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First Title value, for Searching Muir, Fiona May (1971 - 2015)

2024-05-18T13:46:33Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2017-06-09
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Occupation Hand surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Fiona Muir was a consultant orthopaedic hand surgeon at the Sussex Orthopaedic Treatment Centre. She was born on 9 August 1971 and studied medicine at Bristol University, qualifying in 1994. She gained her FRCS in 1998 and prior to her consultant appointment was a specialist registrar at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. She died on 3 February 2015 at the age of 43.
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First Title value, for Searching Cobbett, John Robey (1930 - 2016)

2024-05-18T13:46:33Z

by Roger Green
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2016-04-15
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Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Reconstructive surgeon
Details John Robey Cobbett was a consultant plastic surgeon at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, and Lewisham Hospital. He was born on 5 May 1930, the third son of Claude Racster Cobbett, a company director, and Constance Evelyn Anne Cobbett née Robey. From the age of four, following the death of his mother, his step-mother steered him into medicine. While she was not qualified herself, her father and three of her siblings were doctors. He attended Charterhouse School, where he won prizes in physics and chemistry, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His clinical studies were undertaken at the London Hospital. He was a house surgeon at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, where he saw the work being done by Sir Archibald McIndoe and was inspired to become a plastic and reconstructive surgeon. He trained in general surgery with Sir Alan Parks at the Royal Free Hospital, gaining his FRCS in 1962, and then returned to East Grinstead as a senior registrar in plastic surgery. He was appointed as a consultant plastic surgeon at East Grinstead and Lewisham in 1968. As part of the research programme at East Grinstead, John Cobbett became interested in the techniques of small vessel anastomosis. He won a Moynihan travelling scholarship in 1966, which enabled him to visit other units around the world with similar interests. He is credited as being one of the first to have completed a single stage microvascular transfer of a great toe to reconstruct a thumb in 1968. He was a founder member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He served on the council of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons from 1975 to 1977, and was honorary secretary, also from 1975 to 1977. John married Pamela Irma Bower in 1952 and they had three children, Peter John Robey, Susan Robey and David Charles Robey, six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. He retired in 1995 to enjoy his hobbies of boat building, carpentry and jewellery making. Sadly, he developed Pick's disease in 2005. John Cobbett died on 19 January 2016, at the age of 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Stewart Hamilton (1912 - 2011)

2024-05-18T13:46:33Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-09 2015-03-06
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Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Stewart Harrison was a leading consultant plastic surgeon and a former president of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He was born in Highgate, London, on 15 July 1912, the second son of Archibald Harrison, a manufacturer, and Marion Harrison née Taylor. Both his parents died when he was a young child and he was brought up by his maternal grandparents in Dunblane, Scotland. He was educated at Stanley House School, Bridge of Allan, and then studied medicine and dentistry at Edinburgh University. He was a house surgeon at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester. During the Second World War he spent five years as a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps, in Nigeria and in north-west Europe. Following his demobilisation, he joined the Birmingham Accident Hospital and started his career in plastic surgery. He trained with Sir Harold Gillies and Rainsford Mowlem at Mount Vernon Hospital, and spent much of his career at Wexham Park Hospital in Berkshire, where he developed the plastic surgery unit there. Throughout his career he pioneered several new surgical techniques. In 1949 he and Gillies carried out an innovative operation to reconstruct the face of a patient born with a recessed upper jaw, which involved moving the middle third of the face forward. Later, he developed an operation to help children born with upper limb deformities, particularly as a result of their mothers using Thalidomide. He transferred the index finger to the normal position of the thumb, enabling the patient to pinch and hold, meaning the child could write and feed themselves. He also improved treatments for people with rheumatoid arthritis, finding ways of stabilising joints, and for people with tendon injuries to the finger. In 1979 he was a Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a founder member of the Hand Club, which became the British Society for Surgery of the Hand in 1968. He was president of the Society in 1972 and of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1976. After he had retired from the NHS, he became the first president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. In 1943 he married Phyllis Eustace and they had a son. Stewart Harrison died on 12 May 2011, aged 98.
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First Title value, for Searching Wakefield, Alan Ross (1917 - 1985)

2024-05-18T13:46:33Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2011-11-30 2013-04-24
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Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Alan Ross Wakefield, known as 'The Vicar', was an Australian plastic and hand surgeon of international renown. He will be particularly remembered for writing, with Sir Benjamin Keith Rank, the classic text *Surgery of repair as applied to hand injuries, etc* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone), first published in 1953 with three further editions. The importance and value of this book extends beyond 'the hand': the classification the authors introduced of wounds into 'tidy' and 'untidy' continues to be cited in most papers and books on trauma. The son of George Thomas and Florence Ann Wakefield, he was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and then at the medical school at Melbourne, qualifying in 1941. On completion of his basic training, he joined the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps and served in New Guinea, Brisbane and Heidelberg Military Hospital, where he joined the No 2 maxillofacial and plastic unit. It was here he learnt his plastic surgery from Rank. Wakefield ended his military service in 1946 as a captain and with the Pacific Star medal. Following his demobilisation, he became an honorary assistant plastic surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and passed his MS and FRACS in 1947. He then travelled to the United Kingdom and spent a year training in plastic surgery. He passed his FRCS in 1948. He returned to Melbourne, as a plastic surgeon at the Royal Children's Hospital and at the Repatriation Hospital, Heidelberg. As head of the plastic surgery department at the Royal Children's Hospital he successfully developed the hospital's reputation, especially for cleft lip repair. As well as his epic work on hand injuries, he published work on cleft lip and palate, and on intersex problems. On trips to the United States he developed many long-lasting contacts. In 1964 he was invited to give the founder's lecture at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. In later years, he retired from private practice, but retained his Royal Children's Hospital appointment. When his role there ended, he became medical director of the Victorian Plastic Surgery Unit. He was also a farmer, and bred sheep and cattle. He was president of the Murray Grey Beef Cattle Society, and did much to develop this new breed of beef cattle. He also grew roses and was a keen exhibitor and show judge. He married twice. By his first wife, Mary, he had four children and six grandchildren. His second wife was Valerie. Alan Ross Wakefield died following a long illness on 22 July 1985 at his home in San Remo, Victoria, Australia.
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First Title value, for Searching Schjelderup, Halfdan ( - 1991)

2024-05-18T13:46:33Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details On Dr Schjelderup's admission to the Honorary Fellowship in 1982, the following citation was delivered by Ian Muir FRCS: 'Dr Schjelderup graduated in medicine in Oslo in 1938 and started training in surgery in Bergen, but in the following year he joined the Royal Norwegian Navy and served during the war, and for this service he received his country's commendation in the form of the Norwegian Service Medal. After the cessation of hostilities the occupying authorities disapproved of his activities and in December 1944 he had to leave Norway and transfer to Britain by the clandestine and dangerous route known as the 'Shetland bus'. Shortly after his arrival in Britain he decided to train in reconstructive surgery and he joined Sir Harold Gillies at Rooksdown House in Basingstoke for three years and returned to Norway in1947. 'During his time in England he and his charming wife Ida made many friends and many British and Commonwealth patients now owe their lives and their livelihood to his skill and care. 'In 1946 he attended a dinner at the College at which Lord Webb-Johnson was the guest of honour and it was then that the seed was sown which grew to be the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. He has therefore been associated with the Association since its very beginnings and has been a most welcome and active member, attending on many occasions and contributing to many of the scientific sessions. He has been a leading pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery in his own country and has been particularly active in advancing the treatment of injuries of the hand, burns, and congenital conditions of the face such as cleft lip and palate. He developed his unit in Bergen from small beginnings to become a fully staffed department of the University Hospital providing a service to patients from well to the south of Bergen to the extreme north of the country right up to the Russian border, a distance of nearly 1000 miles as the crow flies. This has been a mammoth undertaking considering the difficulties of communication over this widespread area. In hand surgery he himself pays a special tribute to Sterling Bunnell, whom he visited in 1948. His unit in Bergen is now recognised as the premier department in Norway for surgery of the hand. It also undertakes an extensive teaching commitment for both undergraduate and postgraduates. 'He is a recipient of the Gillies memorial gold medal of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and is a corresponding member of ten learned societies in Europe. The highest honour of his career came in 1974 when, as a tribute from his countrymen the King of Norway awarded him the Knighthood first class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olaf, the highest Norwegian civil honour. 'Mr President, all of us who know Dr Schjelderup are delighted that the Council has recommended his election to the Honorary Fellowship and we are confident that his election can only add to our own stature.
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First Title value, for Searching Kaplan, Isidore (1927 - 1977)

2024-05-18T13:46:33Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-16
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Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Isidore Kaplan was born in Balfour, Transvaal, on 25 February 1927, and was educated at Jeppe High School, Johannesburg, and at the University of Cape Town, where he graduated MB ChB in 1951. At UCT he captained the Cricket First XI for three successive years and received the Jameson Award for services to sport. At this time too, he was one of the founders of the annual university cricket week. After three years at Addington Hospital in Durban, he proceeded to the United Kingdom, where he worked at Birmingham Accident Hospital and at the Postgraduate Medical School, London. He obtained the FRCS Ed in 1957 and the FRCS in 1958. After a residency in plastic surgery at Edinburgh University, he spent 1960-62 in Pittsburgh, USA, as resident and teaching fellow under Dr William L White. His research there on circumferential burns earned him an honourable mention from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. On returning to South Africa in September 1962, he rapidly built up a very extensive practice as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon. It was in the field of hand surgery that Kaplan became an internationally renowned figure, publishing extensively in the world literature and contributing chapters to several textbooks. He was a prime mover in the formation of the South Africa Society for Surgery of the Hand, of which he became President in 1970. In addition to prominence in the hand surgery and plastic surgery societies of many lands, he was President of the Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of South Africa from 1972 to 1974. In 1967 and 1973, Kaplan was one of the first South African doctors to go to Israel to give freely of his skills in the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli conflicts. As founder of the Israel Hand Society, he enjoyed a particularly high reputation in that country, and subsequently organized the visit of Israeli experts to the conference on military medicine held at UNISA in 1975. In his chosen fields, Kaplan displayed all the hallmarks of a great surgeon, a meticulous attention to detail in history-taking and clinical notation; preparation for and carrying out of an operation that never allowed for short-cuts or lapses from his strict self-imposed discipline, and a superb operative technique. Inside the theatre and out, his relationships with colleagues, nurses and especially his patients were exemplary. Latterly Isidore Kaplan pioneered in South Africa the operation of total submaxillary salivary gland excision and posterior relocation of the parotid ducts. The dramatic conversion of 'drooling' spastic patients with their bibs permanently sodden with saliva to an almost overnight dry state was tremendously rewarding emotionally to all associated with the procedure and this was perhaps the most satisfying achievement of his later career. He was married and had a young family. He died in New York on 25 February 1977 on his fiftieth birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Frederic Thomas (1913 - 1983)

2024-05-18T13:46:33Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-24
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Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Born on 19 October 1913, "Gerry" as he was known to everyone, was a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1936 and by 1939 he had obtained his Edinburgh Fellowship. After joining the RAF he showed an early interest in burns and especially those involving the hands. In 1944 he was sent to East Grinstead to work with Archibald Mclndoe who had set up a plastic and maxillo-facial unit there for war injuries. Severe face and hand injuries were seen in pilots at that time and under Sir Harold Gillies's guidance he was soon doing pioneer work on the treatment, reconstruction and rehabilitation of these patients. At that time he was the senior medical serving officer at the hospital. He had obtained his "wings" in the RAF and would occasionally pilot a plane to pick up seriously injured casualties. By the end of the war he had been awarded the Légion d'Honneur and was later appointed OBE. In 1945 he obtained his FRCS and joined the honorary staff at both East Grinstead and King's College Hospital; with the introduction of the NHS he became a consultant at both hospitals. Always an independent spirit and no respecter of authority, he carried on some unusual and often successful lines of research. He was a founder member of the Bristol Hand Club and an early member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons serving as a member of the BAPS Council in 1949. Next to hand surgery he had a special interest in correcting palatal abnormalities associated with speech defects and was associated with the Moor House School of Speech Therapy. In 1957 a former patient of his broke into his house at midnight and threatened to shoot him because he was dissatisfied with the result of Moore's operation on his nose. The surgeon poured them both drinks and, after the man had had several, managed to grab the loaded revolver and telephone the police! He was married to the actress Greta Gynt by whom he had a daughter. He was a keen sailor and a member of the Royal Thames and Monaco Yacht Clubs. He died on 21 June 1983 aged 69 years, survived by his wife and daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007526
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First Title value, for Searching Barron, John Netterville (1911 - 1992)

2024-05-18T13:46:33Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details John Barron was born in Napier, New Zealand on 23 December 191 1. He was educated at Wangunui and Otago where he was a rowing blue and a champion skier, and also attained a civil pilot's licence. He qualified in 1937, was house surgeon at Christchurch Hospital, and then went to Britain for surgical training in 1938. He was resident surgical officer at the Royal Masonic Hospital, later becoming first assistant to Rainsford Mowlem at Hill End, St Albans. He obtained the FRCS Edinburgh in 1940. Towards the end of the war at the instigation of Winston Churchill the Foreign Office invited him to go to Yugoslavia to provide surgical services for Marshal Tito and his partisans. Afterwards he set up a 120-bed hospital in Belgrade for reconstructive surgery, also training the staff to man it. In 1946 he returned to England to work with Sir Harold Gillies at Park Prewett, and then as senior lecturer at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, where he researched the blood supply of skin flaps. He was appointed the first Director of the Wessex Regional Plastic and Maxillo-Facial Unit in Odstock in 1949. Soon his travelling and lecturing attracted trainees from all over the world, and established his unit as a national centre. His main interests were reconstructive surgery and surgery of the hand, and he took a close interest in the disabilities which resulted from injuries of the hand and upper limb. Largely as a result of this interest he co-founded the rehabilitation service for workers at Vauxhall Motors, Luton, in 1942. A tragic accident which resulted in the loss of an eye ended his surgical career, but gave him time to finish a three-volume textbook on plastic surgery, *Operative, plastic and reconstructive surgery* (1980). His services in Yugoslavia were rewarded by Tito with the Yugoslav Flag with Golden Wreath in 1975, followed by the inauguration of the Barron Institute for Plastic Surgery at the University of Ljublana in 1976. He received the Honorary FRCS in 1975 and the Honorary MS of the University of Southampton in 1976. He was three times President of the British Association of Plastic Surgery and was also President of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He was a keen gardener, *cordon bleu* cook, cabinet-maker and wine-maker. He died at the age of 80, predeceased by his wife Joan, and survived by their son and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Ratcliffe, Robert James (1957 - 2000)

2024-05-18T13:46:33Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-02
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Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Bob Ratcliffe was a consultant in plastic, hand and reconstructive surgery at Canniesburn Hospital, Glasgow. He was born on 15 June 1957 at St Helens, Lancashire, the son of Robert Ernest Ratcliffe, an electrician, and Jean Elizabeth née Worrall. As a child he was interested in mechanical objects, was extremely patient and had enviable manual dexterity, skills he would use in his later life. He went to Cowley Boys Grammar School, St Helens, where he gained the school physics prize, and the University of Manchester, where he took an honours BSc in anatomy, and gained honours in anatomy, pharmacology, pathology and surgery in the MB. He was a keen sportsman, enjoying rugby, skiing and hill-walking. After graduating in 1981, he was a house physician at the University of South Manchester Hospital, and house surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He then demonstrated anatomy under P F Harris while he studied for the primary. He did junior surgical posts at Manchester and at the Christie Hospital, where he became interested in reconstructive surgery after treatment for cancer. He was appointed registrar in general surgery in Manchester after passing his FRCS, and then specialised in plastic surgery at the Welsh Regional Centre for Plastic and Burns Surgery and Maxillofacial Surgery at Chepstow, where he became interested in hand surgery under Phil Sykes. He returned to Manchester as a senior house officer in plastic surgery in March 1988 at the Regional Centre for Plastic Surgery at Booth Hall Hospital, where he was influenced by Peter Craig. In November 1988 he was appointed registrar in plastic surgery at the West of Scotland Regional Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery Unit, Canniesburn Hospital, Glasgow, and two years later was appointed to the plastic surgery and jaw injury service at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury. He joined the consultant staff at Canniesburn in 1993 as a consultant plastic surgeon with a special interest in hand surgery. Despite an ever increasingly clinical workload, he was also actively involved in administration and management. He was a member of the specialty board in plastic surgery for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and had been acting clinical director for the West of Scotland Regional Plastic Surgery Service. He was actively involved in setting up a plastic surgical service in Ghana, spending his leave working there to build up the unit and train the staff. In 1984 he married Karen Margaret Anne Todd, a nurse. They had two daughters, Katie and Hannah, and a son, Nicholas. He died while out hill-walking in Scotland, on 19 February 2000. A Robert J Ratcliffe fellowship has been established to assist trainees in plastic surgery.
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