Nicholas Warren studied medicine at London University and the London Hospital, qualifying MB, BS in 1976. He did house jobs in accident and emergency medicine at the London and for the North West Thames Regional Health Authority. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1983 and became an accident

Akpaneyen Akpan-Essien was a consultant surgeon in the Cross River State, Nigeria. He was born on 21 March 1946 in Ubium, Ibibio Land, Nigeria, the son of David Akpan-Essien and Grace Akpan-Essien née Udoekpo, both peasant farmers. His great grandfather was a landowner, general and physician to the