Dixon M. Woodbury

Dixon Miles Woodbury (1921–1991) was an American epilepsy researcher and distinguished professor of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

He published over 300 scientific articles and edited several books on epilepsy, including the first two volumes of Antiepileptic Drugs.

[6] He then attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a PhD in Physiochemical Biology and Cellular Physiology in 1948.

From 1972 to 1980 he was chairman of the Department of Pharmacology, and from 1980 until his death was Division Head of Neuropharmacology and Epileptology in the School of Medicine.

[1][2] Woodbury was also a high priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving at the time of his death as clerk in the stake of Val Verda, Utah.