Nicholas Coe was associate director of surgical education at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts and a professor of surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. He was born in Surrey on 8 May 1946, the son of Stuart Coe and Joan Coe née Whittley. He attended school in Abingdon and

Tony Goode was a professor of endocrine and metabolic surgery at the Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical Schools with Queen Mary College. He was also an honorary professor at the centre for biological and medical systems, Imperial College. He was born on 3 August 1944 in Newcast