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First Title value, for Searching Pendlebury, Malcolm Ernest (1939 - 2004)

2024-05-02T02:30:55Z

by P Lowndes
Publication Date 2023-08-11
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Occupation Dentist Dental surgeon
Details Malcolm Pendlebury died suddenly on Sunday 26 September 2004 at his home in Nottingham; he was 65. Dean of the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners (UK) 1997-2000, Malcolm was one of the profession’s enthusiasts with a wide range of interests in clinical dentistry, teaching and research, and will be sadly missed. Up to the time of his death, he was working in his general dental practice at The Parks in Nottingham, and was also undertaking specialist sessions in prosthodontics and oral surgery at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham. He was involved in teaching in various fields within the universities of Nottingham, Sheffield and Leeds, was educational adviser to the FGDP(UK) and was, among other projects, engaged in the re-writing and updating of the well-known *Self assessment manual of standards (SAMS)* handbook. Outside dentistry, Malcolm worked on behalf of the World Health Organization in verifying quality assurance in the examination systems of medical schools in the former Yugoslavia. Another interest was transprofessional activity and he had recently organised a conference for the UK Centre for the Advancement of InterProfessional Education on overseas recruitment and cultural change, which embraced medicine, dentistry, nursing, physiotherapy and a number of other healthcare professions. In dental affairs, he was the president-elect of the East Midlands branch of the BDA. A number of Malcolm’s activities throughout his career are worthy of particular mention. He was one of the pioneers of vocational training in the East Midlands, running a vocational training scheme and acting as regional adviser. He was a well-known member of the BDA’s Representative Board and the General Dental Services Committee. Inevitably, this led to much involvement in the committee structure of the BDA, from which he only stood down recently. Finally, he was one of the founder members of the FGDP(UK), making considerable contributions to the development of its structure. He served as its third dean and ensured that the Faculty was soundly based and a permanent member of the family of dental institutions. Most of all, Malcolm will be remembered for the many qualities he brought to the world of general dental practice. He sought to raise the status of general dental practitioners, provide them with standards they could aspire to and thereby to raise the quality of patient care. A career as busy and structured as Malcolm's required certain personal attributes. He brought energy and commitment to the work that he did. Above all, he will be remembered particularly for his enthusiasm and energy in developing the world of primary dental care. Malcolm is survived by a son and a daughter, and his wife Andrea, to whom our sympathies are extended. A funeral service was held in Nottingham, and a further service of remembrance at St Clement Danes Church in London.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010411
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, Barrie Thomas (1946 - 2015)

2024-05-02T02:30:55Z

by Nick Baker
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2016-05-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380222380222
Occupation Dentist Oral and maxillofacial surgeon
Details Barrie Evans was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Southampton General Hospital. Born to Australian parents in India on 10 December 1946, he came from a family with a long tradition of horse racing, hence a diverse education that took him to England, India, Hong Kong and Australia for his schooling. His grandfather, William Evans, won the Melbourne Cup on Apologue in 1907 after losing 20 pounds to make the starting weight. The jockey fainted during the race, yet he still managed to finish on the 3/1 favourite; a sign of the fortitude and determination, perhaps, of his yet-to-be born grandson. Barrie graduated from Sydney University in 1971, passing his bachelor of dental surgery degree with honours after being ranked top of his year. After testing the water in dental practice in his native Australia, Barrie came to realise that his thirst for knowledge was, as yet, unquenched, and sought out opportunities abroad. He managed to secure a post in the oral surgery department in Cardiff in 1974, where his love for surgery first became manifest. During this period, a medical degree to pursue a career in the burgeoning specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery became a necessity, and, after greatly impressing his consultants as a diligent house surgeon, Barrie secured a place at Cardiff University to study medicine, graduating in 1981. Barrie completed his surgical training in Cardiff, St George's, the Royal Dental, Odstock and Southampton hospitals, and also spent time abroad to hone his surgical skills in Switzerland and Sri Lanka. Barrie was appointed as a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Southampton in 1988 and quickly established himself as a visionary and trailblazer by transforming a local oral surgery department into a nationally and internationally recognised centre of excellence in the evolving areas of craniofacial and skull base surgery. Barrie's love of anatomy, particularly relating to the skull base and orbit, was the harbinger of the close relationship he developed with neurosurgical colleagues in Southampton. This began with John Garfield when Barrie was a senior registrar, and this revolutionary cross-specialty co-operation continued apace following his concurrent consultant appointment with Glenn Neil-Dwyer. Barrie was a founder member of the British Association of Skull Base Surgery in 1992. He went on to publish many thought-provoking and challenging papers that contributed to the rapid advance of his chosen sub-specialty, and his work with fellow oral and maxillofacial surgeons and neurosurgical colleagues in the contemporary management of craniofacial trauma led to a re-evaluation of how craniofacial injuries were managed throughout the United Kingdom. Even at the time of his death, Barrie was still devoting many long hours to a collaborative, prospective study he was leading into frontobasal fractures of the craniofacial skeleton. Barrie developed an exceptional ability as an ablative cancer surgeon based on his peerless anatomical knowledge and experience, and, with colleagues, went on to establish a respected head and neck cancer service, a forerunner to the busy practice that is currently evident in Southampton today. Barrie was not only a gifted surgeon, but he was also an entertaining and informative speaker and teacher, who was always in demand. He presented many papers and delivered 140 invited keynote and eponymous lectures at national and international meetings based on his reputation for the diagnosis and management of craniofacial injuries. He published over 40 papers, the majority of which were as the first-named author, in peer-reviewed journals, and wrote 14 book chapters. In addition to being an innovator and an inspirational leader, Barrie excelled as a surgical trainer and teacher, always having time for trainees, no matter their station, spending many hours teaching and tutoring them in the preparation for presentations and examinations. Barrie was awarded the president's prize at the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons annual scientific conference in 2000 for his paper, 'Post traumatic orbital reconstruction - the concept of the "deep orbit"'. He was awarded the Down's surgical prize in 2006, an accolade awarded annually to a surgeon who has made a major contribution to the specialty throughout his career. Barrie was appointed as a civilian consultant adviser in oral and maxillofacial surgery to the Royal Navy and served in this post until the time of his retirement from the National Health Service in 2012, a remarkable achievement for an Australian who only became a British citizen in 2014! Barrie held many administrative posts of note, including lead clinician for cancer services for Southampton from 1996 to 1998, but his most pleasurable achievement was the year he spent as president of the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in 2009. Barrie would undoubtedly acknowledge the fierce and loyal support that his wife, Christine, always afforded him. Outside of work, he loved pacing the common in Southampton with his dogs, keeping himself fit by running and swimming. He read widely and had an encyclopaedic knowledge of history and horse racing. Who will ever forget his smiling face; the multi-coloured bow ties - hand tied, of course; his beloved small, round glasses; his empty pockets when queuing at Costa; an abysmal sense of direction; an uncanny talent to lose keys and telephone with repetitive ease; a unique taste in music and, of course, a memorable lack of political correctness? Barrie was still working when he died on 3 July 2015 and retained a great zest for his family and work. He was 68. He leaves behind Christine, whom he married in 1986, two step-children, Alex and Leighton, and five step-grandchildren, Rhys, Gabriel, Roxanne, Darcey and Cayenne.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008039
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, Ian Irvine (1920 - 1978)

2024-05-02T02:30:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-14
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007000-E007099
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379236379236
Occupation Dentist ENT surgeon General practitioner
Details Ian Irvine Wilson, the son of Leonard and Dorothy Garland Irvine, was born at Wellington, New Zealand, on 10 October 1920. After education at John McGlasher College he went to the University of Otago to graduate in dentistry at the age of twenty-one. After three years in dental practice he returned to Otago to study medicine and qualified in 1951. He spent two years as a house surgeon at Auckland Hospital and then entered general practice at Thames, North Island. After five years he decided to specialise in otorhinolaryngology and worked for a year as registrar at Green Lane Hospital before taking his family to London. For two and a half years he worked at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital and at Golden Square Hospital and passed the DLO and FRCS examinations. After returning to New Zealand he became FRACS in 1962 and spent a further year at Green Lane Hospital as tutor in ENT work before entering private practice with consultant appointments at Auckland Hospital and the Mater Hospital. He decided to make a subspeciality of rhinoplasty and developed that interest on study trips abroad. He served on the executive of the New Zealand Otorhinolaryngological Society for many years and was its most active and successful treasurer. Outside his professional work he had quite unusual competence and expertise in his hobbies. While working at Thames he had established his own radio transmitting station which kept him in touch with other enthusiasts around the world. He was a driver of fast cars who always knew exactly how they worked and, in his mid-forties, he became interested in flying. He had married Jessie Mary Wyman, in 1945, and they both now became fully qualified instrumental commercial pilots and aircraft operators. Such was his enthusiasm that he became one of the most experienced and highly qualified private pilots in New Zealand and proceeded to organise an ENT practice in Norfolk Island and at Tauranga. He and his wife flew themselves to a combined conference of the Australian and New Zealand ENT societies in South East Asia via New Guinea, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore, and they also made extensive flying tours around New Zealand and Australia. His keen and enquiring mind was always interested in anything or anywhere new. He died aboard his launch on Lake Taupo, N Island, on 28 December 1978, survived by his wife Jessie and daughters Barbara, Susan and Cheryl.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007053
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