Jagdish Chandra Chawla was consultant in charge of the rehabilitation and spinal injuries department at Rookwood Hospital, Cardiff. He studied medicine at Osmania College, Hyderabad, qualifying MB BS in 1956. He gained his FRCS in 1965. Prior to his appointment at Rookwood Hospital, he was an ass

Andrew Charles O’Brien was an East Grinstead surgeon who specialised in treating children with spinal problems. After working for some time at the Queen Victoria Hospital, he had fairly recently started a job at the paediatric department at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, returning to

Nicholas Reginald Boeree was a consultant orthopaedic spinal surgeon based in Southampton who was well-known internationally in his chosen specialty for his clinical trials evaluating the effectiveness of new spinal implants. He was a man of considerable energy and wide-ranging interests, including

Andrew Ransford, known to friends and colleagues as ‘Andy’, was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at University College Hospital (UCH), London and at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, who specialised in spinal surgery. He was born in Kenya, where his father, Oliver Ransford, was a

Henry Vernon Crock (known as Harry) was a pioneering Australian spinal surgeon. He was born in Perth, Western Australia on 14 September 1929, the son of Vernon Crock and Annie Crock née Doyle. He studied medicine at the University of Melbourne with his identical twin brother Gerard William Crock, wh