John Ping Fai Chin was a general surgeon from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was born on 20 December 1929 in Hong Kong, the son of Wilmot Cecil Chin and Yung Tai Chin Cheung. His father was born in Jamaica. Chin studied medicine in London and gained his MB BS in 1956. He became a fellow of the Roy

Brian Pickering studied medicine at Guy's Hospital where he qualified in 1956. After junior surgical posts he specialised in cardiothoracic surgery, doing the rotation between the Middlesex, Hammersmith and Harefield Hospitals and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He was appointed

Rodney Brian De Saram received his medical education at University College Hospital and qualified MRCS LRCP in 1955. He obtained the MB BS in 1956; the DO Eng 1962, and the FRCS in 1966. He held resident posts at University College Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. He was appointed consu