-5. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45485-2

This page has been reviewed and updated on 5 July 2024