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First Title value, for Searching MacIntyre, Alexander Grant (1930 - 2009)

2024-05-12T19:07:04Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2014-10-17
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Neurosurgeon
Details Alexander Grant Macintyre was a family medicine specialist and general surgeon in Alliston, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Lucknow, Ontario, in 1930 and grew up on a farm. In 1948 he began studying medicine at the University of Toronto, but moved to England and Oxford University in 1951 on a scholarship. He gained his BA and BM BCh, and was awarded prizes in pathology and surgery. Whilst at Oxford he captained the university hockey team. From 1955 to 1961 he held university postgraduate posts in Oxford, Heidelberg, the Sorbonne in Paris and Harvard, and gained his FRCS from the Edinburgh and English Royal Colleges of Surgeons. From 1961 he was a resident and then consultant neurosurgeon at Walton Hospital, Liverpool, and a postgraduate clinical lecturer at the University of Liverpool. In 1970 he returned to Canada and settled in Alliston, Ontario, where he practised family medicine and general surgery. He retired in 1999. Outside medicine, he enjoyed sports (including skiing, baseball, inline and ice skating), travelling, carpentry and studying history and languages. In 1971 he married Josée van der Schilden in Amsterdam. They had two daughters, Johanna and Ruth-Ann. Alexander Grant Macintyre died on 19 August 2009, aged 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Langmaid, Charles (1913 - 1997)

2024-05-12T19:07:04Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13
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Occupation General practitioner Neurosurgeon
Details Charles Langmaid was a consultant neurosurgeon in Cardiff from 1951 to 1973. He was born in Cardiff on 29 July 1913, the son of Sidney Langmaid. He attended Cardiff University and did his house jobs at the London Hospital where he qualified in 1935 and won the Hepburn medal for the best student and the John Maclean medal for obstetrics and gynaecology. After passing his FRCS in 1940, Charles spent a year in general practice in Cardiff, followed by a house job at the Royal Infirmary and a trip to the Far East as a ship's doctor. He joined the Royal Navy in 1941 and served at the Royal Naval Hospital, Devonport, and later at Sherborne, practising general surgery and treating a large number of peripheral nerve injuries. In 1973, just before his retirement, when in London for a BMA committee meeting he called at the offices of the Methodist Missionary Society and asked if he could be of any use in the mission field. The result was a year in Dabou in the Ivory Coast, where he operated three days a week and conducted outpatient sessions in between. In later retirement he edited *Neurochirurgia*, translated medical texts from German into English, and attended neurosurgical conferences. He was also well known in the Welsh Methodist movement and was chairman of the United Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs in Wales. With a lifelong love of music, particularly that of Bach, he played organs in churches throughout Britain and Europe and sang regularly in choirs. Predeceased by his wife, Olga, he left a son and two daughters and four grandchildren when he died of carcinoma of the prostate on 4 May 1997.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008724
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First Title value, for Searching Robertson, David Blair (1916 - 1985)

2024-05-12T19:07:04Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20
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Occupation General practitioner Neurosurgeon
Details David Robertson was born in August 1916 in Auckland, a son of Sir Carrick Robertson. He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School where he represented the school in rugby, rowing and swimming. He studied medicine first at Dunedin and then at Melbourne, where he won an anatomy scholarship under Professor Wood Jones, qualifying in 1940. While still at medical school he took part in a survey of the Sir Joseph Banks Islands in the Spencer Gulf, and was the co-author of a paper on the fishes of South Australia. With the onset of war he joined the New Zealand Army as a resident medical officer, and was wounded at Cassino. He served with the 6th Field Ambulance and the No.1 General Hospital. On demobilisation he returned to England to take his FRCS, which he obtained in 1946. He returned to New Zealand for two years working with his father at the Mater Hospital and doing general practice in Otahuhu. He decided to study the newly emerging specialty of neurosurgery so returned to England where he studied at the Manchester Royal Infirmary under Sir Geoffrey Jefferson. Upon returning to New Zealand in 1951 he was appointed as neurosurgeon to the Auckland Hospital and to the Mater Hospital. He had a particular interest in the surgery of Parkinson's disease and hydrocephalus in children. In 1958 he became a Fellow of the Australasian College. He continued in active practice until his retirement in 1981. David was a very active conservationist and an elected member of the Auckland Institute and Museum. He had a special interest in the native birds and trees of New Zealand. In 1978 he was elected to the Waipoua Forest Sanctuary advisory committee and helped in the formation of the Tahuna-Torea reserve in Glen Innes. In his own property in the Bay of Islands he propagated many hundreds of native trees. He made a special study of the exotic Macademia nut tree, working to find which variety was most suitable for growth in New Zealand. His work on this matter is being carried out by his son, an orchardist at Kerikeri. A lifelong interest in sailing gave him the impetus to both build and sail racing dinghies. He was for many years one of the group trained to act as guides at the Auckland War Museum. He was survived by his wife, Isabel, daughter of Jane Taylor, a nurse, and son Ian, when he died suddenly at his home in Auckland on 26 January 1985, aged 68.
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First Title value, for Searching Hooper, Reginald Smyth (1909 - 1991)

2024-05-12T19:07:04Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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Occupation General practitioner Neurosurgeon
Details Reginald Hooper, neurosurgeon and radiologist, was born on 8 October 1909, the youngest of six children. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, where he rowed and won a scholarship to Ormond College, Melbourne University. During his medical course he won the Baldwin Spencer prize in zoology, and continued to row. He was a resident medical officer at the (Royal) Melbourne Hospital between 1933 and 1936, obtaining the MS and the primary FRCS during this period. For two years he was in general practice in Colac in the country west of Melbourne, before leaving, without his family, for the United Kingdom in 1939. After posts as orthopaedic registrar at St Olave's Hospital in South London and clinical clerk at Queen Square in 1940, he obtained the final Fellowship and was appointed neurosurgical house surgeon to Hugh Cairns at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. With the war in progress, towards the end of 1940 he joined the RAMC and, as a lieutenant, was attached to No. 1 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit. This, one of a number organised by Cairns, was mobilised in February 1941 and, under the command of Major P B Ashcroft, was sent to the Western Desert where it accompanied the 8th army on its campaigns. Though there was much idleness - they worked on only nine of the twenty six days of battle - interspersed with periods of activity, Ashcroft reported that Hooper was a 'tower of strength'. Not all the work was neurosurgical, other wounds being treated if the occasion arose, for Hooper had considerable general surgical experience. He was appointed, with the rank of major, Commanding Officer of No 2 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit, which was formed in Cairo in January 1942. After wangling an additional 3 ton truck, Hooper and the unit sailed to India, reaching Poona and finally joining Slim's 14th army in Burma. Subsequently he returned to the Mediterranean theatre, seeing service in Italy and Yugoslavia. According to Ashcroft who was directing neurosurgery there, Hooper was 'the best man in the Mediterranean theatre, an excellent brain, a skillful operator, a hard worker and full of resource'. At the end of the war Hooper returned to Melbourne where he was appointed neurosurgeon to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1946. He and his brother-in-law, E Graeme Robertson, a distinguished neurologist and pioneer in the development of pneumo-encephalography, established the departments of neurosurgery and neurology at that hospital. He was also appointed to the staff of the Royal Children's Hospital and the Repatriation General Hospital. Hooper was particularly interested in head injuries. His article in the *British Journal of Surgery* in 1959 on extradural haematoma remains an important study. In it he analysed the results of the condition as well as its pathology and mechanisms, and drew attention to the high mortality in all reported series. He concluded that this ought to be reducible to 10% with proper education and organisation. The article has provided a standard against which present performance may be judged. He wrote two books, one on neurosurgical nursing and the other entitled *Patterns of acute head injury*. The latter was an original and brilliant attempt to refine the clinical diagnosis of head injury and the early recognition of complications needing surgery by paying particular attention to the way in which the head had been injured. With the appearance of scanning techniques, this skill, regrettably, has been almost forgotten. Hooper was a skillful and meticulous operator. His resourcefulness and originality were shown in his development of a special operating chair, or wheel, manufactured by Downs, for positioning children for cranial surgery, and in the design of his own stereotaxic machine, developed in conjunction with the engineers of the Royal Australian Air Force. He was also an accomplished artist and photographer, using these gifts to illustrate his articles, books and lectures. In a diary of his Burma experiences he included line drawings and watercolours. Under a rule operating at the time Hooper was, to his dismay, retired from the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1966, aged 57, but he continued at the Royal Children's Hospital until he was 65. He then trained as a radiologist, being registrar at Preston and Northcote Community Hospital. He obtained the DDR in 1978 and held visiting appointments thereafter at that hospital, as well as at the Royal Children's and Mount Royal Hospitals, and continued to do some private radiological practice until quite late in his life. On the basis of his published work he was awarded an MD from Melbourne University in 1978. For his care of partisans during the war he received an award from the Yugoslav army. He was President of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia from 1954 to 1955, gave the inaugural Jamieson lecture of that society in 1977, was elected member of the American Association of Neurosurgical Surgeons and was Blackfan Lecturer at Harvard. In appearance Hooper was distinguished and elegant. Quiet and something of a loner, his determination and capacity for outspokenness were evident during his period in the British army and occasioned a sermon from Cairns, suggesting that he avoid 'letting off steam to the brass hats'. In committee he had some difficulty in accepting majority decisions if he thought them wrong. Hooper married Elwyn Masters of Castlemaine in 1936. They had a son, Robert, who became an ENT surgeon in Melbourne, and a daughter, Elizabeth. Having recovered well from a chronic subdural haematoma late in life, he eventually suffered a cerebral haemmorhage from which he died on 7 December 1991.
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