Sir Eric Frank Scowen (22 April 1910 – 23 November 2001) was an English physician and professor of medicine.

[4] At St Bartholomew's Hospital he was a house physician under Francis Richard Fraser.

In 1937 Scowen was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship and studied endocrinology with Philip Edward Smith at Columbia University in Manhattan and with James Howard Means and Fuller Albright at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

[2] There he was appointed in 1945 an assistant physician,[4] in 1955 a director of the medical professorial unit, and in 1961 a professor of medicine, retiring in 1975.

He chaired the British Pharmacopoeia Commission and was later a member and then chairman of the Committee on the Safety of Drugs.