Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E009409 - Porter, Derek Spencer (1930 - 2017)
Title:
Porter, Derek Spencer (1930 - 2017)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E009409
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2018-01-17
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Porter, Derek Spencer (1930 - 2017), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Porter, Derek Spencer
Date of Birth:
26 September 1930
Date of Death:
12 December 2017
Titles/Qualifications:
FRCS 1963
MB BS London 1954
Details:
Derek Spencer Porter was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon for Greenwich District Health Authority. He was born on 26 September 1930. He studied medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1954. He gained his FRCS in 1963.
He served in the Royal Navy and subsequently became an orthopaedic registrar at the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital and a senior orthopaedic registrar at King’s College Hospital, London, before being appointed as a consultant at Greenwich. He wrote papers on Austin Moore arthroplasty and was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association.
Porter died on 12 December 2017. He was 87.
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009400-E009499
Media Type:
Unknown
