Rudra Rasaretnam was a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Colombo General Hospital, Sri Lanka. His grandfather was Samuel Chellar Paul, a senior surgeon at Colombo General Hospital and his uncle, Milroy Paul, was the foundation professor of surgery at Colombo Medical College. Rasaretnam studie

Sir John Chalstrey was a consultant surgeon and senior lecturer at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He specialised in oesophageal and gastric cancer surgery, was an early adopter of minimally invasive surgery when it was introduced in the 1980s, and a founder member of the Society of Minimally Invasive Ge