Dowd, George Simon Edmund (1946 - 2016)
by
Tina Craig
Asset Name
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E009219 - Dowd, George Simon Edmund (1946 - 2016)
Title
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Dowd, George Simon Edmund (1946 - 2016)
Author
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Tina Craig
Identifier
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RCS: E009219
Publisher
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London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date
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2016-07-29
2019-10-28
Subject
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Medical Obituaries
Description
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Obituary for Dowd, George Simon Edmund (1946 - 2016), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language
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English
Source
:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name
:
Dowd, George Simon Edmund
Date of Birth
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9 November 1946
Date of Death
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4 April 2016
Occupation
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Orthopaedic surgeon
Trauma surgeon
Titles/Qualifications
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MB ChB Liverpool 1971
MCh Orth 1978
MD 1982
FRCS 1975
Details
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George Simon Edmund Dowd was an orthopaedic surgeon in London. Born on 9 November 1946 he studied medicine at Liverpool University and graduated MB ChB in 1971. After house jobs in orthopaedics at the David Lewis Northern and the Sefton General Hospitals in Liverpool he passed the fellowship of the college in 1975. Senior registrar in orthopaedics at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, he was appointed lecturer then senior lecturer in orthopaedics at Liverpool University. He became honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Royal Liverpool, Broadgreen and Royal Southern Hospitals. Subsequently he moved to London where he took up a consultancy at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, a senior lectureship at the Institute of Orthopaedics and a consultant post at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Finally he joined the staff of the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead.
Among his notable papers were those on supracondylar fracture in children and skin viability studies. He was a member of the British Association for the Surgery of the Knee, the British Orthopaedic Research Society and the British Orthopaedic Association.
On 4 April 2016 he died aged 69 and was survived by his wife Angela.
Rights
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection
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Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format
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Obituary
Format
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Asset
Asset Path
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009200-E009299
URL for File
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381402
Media Type
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Unknown