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Asset Name:
E000131 - Starr, Philip Alan John (1933 - 2003)
Title:
Starr, Philip Alan John (1933 - 2003)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E000131
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2005-10-26
Description:
Obituary for Starr, Philip Alan John (1933 - 2003), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Starr, Philip Alan John
Date of Birth:
1933
Place of Birth:
Birmingham, UK
Date of Death:
19 September 2003
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1956

FRCS 1963

MB ChB Birmingham 1956

DO Sydney 1961

MD 1965

LRCP 1956

LMCC 1957

FRCS Edinburgh 1963

FRCSC 1978

FRCOphth 1988
Details:
Philip Starr, known as ‘Jimmie’, was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He was born in Birmingham in 1933. After qualifying, he spent four years in Canada and then in Australia, studying ophthalmology at the Sydney Eye Hospital. He subsequently returned to England, where he continued his training at the Western Ophthalmic Hospital as a senior registrar and at Moorfields as a chief clinical assistant. He was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital, and later to the Royal Free. He was a pioneer in the field of refractive surgery, and hosted a symposium at which Slava Fyodorov, the Soviet father of modern radial keratotomy, was an active participant. He also established a successful cataract and glaucoma practice in Harley Street, taking on the patients of that doyen of ophthalmology, Sir Stuart Duke-Elder. He was a founder member of the Independent Doctors’ Forum, his particular interest being in the area of revalidation. He had many interests, including playing tennis for the Midlands, classical music and reading. He died on 19 September 2003 from carcinoma of the lung, leaving a wife, Ruth, a daughter (Juliet) and two sons (Matthew and David), one of whom is an ophthalmologist. There are three grandchildren – Joshua, Ben and Malka Atara.
Sources:
*BMJ* 2004 328 232, with portrait
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E000000-E000999/E000100-E000199
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