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First Title value, for Searching Rowe, Paul Harold (1952 - 2023)

2024-05-10T05:17:03Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Paul Harold Rowe was a consultant in general surgery at Eastbourne District General Hospital. 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 Holl-Allen, Robert Thomas James (1934 - )

2024-05-10T05:17:03Z

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 Weinman, Darrel Felix (1929- 2018)

2024-05-10T05:17:03Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-12-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Darrel Felix Weinmann was educated at St Peter’s College, Colombo where he was a high achiever both academically and on the sports field, becoming school cricket captain. He studied medicine in Sri Lanka, qualifying with first class honours and winning the Hallet prize, and then travelled to the UK. After passing the fellowship of the college in 1960, he spent a while in various hospitals before returning to his country to work at the Colombo General Hospital where he eventually specialised in neurosurgery. He also worked as a surgeon to the Sri Lankan army. In the early 1970’s he and his family moved to Australia where he was initially appointed neurosurgeon to the Canterbury and Bankstown hospitals. This proved unsatisfactory as neither hospital had a functioning intensive care unit that could deal with neurosurgical patients. In the end he decided to open a general practice which, in time, became very successful. A talented musician, he played the piano by ear. He died on 14 October 2018 in Sydney, aged 88, survived by his wife of almost 50 years, Brinda, also a qualified surgeon, their children, Jacqueline and Andrew and grand-daughter Hannah. He was predeceased by his sister Oenone and his other siblings Dawn, Willie, Eric Anne, Rosaine and Lester survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Sykes, David (1931- 2020)

2024-05-10T05:17:03Z

by Ian Stevenson
Publication Date 2020-04-14 2020-07-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details David Sykes was a consultant surgeon at Walton Hospital, Liverpool. He was born in Staincliffe, West Yorkshire, on 28 July 1931. His mother’s maiden name was Riley. He was educated at Batley Grammar School prior to studying medicine at Liverpool University. He qualified in 1956 and in that year married Jean. They were to enjoy a close and happy marriage until her death in 2010. He carried out his pre-registration house officer duties at Bradford Royal Infirmary and then joined the department of anatomy at Liverpool University as a demonstrator and clinical research assistant. During this post, he carried out research into the segmental arterial supply of the human kidney by creating arterial casts and subsequently describing the patterns and variations in that supply. For this work he was awarded an MD in 1960. A year later he obtained his FRCS. His surgical training was carried out in the Liverpool region, apart from a short period of overseas service in Bahrain. In 1964, he was awarded a ChM for work on the relationship between renal ischaemia and chronic pyelonephritis. It was at this time that he came under the influence of Philip Hawe, a dedicated thyroid surgeon who had created a thyroid clinic at the David Lewis Northern Hospital and this was to foster his consuming interest in thyroid and endocrine surgery He was appointed as a consultant surgeon to Walton Hospital in 1965, where his deft, assured, surgical touch, coupled with an impressive bedside manner, led to him being in great demand. An abiding memory is that of his unfailing courtesy being extended to all patients, irrespective of background. In a similar vein, he offered total loyalty and support to junior members of his firm who had served him well. His retirement was spent mainly on the Isle of Man, with spells in the Cotswolds and Cumbria, and his hobbies included golf, music and classic cars, of which he owned several. He remained a member of Formby Golf Club from 1966 until his death. He died in Maughold, Isle of Man, on 1 March 2020 at the age of 88 and was survived by his daughter, Philippa, an outpatient manager at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, his son, Nick, an artist with a special interest in classic cars, and two grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Winslet, Mark Christopher (1958 - 2023)

2024-05-10T05:17:03Z

by George Hamilton
Publication Date 2023-10-17
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Occupation General surgeon Colorectal surgeon
Details Marc Winslet was professor of surgery, head of department and chair of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine’s division of surgery and chair of the division of surgical and interventional sciences at University College London (UCL). He was born on 27 February 1958 in Luton, Bedfordshire, the son of Alan John Noel Winslet and Eileen Julia M Winslet née Samm. He qualified in 1981 from the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, was awarded a master of science degree and was Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1988. He trained in general, upper and colorectal surgery in the London, Birmingham and Leicester rotations. After his lectureship at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, he returned to his alma mater as a senior lecturer and honorary consultant to the Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine in 1992. In 1996 he was promoted to a personal chair and, in 1998, to a substantive professor of surgery, head of department and chair of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine’s division of surgery. In 2002 he was appointed chair of the division of surgical and interventional sciences at UCL. Marc held several leadership roles, clinical and academic, in his specialty, including council membership of the British Association of Surgical Oncology, the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland and the Royal Society of Medicine, and treasurer of the British Stomach Cancer Group. He was a talented and popular trainer in both upper and lower GI surgery in addition to his longstanding commitment to the court of examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. As chair of the division of surgical and interventional sciences at UCL from 2002 to 2012 he developed and actively promoted surgical research not only in his chosen areas (upper GI cancer, Barrett’s oesophagus, colorectal cancer, AIDS/HIV related surgery GI and peri-anal disease) but also across the surgical disciplines in particular plastics, vascular, breast and their associated basic scientific fields. He co-edited several major surgical textbooks (*The complete MRCS. Vol 2 system modules* Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 2000, *Essential general surgical operations* London, Churchill Livingstone, 2001 and 2007, and *Surgical oncology* Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009), in addition to major peer-reviewed contributions to the literature. He also elevated the teaching profiles for the newly combined UCL division of surgery by contributing to the popular undergraduate intercalated BSc and postgraduate MSc in surgical sciences and promoted a network of London centres capable of supporting thesis opportunities for surgeons in training. Marc retired from the NHS and UCL in 2017 to focus on his major interest in medico-legal work – he had always been fascinated by the legal profession as an aspirational advocate. In addition to expert opinion, he was in great demand as a clinical adviser to the medical protection societies. He died after a short illness and was survived by his wife Johanna and their young daughter, and three grown up children from a previous marriage to Esther (née Meli). Marc also leaves his siblings, many colleagues, friends and trainees touched (and occasionally exasperated) by his ebullience and charm. Those who knew him will not forget his ebullient personality and wit. His was a true ‘one off’ character with a personal mix of gritty London Eastender, West Ham fanatic and metropolitan sophisticate.
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First Title value, for Searching Ahmadi, Mahmood (1936 - 2019)

2024-05-10T05:17:03Z

by Arthur Pomerantz
Publication Date 2019-12-18 2020-02-19
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon General surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Mahmood Ahmadi was a surgeon at the Veterans’ Affairs (VA) Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. He was born into a privileged family in the small agricultural village of Vastan in Iran not far from Tehran. As an infant, he survived an earthquake to which many of his siblings succumbed. Growing up he enjoyed a multicultural upbringing and was exposed to many different customs and beliefs, from Kurdish bareback riding to the Judaic roots of Purim in Persia. Like his older brother, Abdol Ghana Ahmadi, a noted lawyer and jurist in Iran, Mahmood possessed a superior intellect. He combined this with a familial motivation to master his scholarly pursuits in all disciplines, not just science and medicine. Mahmood developed his addiction to surgery at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences and received his MD in 1960. He pursued two years of missionary work in rural Iran, followed by a rotating internship and residency in Canton, Ohio, USA at the Aultman Hospital and then a general surgery residency in Cleveland, Ohio at Fairview Park Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital under the Case Western University system. His chief of surgery there, Charles Marks, recommended that he seek further training at the Royal College of Surgeons in England. After completing a paper with Marks in 1969 (‘Agnogenic myeloid metaplasia: role of splenectomy’ *Postgrad Med J*. 1969 Apr;45[522]:261-5), Ahmadi crossed the pond to London to immerse himself in his studies with a clinical appointment at King Edward Memorial Hospital, riding around town in a red Triumph convertible. His rewards for his efforts were the fellowship on 7 July 1971, when he passed his exams, and, more importantly, Marsha Savage of Centreville, New Brunswick, Canada, whom he married on 22 August 1970. After gaining his FRCS, Ahmadi went back to his native country in 1972, to work as a general surgeon in Qom. His thirst for mastery of advanced surgical techniques took him and his family back to Cleveland, Ohio from 1974 to 1976, where he received cardiothoracic residency training at St Vincent Charity Medical Center. He again returned to his homeland to practise his newly-honed skills in Tabriz and then Tehran. He subsequently rose steadily in clinical reputation to university faculty representative to the Shah in his specialty. Throughout his rise to professional eminence in his home country he always expressed a desire ‘to do my best to help the people’. He did this financially, spiritually and medically. Unfortunately, he had to survive another earthquake in the form of the Iranian Revolution at the end of 1978. Marsha and their daughters took the last Pan Am flight out of Tehran on the day after Christmas. Mahmood made it out on Easter weekend of 1979 after tending to casualties of both sides of the hostilities. They were united at the Savage family homestead in New Brunswick, Canada. Mahmood had the equivalent of $47 in his pocket. Always looking forward, he took a fellowship at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston under Denton Cooley from July 1979, and then worked as a general, thoracic and vascular surgeon at the Aroostook Medical Center (AMC) in Presque Isle, Maine, the town across the border from Centreville. After nine years as a mostly-solo practitioner with a splendid reputation for excellence in surgical care, Mahmood joined the four-man group of surgeons assembled by David Sensenig. For six more years, this surgical programme was fully funded under the auspices of US Senator George Mitchell of Maine, at the VA Hospital at Togus, Maine, where I first met him. We had a challenging and interesting practice covering the full scope of surgery except open heart surgery. After Senator Mitchell retired, the Togus inpatient programme was cut back and Mahmood and I were reassigned as part of the start-up crew for the newest VA Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1995. For five more clinical years at the VA, Mahmood became the go-to guy when patients presented for complex surgical intervention. He also returned to Iran on short sabbaticals to practise open heart surgery at a university hospital in Tehran and was appointed to the Iranian Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Ahmadi retired from the VA and clinical practice in 1999 mostly because of concerns about the hospital’s inefficient IT revolution. We remained close friends for another 20 years. I remember driving him to Hollywood, Florida, where I worked as a surgical oncologist so that he could observe his true passion, cardiac surgery, after a good breakfast in the physicians’ cafeteria. He eventually befriended every member of that department headed then by Michael Rosenbloom. He called them his cousins. Throughout his life, he maintained an interest in comparative religious philosophy, liturgy and history. He was a self-proclaimed Deist, Sufi and follower of the poet Rumi for most of his life, but accepted the sacraments of the Catholic faith just before his death. He befriended many clergy of nearly all denominations as his cousins as long as they shared his inherent honesty and concern for individuals. Many of us counted on his fatherly support as well as biblical knowledge to help us through difficult times. He honoured me, a colleague and friend for his last 30 years, by presiding during the funeral of my eldest son. As a young man, Ahmadi was an active and accomplished intercollegiate athlete, competing throughout the Middle East and Europe, as a champion weightlifter. He developed immensely appealing social skills, which, with his handsome countenance, muscular appearance and vitality, earned him a thick address book, of which he was proud. He was certainly not shy with the opposite sex. He was a polyglot by inclination and personal experience. Ahmadi passed away on 19 November 2019 at his home in Jupiter, Florida from a brief illness arising from acute myeloid leukaemia. He was 82. He was survived by his widow Marsha, three daughters, six grandchildren and dozens of devoted friends and colleagues. Ahmadi was truly a citizen of and surgeon to the world: all of his cousins like me really miss him.
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First Title value, for Searching Jarrett, Paul Eugene Marcus (1943- 2019)

2024-05-10T05:17:03Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-02-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Paul Jarrett was a consultant general surgeon at Kingston Hospital, London (1977 to 2003), a professor of day surgery and acute day care at Kingston University and St George’s Hospital Medical School (from 1996 to 2017) and a pioneer in the development of day care surgery. He was born in Blackburn, Lancashire on 18 February 1943, the only son of Maurice Eugene Decimus Jarrett, a research chemist in the paint industry and Mabel Doris Jarrett née Lake. He attended Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Blackburn and then Downing College, Cambridge and St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1967. He was a registrar in surgery at St Thomas’ Hospital and the Royal Hospital Wolverhampton, and then a senior registrar back at St Thomas’. In 1977 he was appointed as a consultant general surgeon with an interest in vascular surgery at Kingston. He was also medical director at Kingston for several years. In 1978 he developed plans for the opening of one of the UK’s first day surgery units at Kingston and, despite the suspicions of many in the medical profession, by the late 1980s the benefits were becoming clear. In 1988 Jarret and a consultant anaesthetist Tom Ogg met to plan the setting up of the British Association of Day Surgery; Jarrett was elected as the first chairman. He published and delivered 130 papers, was a member of the editorial board of the *Journal of One-Day Surgery* and joint editor-in-chief of *Ambulatory Surgery*. For the next two decades he was involved in the design and development of dozens of day unit throughout the UK and in 10 other countries. He was also an adviser to the Department of Health. In 1995 he was a founding member of the International Association for Ambulatory Surgery and president (from 1997 to 1999). He served on the boards of several public and private companies and was a founder trustee of a local hospice. He enjoyed collecting antiques, particularly clocks. In his retirement he learnt how to repair and restore clocks and became master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. He was also a freeman of the Company of Arts Scholars, Dealers and Collectors. He also enjoyed food, fine wine and travel. In 1966 he married his childhood sweetheart, Annie Wilson. Paul Jarrett died of cancer on 22 October 2019 at the age of 76. Annie survived him with their son, Michael, also a consultant surgeon, and three grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching MacLaren, Iain Ferguson (1927 - 2019)

2024-05-10T05:17:03Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-11-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Iain Ferguson MacLaren was born on 28 September 1927 in Edinburgh. His father, Patrick MacLaren, was a GP in a one man practice. Initially educated at the Edinburgh Academy, he won a scholarship to Fettes College in 1939. Proceeding to Edinburgh University, he qualified in medicine in 1949 and began work as a house surgeon to the distinguished surgeon Sir James Learmonth at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (ERI). The following year he was called up to do his National Service and he joined the army serving as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. As a member of the East Lancashire Fusiliers he spent time in Egypt and Cyprus, arriving at his posting in the Suez Canal on Christmas Day 1951. Although he enjoyed army life so much he thought of staying in the forces, he eventually returned to Edinburgh in 1952 and resumed his studies working as an anatomy demonstrator at the university. Following this, he spent a year assisting his father but felt that general practice was not for him and returned to the ERI. He passed the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) in 1955 and, the following year, while he was working as a surgical registrar at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (RHSC) in Edinburgh, his father persuaded him to have a chest x-ray which produced a diagnosis of tuberculosis. As it happened a renowned Edinburgh physician, Sir John Crofton, had recently developed what was known as the triple drug approach which was proving extremely successful and Iain made a full recovery, although it took 18 months before he was able to resume work at the RHSC. In 1959 he went back to the ERI for an eight year stint during which time he also spent a year in the USA at the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. He worked with John M. Howard, a veteran of the Korean War, who was reputedly the inspiration for the character Hawkeye Peirce in the tv series M*A*S*H. Howard by then was known to be an expert in vascular and pancreatic surgery. Appointed consultant general surgeon to the Deaconess Hospital in Edinburgh in 1967, he was there for seven years before returning to the ERI in 1974. From then until his retirement in 1992 he worked principally at the ERI, but also at the Leith and Deaconess Hospitals and he is said to have enjoyed the contrast between the formal atmosphere of the ERI and the more relaxed ethos at the other hospitals. He was an examiner for the RCSEd and their vice-president from 1983 to 1986. He travelled widely as an examiner and inspector of hospitals and as a guest lecturer, visiting Iraq, Libya, Zimbabwe, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Nepal and Myanmar, among others. As head of the professional and linguistic assessments board of the General Medical Council from 1984 to 1999, he was closely involved in checking the fitness to practice of foreign doctors wishing to work in the UK. With a lifelong enthusiasm for history he helped to organise the museum at the RCSEd and, with Ian Macintyre co-wrote *Surgeon’s lives; an anthology of college fellows over 500 years* (Edinburgh, RCSEd, 2005), which was published to mark the college’s Quincentenary celebrations. He was president of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh, the Old Fettesian Association and Edinburgh University Graduates Association. Both his parents spoke Gaelic and he was vastly knowledgeable about Celtic history and particularly about the Clan MacLaren. Chair of the Clan MacLaren Society for many years, in 1991 at the Lochearnhead Highland Games he was invested as chieftain. He was also a music lover and a great fan of the bagpipes, having been a member of the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society since 1945. Apparently he was responsible for piping the turkey at Christmas in several local hospitals. In 1967 he married Fiona née Heptonstall who had been working in a ward next to his at the Deaconess Hospital. They had two children, Catriona and Patrick. A gregarious and sociable man, he developed Parkinson’s disease and died on 3 October 2019 aged 92, survived by his wife, children and four grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Mitchell, Robert Mervyn (1925 - 2019)

2024-05-10T05:17:03Z

by Chris Mitchell
Publication Date 2021-07-05
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Occupation General surgeon Thyroid surgeon Breast surgeon
Details Robert Mitchell qualified in Medicine at the University of Otago gaining the Gold Medal in Anatomy and the Senior Scholarship in Medicine. He undertook the BMedSci and his degree thesis, postnatal development in the rat adrenal, was published in 1948 and attracted interest. This demonstrated his early enthusiasm and aptitude for research. He was awarded a New Zealand Universities Travelling Scholarship to the United Kingdom and worked his passage over as a ship’s doctor in early 1952. He was employed as a Registrar at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. Whilst in England, he obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. On returning to New Zealand in 1953 he worked as a Senior Surgical Registrar, later Senior Lecturer in the Department of Surgery, University of Otago. During this time he developed an interest in renal research demonstrated through publications with Michael Woodruff. In 1959 he became Reader in Surgery at the University of Queensland and surgeon in the Royal Brisbane Hospital. His enthusiasm for medical research led him in 1964 to be awarded a Carnegie Travel Grant to study surgical techniques and the teaching of surgery in medical schools in the United States and Canada. This he combined with a sabbatical year as Research Fellow in Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Harvey Cushing Fellow in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. In the Peter Bent Brigham, with Joseph Murray’s team, he was amongst the international vanguard of the rapidly developing research into preventing rejection in renal transplantation. This work included early study of whether antilymphocyte serum was effective as an immunosuppressive agent for homografts. The work he did in Boston resulted in papers published with Joseph Murray (subsequently 1990 Nobel 1 prizewinner for the development of kidney and bone-marrow transplants) and focused much of his subsequent surgical career. Following his return to Brisbane in 1965 he worked in the Princess Alexandra Hospital and was Acting Professor of Surgery University of Queensland. In 1967 he was appointed to the Foundation Chair of Surgery at the University of Tasmania, a position he held until 1977. During this time he undertook responsibility for setting up the new Department of Surgery in Hobart. He performed the first renal transplantations in Tasmania. In 1977 he moved to a Chair of Surgery at the University of New South Wales where, at St George Hospital, he specialised in thyroid and breast surgery. His other roles included Director of the Australian Kidney Foundation, Chairman of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee of the Australian Kidney Foundation, Member of the Examinations Committee of the Australian Medical Council, Chairman of the Cancer Care Committee at St George Hospital, Member of the National Health & Medical Research Council Scientific Committee and President of the Surgical Research Society. Following his retirement from surgery in 1987, he was Visiting Surgeon and Chairman of the Quality Committee of the Division of Surgery at St George Hospital. In 2001 he became Emeritus Professor, University of New South Wales. He undertook medico-legal consultant work in Sydney from 1988 until he moved to his retirement home in Ballina in 2002. He retained his life-long interest and devotion to medical research but was then also able to more fully enjoy his oil painting, boating and international travel. Robert Mitchell was born in Thames, New Zealand on 6th December 1925, to parents Jack and Florence (née Hockenhull). He was the eldest of three children. Through hard work and a love of learning he became Dux of Thames High School and won a scholarship to study in Auckland from where he was successful in getting into the University of Otago. His father Jack was a school woodwork teacher and Robert became the first member of his family to study at university. A love of woodworking and appreciation of practical skills was his inheritance from his father and remained with him throughout his life. Robert Mitchell was widely regarded as a concerned and caring practitioner and by his students as a fine teacher. His wife Ruth (née Adams) was his contemporary at medical school and an accomplished mountaineer who had been one of the four who had climbed the South Ridge of Mt Cook for the first time in 1948. She later excelled in the field of Pathology and electron microscopy. She pre-deceased him in 1990. They had three children. Robert Mitchell passed away peacefully on 20th September 2019 in Ballina.
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