Elizabeth Williamson

{{Short description|British pharmacist}}

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Elizabeth M. Williamson MRPharmS is a former Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Reading, England. Her main research interest is in herbal medicines.{{cite web|title=Staff Profile:Professor Elizabeth Williamson|url=http://www.reading.ac.uk/pharmacy/about/staff/e-m-williamson.aspx|website=Pharmacy|publisher=University of Reading|accessdate=13 November 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406220358/http://www.reading.ac.uk/pharmacy/about/staff/e-m-williamson.aspx|archivedate=6 April 2015}} Includes comprehensive list of publications

She began work as a practising pharmacist in 1978, working in both community and hospital pharmacies. Before being appointed to the chair in the newly created School of Pharmacy at Reading in 2005 she was Senior Lecturer in Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy at the University of London School of Pharmacy.{{cite web|title=New Professor of Pharmacy Appointed|url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR111.aspx|publisher=University of Reading|accessdate=13 November 2015|date=10 February 2005}}

Her published works include an updated edition of the 1907 Potter's Herbal Cyclopaedia (1988, C W Daniel, {{ISBN|978-0852073612}}).{{cite journal|last=Morton | first=Julia F.|title=Book Reviews: Potters New Cyclopedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations|journal=Journal of Economic Botany|date=1989|volume=43|issue=2|pages=279–282|jstor=4255166}}

She is editor of the journal Phytotherapy Research.{{cite journal|title=Phytotherapy Research|journal=Phytotherapy Research|doi=10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1573|doi-access=free}}