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First Title value, for Searching Redding, Warren Howard (1953 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-08 2013-12-09
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Occupation Emergency medicine specialist Accident and emergency consultant
Details Howard Redding was an associate specialist in charge of the minor injuries unit at Stamford Hospital, Lincolnshire. He was born in Putney, London, the son of Warren Redding, a GP, and Stella, a radiographer. He attended the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington and then studied medicine at Westminster Medical School, as his father had done before him. After house posts, he joined the Royal Marsden Hospital, where he carried out research, and then began his career in emergency medicine, gaining his specialist post at Stamford. Outside medicine, in his earlier years he enjoyed rugby, skiing, sailing and bridge, and later gardening and DIY. He married Jean, a senior cancer intensive care nurse, and they had two children, a son, Ian, and a daughter, Nikki. He died on 30 October 2011, from metastatic cancer, aged just 58, and was survived by his family.
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First Title value, for Searching Dent, Andrew Wesley (1955 - 2008)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-03-24
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Occupation Emergency medicine specialist Accident and emergency consultant Tropical medicine specialist
Details Andrew Wesley Dent was one of Australia’s most respected accident and emergency surgeons and an aid worker committed to humanitarian work in the third world. Born in Warragul, Victoria on 1 February 1955, he was the fourth child and third son of Ronald William Dent an engineer and his wife Dulcie Rose née Weatherhead, the daughter of a teacher. Educated at Warrangul High School and Wesley College in Melbourne, he then enrolled at the University of Melbourne initially at Queen’s College. He then proceeded to the University Medical School and trained at St Vincent’s Hospital. After graduating with first class honours in 1979, he travelled to Calcutta in 1980 and worked with Mother Theresa at the Missionaries of Charity – the start of his lifelong commitment to medical care in developing countries. In 1981 he came to the UK and did house jobs in casualty at the North Middlesex Hospital, London and in orthopaedics at St James’ Hospital, Balham. Two years later he moved to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn where he worked with S G Thompson as a general surgeon before finishing his training at the Peterborough District Hospital from 1983 to 1985 under J H Hall and C J S Kent. He passed the fellowship in 1985 and moved to a mission hospital in Shishong in Cameroon where he spent many years as the only qualified surgeon in a small team. While there he did his best to introduce modern medical practice and worked tirelessly to fundraise for what was basically a very under resourced hospital. In 1986 when the volcanic Lake Nyos released a deadly cloud of gases, he was the first doctor on the scene of the disaster which eventually killed about 1700 people. After spending a short time in Australia for the birth of his first son, he moved to Raboul, New Guinea. Here the town was almost completely destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption in 1994 and his research in tropical medicine was cut short. His wife and children were evacuated by the RAAF but he stayed on to give much needed medical aid before returning to Australia in 1995. He was appointed Director of Emergency at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, became a member of the Australian College of Tropical Medicine and a fellow of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine. He established the Emergency Practice Innovation Centre at St Vincent’s and streamlined the accident and emergency services. He was particularly keen to provide a compassionate service and a colleague Guy Sansom, who worked with him for 15 years, said that “He truly believed that the unwashed and the unloved are just as deserving as anyone else is to good quality care…..he just reminded us that everyone deserves a chance.” Active in the training of younger doctors and the author of numerous research papers and practice manuals, he became an associate professor at Melbourne University. He passed a master’s degree in public health and continued to visit New Guinea frequently, establishing the Pacific Health Foundation to ensure that his work continued. In 2008 he was admitted to the Order of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine. While working on a kibbutz in Israel in 1977 he met Blandine Janot, she was the daughter of the French constitutional lawyer and politician Raymond Janot. They married in 1978 and had two sons Christian and Stephan. Outside medicine he enjoyed playing golf, squash and cricket. The day after he was named in the Queen’s Birthday honours, he died of colon cancer on 10 June 2008, aged 53, survived by his wife and family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009088
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First Title value, for Searching Reece, Victor Alan Cyril (1945 - 2017)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2017-12-13
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Occupation Emergency medicine specialist Accident and emergency consultant
Details Alan Reece was a consultant in the accident and emergency department at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead. He was born on 14 January 1945, the son of Ethel Muriel Reece née Forknall and Herbert Reece. He gained a BSc from Newcastle University in 1967 and qualified with a MB BS degree three years later. He joined the Royal Navy in 1981 as a surgeon lieutenant. He was promoted to surgeon lieutenant commander in 1982 and surgeon commander in 1989. In 1997 he became a principal medical officer having been the medical officer in command of a NATO exercise in 1992. Prior to his appointment as a consultant, he was a surgical registrar at Dryburn Hospital, Durham, a research fellow for the Northern Regional Health Authority and a senior registrar in the accident and emergency department at Newcastle General Hospital. He gained his FRCS in 1975 and was a founding fellow of the College of Emergency Medicine. He was a member of the Order of the Fleur- de-Lys, a non-masonic order of chivalry, and of the Order of St John. He married Ann M Barnett in 1969. They had two sons, Simon, who predeceased him in 2009, and Gareth. Reece died suddenly on 17 August 2017 whilst on holiday in Spain. He was 72.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009401
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