Dr. Dixon Miles Woodbury, 69, a widely known research authority on epilepsy and anti-epileptic drug therapy and a faculty member at the University of Utah School of Medicine, died July 29, 1991, of natural causes in a Bountiful hospital.
Distinguished professor of physiology and pharmacology and a member of the faculty of the U. School of Medicine for 43 years, Dr. Woodbury was involved in research for a new type of treatment of seizures.Dr. Woodbury was born in St. George, received a bachelor's degree in zoology in 1942 and a master's degree in 1945 in herpetology at the U. and a doctorate in physiochemical biology and cellular physiology at the University of California at Berkeley in 1948.
He was chairman of pharmacology at the U. from 1972 to 1980, working since that time as head of the division of neuropharmacology and epileptology in the department of physiology.
Dr. Woodbury has received many honors, including the John Jacob Abel Medalist and Epilepsy Research Award from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and the Silver Pythagoras Award for outstanding research in epilepsy from the University of Catanzaro, Italy.
Dr. Woodbury was a high priest and was serving as clerk of the Val Verda Stake, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at the time of his death.
Funeral will be at noon Thursday in the Val Verda Stake Center, 2600 S. 500 West, Bountiful. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Russon Brothers Bountiful Mortuary, 295 N. Main, and from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the church. Burial will be in Bountiful City Memorial Park.