Last updated on:
9/1/2009 |
Author: ProCon.org
David Cowan, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Director of the Drug Control Centre at King's College London
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should Performance Enhancing Drugs (Such as Steroids) Be Accepted in Sports?"
- Reasoning:
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“We are building an increasingly sophisticated, intelligence-based testing programme and we are one of the pioneers of what is to become the global approach to no advance notice, out of competition testing. Put simply, any cheating athlete who thinks they can compete or train in the UK without getting caught should think again.”
“All 1,500 British Athletes to Be Drug Tested Before Leaving for Beijing,” Guardian, July 11, 2008
- Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to performance enhancing drugs and sports. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to performance enhancing drugs and sports. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Director, Drug Control Centre, King’s College London, 1990-present
- Head, Department of Forensic Science and Drug Monitoring, King’s College London, 2002-present
- Member, Crippen Club for Distinguished Toxicologists
- Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (FRPharmS)
- Member, IOC Medical Commission, Turin Winter Olympic Games, 2006
- President, World Association of Anti-Doping Scientists, 2001-2004
- Visiting Laboratory Director, Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games, 2002
- Member, IOC (International Olympic Committee) Medical Commission, Sydney Olympic Games, 2000
- Co-founder, Drug Control Centre, 1978
- Education:
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- PhD, school unknown
- BPharm (Bachelor of Pharmacy), school unknown
- Other:
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- None found
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