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First Title value, for Searching Rangabashyam, Natesan (1936 - 2013)

2024-05-27T02:53:07Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2014-11-25
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Occupation Gastroenterological surgeon General surgeon
Details Natesan Rangabashyam, who was based in Madras, established the subspecialty of surgical gastroenterology in India. He was born on 5 November 1936, the son of a general practitioner. He originally intended to become a pilot, but joined Loyola College in Madras to study natural sciences. He then studied medicine at Madras Medical College. During his studies he was influenced by Sadashivam, the first cardiothoracic surgeon in Tamil Nadu. Rangabashyam qualified MB BS in 1957. He then went to the UK, intending to study for the FRCS in London, but when he arrived he changed his mind and went to Edinburgh, where he joined the primary course at the Royal College of Surgeons there. He stayed in the UK for five years. He passed the primary examination at the second attempt and then went to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Rhyl, north Wales, as a medical officer, where he began to learn surgical gastroenterology with Ivor Lewis and Owen Daniels. He gained his FRCS Edinburgh in 1963. He then went to the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, working with Small, Card and Falconer for six months. He subsequently returned to the Royal Alexandra Hospital as a surgical registrar and later went as an observer to Liverpool and to St Mark's Hospital in London. Rangabashyam returned to India and in 1964 was appointed as an honorary surgeon and clinical professor of surgery at Thanjavur Medical College and Hospital, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. Here he started laparoscopy as well as a gastrointestinal clinic. He also introduced selective vagotomy and carried out his first hepatic resection. In 1969 he became a consultant surgeon at Stanley Medical College and Hospital, Madras. From 1975, he was head of the department of surgical gastroenterology and honorary clinical professor of surgery at the Madras Medical College and Government General Hospital, Madras. The department was the first in India: he also started the first MCh course in surgical gastroenterology. He delivered lectures at national and international conferences, and was an examiner in India Malaysia, Nepal and in the UK (for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh). He was an honorary surgeon to the president of India, honorary secretary and then president (in 1987) of the Association of Surgeons of India and president of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology (in 1983). He was a fellow of the International College of Surgeons, of the International Academy of Proctology and the American College of Surgeons. He was presented with the Padma Bhushan (a civilian award in India) in 2002, and was given the prestigious B C Roy award on two occasions. He married Chitralekha in 1964, they had a son, Omprakash, and a daughter, Mahalakshmi. He died in his sleep on 13 July 2013. He was 79.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005470
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First Title value, for Searching Ashby, William Bennett (1925 - 1989)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation Gastroenterological surgeon General surgeon
Details William Ashby was born in Prenton, Birkenhead, on 17 May 1925, the son of Ernest William Ashby, a consultant electrical engineer and his wife Dorothy Margaret (née Bennett). He went to school at Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool and graduated in medicine at the University of Liverpool in 1948. Thereafter he was a demonstrator of anatomy in Sheffield before returning to Liverpool for his surgical training. He was influenced by Professor Charles Wells and JB Oldham and became a senior registrar at Liverpool Royal Infirmary before taking a year away as research fellow at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. On his return he was appointed consultant surgeon at Clatterbridge Hospital and continued his special interest in gastroenterology. His thesis on autotransplantation of the small bowel was accepted for a degree as a master of surgery at the University of Liverpool. William Ashby served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and later as a keen member of the Territorial Army where he reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was an enthusiastic motor-cyclist in his youth and a skilled angler. He also enjoyed skiing. In 1962 he married Iona Jones and they had one son. Sadly he had to retire early owing to a prolonged, distressing illness which he bore with great fortitude. He died on 3 June 1989 survived by his wife and son.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007088
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First Title value, for Searching Clark, Charles Grant (1926 - 1988)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation Gastroenterological surgeon General surgeon
Details Charles Grant Clark was born in 1926 and attended the academy at Fraserburgh, Scotland. On leaving school during the war he was initially accepted for the RAFVR but transferred to the Army serving in Bristol and India with the Blood Transfusion Service. He returned to Aberdeen for his medical training where he achieved a number of academic prizes. He moved to London for a year of research with Professor John Vane in the pharmacology department at the College but soon returned to Aberdeen as a senior registrar and later as a senior lecturer. In 1964 he was made a reader in surgery in Leeds where he developed his interest in inflammatory diseases of the bowel as a result of his work with Professor John Goligher. He was also influenced and encouraged by Sir Charles Illingworth, Sir James Learmonth and William Wilson. It was in this exciting era of new developments in gastrointestinal surgery that he was foremost in the field, and he was able to develop many of his ideas within the British Society of Gastroenterology. It was no surprise that he became not only treasurer but also President of that Society. In 1967 he was appointed to the Chair of Surgery at University College Hospital where he continued to influence research particularly on the H2 receptor antagonists and in addition he was actively guiding research into colonic cancer and the use of laser techniques. A long-standing interest in surgical oncology led to a breast clinic being set up. He was a tireless worker and entered with enthusiasm into writing, examining, lecturing, medical school management and travel. A member of the executive and international committees of the International Society of Surgery for several years he was also an assistant editor of the *World journal of surgery*. He was a compassionate person and well liked by his patients. His main hobby was gardening and he always had a flower in his office. Not content with simple horticulture he also cultivated rare varieties of orchid. He was survived by his wife, Nita, and two children Hugh and Yvonne when he died on 8 August 1988 aged 62 years.
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