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First Title value, for Searching Péley, Gábor (1961 - 2016)

2024-05-02T06:58:38Z

by Simon Pain
Publication Date 2016-10-27 2017-11-22
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Occupation Breast Surgeon Endocrine surgeon
Details Gábor Péley was a consultant breast surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. He was born on 24 March 1961 in Hungary, and studied medicine at Szegad before completing his training in Budapest. He worked in the department of surgical oncology in Budapest, where he helped pioneer the use of sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer. He moved to the UK in 2006 to join the team at the breast surgery unit, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. Here he helped introduce the technique of tumour localisation using radioactive isotopes. He also participated in a large number of research projects. He gained his FRCS in 2010. Gábor Péley died on 9 September 2016 at the age of 55. He was survived by his wife, daughter and son.
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First Title value, for Searching Holl-Allen, Robert Thomas James (1934 - )

2024-05-02T06:58:38Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2024-04-30
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Occupation Endocrine surgeon General surgeon
Details Robert Holl-Allen was a consultant surgeon at Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull hospitals. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
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First Title value, for Searching Coe, Nicholas Paul Whittley (1946 - 2015)

2024-05-02T06:58:38Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-02-19
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Occupation General surgeon Endocrine surgeon
Details Nicholas Coe was associate director of surgical education at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts and a professor of surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. He was born in Surrey on 8 May 1946, the son of Stuart Coe and Joan Coe née Whittley. He attended school in Abingdon and went on to study medicine at Guy’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1969. He gained his FRCS in 1974 and emigrated to the US a year later, settling in Massachusetts. He became a US citizen in 1981. He was president of the Association of Surgical Education. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the American Surgical Association and the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons. He was a published author, as well as a composer and musician who played violin in the Holyoke Civic Symphony. In addition, he was a nature lover and an animal lover. He was married to Pamela (née Copeland) for 40 years. Nicholas Coe died on 27 November 2015. He was 69.
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First Title value, for Searching Pegg, Christopher Arthur Sunley (1937 - 2018)

2024-05-02T06:58:38Z

by Tim Williams
Publication Date 2018-11-20 2021-10-11
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Occupation General surgeon Endocrine surgeon
Details Chris Pegg was a Nottingham surgeon who made notable contributions to the surgical management of the thyroid gland and endocrine tumours, including the pancreas, and operated skilfully despite childhood burns to his hands, which required much plastic surgery. Born in Norfolk, he was educated at Taunton School, where his leadership qualities became apparent as head boy and captain of hockey. He also played for the first rugby XV and became an under officer in the Officers’ Training Corps, in which he served as a silver bugler and drum major. Christopher trained at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, where he met his future wife, Ann Jennifer Ault, in the anatomy dissecting room. They married in February 1964 between house appointments. He was a house officer on the surgical unit under John Kinmonth at St Thomas’ Hospital, and subsequently a casualty officer there after a stint as a senior house officer at Great Ormond Street under the paediatric urologist David Innes Williams and Andrew Wilkinson, who persuaded him to take up a registrar post in Aberdeen. He then spent a year in the United States at prestigious institutions doing research, which earned him a masters in surgery in 1969. Back in Aberdeen, he worked under Bill Michie, from whom he developed his commitment to endocrine surgery, and was appointed as a consultant general surgeon in Nottingham. He was a member of many learned societies (and officer of some), including the London Thyroid Club (secretary and treasurer), British Association of Endocrine Surgeons, European Thyroid Association, International Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Nottingham Medico Chirurgical Society (secretary and treasurer), Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. He joined the Travelling Surgical Society (TSS) with his wife Ann in 1983, and was a keen attender until his retirement, presenting many endocrine papers. He was always entertaining company and gave the epithet ‘bon viveur’ a good name. In September 1990 Christopher and Ann hosted a very successful TSS meeting in Nottingham – its first visit there. After Ann’s death, he remained at Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire, and indulged his love of horse racing. He and Ann had three children: James, the eldest, a dentist; Nicholas, an actor, director and playwright; and Clare, a theatre wardrobe mistress. Chris, who died aged 80 on 19 January 2018, is remembered with great affection for his warmth, wisdom and wit as much as his impressive technical skill.
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First Title value, for Searching Lahey, Frank Howard (1880 - 1953)

2024-05-02T06:58:38Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-02 2014-08-07
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Occupation Endocrine surgeon Gastroenterological surgeon
Details Born on 1 June 1880 at Haverhill, Massachusetts, son of Thomas Lahey and Honora Frances Powers, he qualified in 1904 and served as intern at Boston City Hospital and Long Island Hospital 1904-05 and resident surgeon at Haymarket Square Relief Station in 1908. He became surgeon to the New England Baptist Hospital and the New England Deaconess Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served as a Major in the US Medical Corps and was chief of surgery in an evacuation hospital in France. He was a pioneer in thyroid surgery, and after the war was appointed Professor of Surgery at Harvard. He founded the Lahey Clinic in Boston in 1922, which had a definite obligation to the poor and needy as well as to the wealthy and distinguished. The Lahey Clinic has published regularly since 1938 a small *Bulletin* of high quality and a series of volumes of *Surgical practice* 1942, 1951 and 1962. Lahey was President of the American Medical Association in 1940, having served on its councils on Scientific Assembly from 1927 to 1937 and on Medical Education and Hospitals from 1938 to 1940. He was a member of the governing body of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the Société de Chirurgie of Paris. During the war of 1939-45 he was chairman of the US National Commission for the procurement of medical personnel for the armed forces and consultant to the Medical Department of the US Navy, in which capacity he inspected many hospitals in the United States and the Pacific. He was awarded in 1946 the Bigelow medal of the Boston Surgical Society and the Friedenwald medal of the American Gastroenterological Association. Expert in thyroid, biliary and gastroenterological surgery, he was an inspiring teacher both at Harvard and at Tuft's College. In 1940 he was presented with a *Sixtieth Birthday Volume* contributed to by fifty-four writers. His leisure recreations were dog field trials and golf. In 1909 he married Alice Wilcox who survived him. He died on 28 June 1953 aged 73.
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First Title value, for Searching Welbourn, Richard Burkewood (1919 - 2005)

2024-05-02T06:58:38Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-19
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Occupation Endocrine surgeon
Details Richard Welbourn was professor of surgery at Belfast and then at the Hammersmith Hospital, London, where he developed a reputation for endocrine surgery. He was born in Rainhill, Lancashire, on 1 May 1919, the son of Burkewood Welbourn, an electrical engineer, and Edith Annie Appleyard, a teacher. From Rugby School he went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and did his clinical studies at Liverpool University. He qualified in 1942 and, after his first house job, joined the RAMC, where he served in field ambulances and a field dressing station, and took part in the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, after which he was posted to general hospitals in Belgium and Germany. He eventually became a graded surgeon in Hamburg, where he remained until he was demobilised in 1947. On returning to England he became a registrar with Charles Wells in Liverpool, becoming a senior registrar in 1948. In 1951 he spent a year at the Mayo Clinic under James Priestley, then pioneering adrenalectomy for Cushing’s syndrome under cover of the newly described cortisone. He returned as consultant lecturer in surgery at the Queen’s University, Belfast, in Harold Rodgers’ department, where he continued to study the role of adrenalectomy in Cushing’s and later in carcinoma of the breast and prostate. He became a consultant surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, in 1951 and later to Belfast City Hospital. In 1958 he was appointed professor of surgical science. On the death of Ian Aird, Welbourn was invited to the vacant chair at Hammersmith in 1963, taking with him to the new post Ivan Johnston, his senior lecturer from Queen’s, who soon afterwards went on to the chair at Newcastle. His department was active, particularly in endocrine surgery, but supervised all the other disciplines, including urology. A keen teacher, his postgraduate courses at Hammersmith were widely sought-after. He wrote many publications and among other honours was a Hunterian Professor of our College in 1958, received the James Berry Prize in 1970, and was a visiting professor at Yale and many other universities. Among his many interests, stemming from his early involvement with the Student Christian Movement, were the philosophy and ethics of medical care, and he was one of the founders of the Institute of Medical Ethics and was a joint editor of the *Dictionary of Medical Ethics* (Bristol, J Wright, 1977 and London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1981). Unfortunately his last years were marred by a cardiac condition, worsened by the medication he was given. After retiring from Hammersmith in 1983 he was visiting scholar for research at UCLA, where he carried out a study of the history of endocrine surgery, which led to his last book in 1990. In 1944 he married Rachel Haighton, a dentist, by whom he had four daughters, Philippa Mary, Edith Rachel, Margaret June and Dorothy Alice, and one son, Charles Richard Burkewood Welbourn, a surgeon. He had 15 grandchildren. After a series of strokes he died in Reading on 3 August 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Selwyn Francis (1913 - 2000)

2024-05-02T06:58:38Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation Endocrine surgeon General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Selwyn Francis Taylor, an internationally known surgeon and postgraduate teacher, was born in Sale, Cheshire, on 6 September 1913. His mother, Emily Edwards, was a teacher and his father, Alfred Petre Taylor, a headmaster. He was educated at Peter Symond's School, Winchester, before proceeding to Keble College, Oxford, with a Gibb's grant. He graduated BA in 1936, and then went to King's College Hospital, London, on a Burney Yeo scholarship. This was a foretaste of things to come. Shortly after qualifying, he enlisted in the RNVR, serving from 1940 to 1945 as Surgeon Lieutenant Commander in the Atlantic on destroyers as a surgical specialist, and in East Africa, Malaya and Australia. Perhaps this whetted his appetite for the sea, and, as the orator for his honorary Fellowship of the Edinburgh College, James A Ross, said, gave him, "his deep bronzed complexion in the summer months as yachtsman of renown with his sailor wife. The salt water also gave him the thirst of a connoisseur of fine wines!" He later became chairman of the International Wine Society. After the war, he returned to King's College Hospital, and gained a George Herbert Hunt scholarship from Oxford University to study at the Sabbatsberg Hospital in Stockholm, his mentor being Clarence Crafoord. From 1948 to 1949, he was a Rockefeller travelling fellow in the USA at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Although a general surgeon initially, he inclined towards endocrine and paediatric surgery on his appointments as honorary surgeon to Belgrave Hospital for Children (1964 to 1965) and as consultant surgeon to King's College Hospital from 1951 to 1965. As surgeon to the Hammersmith Hospital and senior lecturer to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School from 1947 to 1978, he practised thyroid and parathyroid surgery exclusively, becoming Dean from 1965 to 1978. A prolific writer, he was involved in over 300 publications, not only on his specialist subjects of thyroid and parathyroid diseases, but as editor of *Recent advances in surgery* (London, J & A Churchill, 5th to 8th editions), also Rose and Carless' *Manual of surgery* (19th edition) and, with Leonard Cotton, *A short textbook of surgery* (London, English Universities Press, 1967). It was said that, "he had a gift for tearing the heart out of a book and publishing the essential facts from a mass of irrelevancies." All this led to his becoming chairman of Heinemann Medical Books. Of importance to the College, he served on the Council from 1966 to 1978, being senior Vice-President from 1976 to 1978. Apparently he did not speak volubly, but when he did people listened because he had something important to say! He was Cecil Joll prizeman (1976) and Bradshaw lecturer (1977). Furthermore, he made major contributions to postgraduate training at home and overseas, travelling extensively and being an excellent ambassador for British surgery, known for his wide interests and great talents. He was a member of numerous societies. Many honours came his way, including being President of the Harveian Society (1969), President of the London Thyroid Club, Keat's lecturer to the Society of Apothecaries and President of the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons, indeed it was his vision that led to the foundation of this vibrant society. Albeit in poor health, he attended a meeting in Portugal in 1999, a year before his death. Selwyn was external examiner to eight medical schools at home and abroad, consultant to the Royal Navy, member of the Armed Forces Board, and honorary Fellow of the College's sister organisations in Edinburgh and South Africa. He and his wife Ruth regularly attended home and overseas meetings of the Travelling Surgical Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Made a member in 1955, he was given honorary membership for his major support and contributions. On one visit to Bordeaux, the lack of scientific input was offset by his arrangements for wine tastings and an excellent meal with wines to complement each course at Chateau Leonville Barton! One of his last publications appeared in the BMJ in 1992 entitled 'Confessions of a Benedictine drinker'. In this he traced his first sip as a boy of nine to ward off the rigours of learning to swim in the Atlantic, to its use after dining unwisely! He had played tennis for his teaching hospital as a student, and continued this form of exercise with his long-time friend, Bernard Williams of Portsmouth (with whom he also sailed), until their combined ages were over 160 years. He married Ruth Margaret Howitt, also a doctor, in 1939. They had a son, Simon, a management consultant, and a daughter, Jane, a psychoanalyst. Selwyn died on 11 January 2000. Sadly, his last few years were troubled with cardiac problems and an unhealed fracture.
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First Title value, for Searching Goode, Anthony William (1944 - 2023)

2024-05-02T06:58:38Z

by P Flynn
Publication Date 2023-04-20
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Occupation General surgeon Endocrine surgeon
Details Tony Goode was a professor of endocrine and metabolic surgery at the Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical Schools with Queen Mary College. He was also an honorary professor at the centre for biological and medical systems, Imperial College. He was born on 3 August 1944 in Newcastle upon Tyne, the eldest of four children of William Henry Goode, a sales manager, and Eileen Veronica Goode née Brannan. His early years were spent in the Walker and Kenton areas of Newcastle, before the family moved to Tynemouth in 1958, a place that was to be a constant in his life for the next 65 years. He attended St Aidan’s Grammar School in Sunderland, where he was educated by the Christian Brothers. Tony had fond memories of his school days, where he was academically bright, excelling in science subjects. He was head boy in his final year and, away from the classroom, he enjoyed playing rugby in the winter and, most of all, cricket in the summer; this became a lifelong passion. In 1963 Tony was the first member of the family to go to university when he enrolled to study medicine at Newcastle University. He graduated MB BS in 1968 and, after house jobs in the city, he spent a year as a demonstrator in the anatomy department of Newcastle Medical School whilst studying for his primary fellowship. In 1970, he joined the Newcastle upon Tyne surgical training scheme, working in the surgical units at Newcastle General Hospital, the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle and the regional cardiothoracic surgery unit, which at that time was at Seaham Hall in County Durham. He had happy memories of working with the likes of Alf Petty, Selwyn Griffin, Ross Taylor and Ivan D A Johnston. Tony obtained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1974 and was appointed as a senior research associate and honorary senior registrar in Newcastle University’s department of surgery. He undertook research into muscle metabolism and nutrition in surgical patients. In 1976 he moved to London, initially as a lecturer in surgery and as a surgical tutor at the Royal Postgraduate and St Mary’s medical schools. He continued his research, culminating in the award of his MD in 1978 for his thesis ‘Measurements of body cell mass and its clinical applications’. Between 1980 and 1983 he was a senior lecturer in surgery at Charing Cross Hospital, then he moved to the London Hospital Medical College initially as a reader in surgery in 1983 and in 1994 was appointed professor of endocrine and metabolic surgery at the merged Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical Schools with Queen Mary College. He was also an honorary professor at the centre for biological and medical systems in Imperial College from 1996. This led him to several roles in these institutions combining clinical, research and educational aspects of his work, including supervisor for a number of research projects, chair of examination committees and clinical director for the London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (from 1996 to 2002). He was an external examiner for the final MB BS at three UK medical schools and was actively involved in the undergraduate curriculum development for medicine and dentistry at Queen Mary College, University of London. His clinical work involved the management of emergency and elective general surgical patients with a special interest in the hormone aspects of breast disease and all aspects of endocrine surgery except pituitary disease. His practice became heavily weighted towards tertiary referral of complex or recurrent endocrine problems when surgery was a consideration. In line with this clinical interest, he was actively involved in bringing together several individual groups into the British Endocrine Societies and the establishment of the British Association of Endocrine Surgeons, acting as honorary secretary and treasurer from 1983 to 1985. His research into metabolic surgery, particularly into bone and muscle metabolism, opened new vistas for him. He worked during the early 1970s with the Royal Navy, looking into the metabolic effects of prolonged tours of duty in submariners. There then came an opportunity to work with physicians and scientists in the life sciences division of NASA, the space medicine program in the USA. This was an association that was to continue for over three decades. One of his colleagues from that time, Paul Rambaut, former head of the biomedical research program, writes: ‘In February 1974, the last of the three Skylab flights returned to Earth. At that time we began to analyze the data that had been obtained from these flights which were the first to feature medical science as a primary objective. We had seen hints of bone loss in preceding US and Soviet missions and had planned the Skylab experiments to follow up on these observations. Tony’s expertise in the bone area fitted well with this work and was very timely.’ In 1980 he published a paper ‘Man in space’ in *Nature* (283 525-6 1980) and in 1981 a paper in *The Lancet* on ‘Microgravity research: a new dimension in medical science’ (317 [8223] 767-9 1981). He was an early advocate of this important field, gave evidence to the House of Lords’ select committee on science and technology on medical research in microgravity in 1987 and over 25 years gave nearly 60 presentations on the subject to medical meetings and symposia in the UK and internationally. He was a Hunterian Orator in 1997 with a lecture entitled ‘A matter of gravity’. As an active academic and researcher, Tony strove to produce good quality research in a busy academic unit. This was often multidisciplinary, working with medical physics, biochemistry, bioengineering, physiology and pathology. He supervised a number of research fellows from the UK, China, Colombia, the USA, Greece, Russia, Singapore and India, resulting in 35 higher degrees (MS, MD or PhD) supported by grants of over £2.1 million; at several Higher Education Funding Council research assessment exercises the work was graded 5*. During his career Tony authored or co-authored 188 refereed publications, 241 abstracts, 48 book chapters, three books and monographs, 71 book reviews and 277 lectures or abstract presentations. In 1982, Tony joined the British Academy of Forensic Sciences, acting as assistant secretary general for five years. He was appointed as medical editor and editor-in-chief of their journal *Medicine, Science and the Law* in 1995 and was president of the Academy from 1999 to 2001. In 2000 he was made a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ad eundem). Following his retirement from clinical practice, he spent the next 10 years as a medical member of the Appeals Tribunal Service. Tony married Patricia Flynn (a former assistant director of the anaesthetics unit at the London Hospital Medical College) in 1987. There’s was a long and happy marriage of shared interests, travel and constant companionship. After his retirement, he divided his time between London and Tynemouth, catching up with family and his friends that he had known from his childhood, school, university and work and continuing his travels with Patricia. He was always keen to follow the latest news about his nephew and seven nieces, supporting them in their careers, and hearing about the next generation of great nephews and nieces. Away from his main work, Tony was an enthusiastic follower of cricket and a longstanding member of the MCC and Durham County Cricket Club. He was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Athenaeum, where he and Patricia regularly took visitors to London for dinner. He was also a member of the Scribes Club (where he was scribe to the Scribes from 1995 to 2013). In 1992 he was made a freeman of the City of London and a liveryman of the Society of Apothecaries in 1994. He was a lover of music and opera and would attend performances whenever the opportunity arose. He also delighted in comedy, particularly radio comedy of his youth in the 1950s. Patricia’s devotion to Tony during his final illness (supported by her sister Rosie and the fantastic staff of the NHS, an organisation he worked so tirelessly for) was a shining example of true love and she was by his side at the time of his passing on 25 February 2023 at the age of 78.
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