Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Head and neck surgeon

First Title value, for Searching Cawood, Roderick Hugh (1942 - 2023)

2024-05-05T10:09:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-12-13
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon Head and neck surgeon
Details Roderick Hugh Cawood was a consultant otolaryngologist at Peterborough City Hospital
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First Title value, for Searching Rhys Evans, Peter Howell (1948 - 2022)

2024-05-05T10:09:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-09-21
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Occupation Otolaryngologist Head and neck surgeon ENT surgeon
Details Peter Rhys-Evans was a consultant otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London and the founder of the Oracle Cancer Trust. 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
Resource Identifier RCS: E010159
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First Title value, for Searching O’Brien, Christopher John (1952 - 2009)

2024-05-05T10:09:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-07-06
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Occupation Head and neck surgeon
Details Christopher John O’Brien was a professor of surgery at the University of Sydney and director of the Sydney Head and Neck Cancer Institute. 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
Resource Identifier RCS: E010329
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First Title value, for Searching Sharp, Malcolm (1933 - 2014)

2024-05-05T10:09:16Z

by Dodi Sharp
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-11-03
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Occupation ENT surgeon Head and neck surgeon
Details Malcolm Sharp was a consultant ENT surgeon with a special interest in head and neck surgery at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, St George's Hospital, Tooting and the Royal Marsden Hospital, London. Following a visit to the United States to Duke University, North Carolina and Penn University, Philadelphia, he introduced, for the first time in UK, day surgery at St Helier Hospital for a range of ENT operations, including tonsillectomy. He was born on 30 June 1933 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, the second child of Abraham Sharp (known as 'Arthur'), who managed a shoe shop, and Deborah Sharp née Zack. Having started in primary school in Stamford Hill, London, he, with the onset of the Second World War, was evacuated with his older sister, Sybil, to Yaxley near Cambridge. Later he won a scholarship to Westminster City School. Trained at University College Medical School, where he successfully produced a Christmas show entitled 'The fallopians', he qualified in 1956 and was appointed as a house physician in Newcastle, before returning to University College Hospital as a house surgeon. Malcolm Sharp then gained experience in general surgery and orthopaedics. He was influenced by Peter London at the Birmingham Accident Hospital and by Norman Tanner at Charing Cross Hospital. With this strong background in general surgery and orthopaedics, Malcolm Sharp decided that his anatomical surgical field should be the head and neck. To this end he was trained at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray's Inn Road and was influenced by Donald Harrison. Malcolm Sharp was first and foremost a clinician; he chaired his district management team and took part in teaching medical students from St George's Hospital. He enjoyed travel, particularly within Europe and the USA, was a sociable, humorous man who loved the company of family and friends, and was a keen and knowledgeable gardener. He liked music, in particular opera, and was an enthusiastic painter and photographer. In June 1966 he married Deborah ('Dodi') Bierer, who later became a consultant anaesthetist at St Helier Hospital, Sutton Hospital and the Nelson Hospital in Wimbledon. She lived in Israel for 17 years and served as a sergeant in the Israeli army for two years, before going to the UK to read medicine at the Charing Cross Medical School, qualifying in 1964. She represented the fifth generation of doctors in her family. They had three children - Amanda, co-founder of the Frieze Art fair, Julia, a specialist in European Union/competition laws and Gideon, a corporate city lawyer. There are eight grandchildren. Malcolm Sharp died from hepatocellular cancer on 13 July 2014. He was 81.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006148
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First Title value, for Searching Shepperd, Harold Walter Henry (1924 - 2013)

2024-05-05T10:09:16Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2014-08-15 2016-11-03
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Occupation Head and neck surgeon Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Harold Walter Henry Shepperd was a consultant otolaryngologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast with a special interest in head and neck surgery. He was born in Belfast on 24 May 1924, the first child of Reginald Henry Shepperd, a director of Ulster bank, and Kathleen Maude Shepperd née West. He was educated at Brackenber House School, Belfast, and then Campbell College, where he was head prefect, and subsequently studied medicine at Queen's University. He qualified in 1947. He was a house officer at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. Deciding on a career in surgery, he trained in Belfast and at the Middlesex Hospital. In 1959 he was appointed to a consultant post at four hospitals close to Belfast, and then in 1966 he moved to the Royal Victoria Hospital and Lagan Valley Hospital, Lisburn. He retired in 1989. He was secretary and later president (from 1985 to 1986) of the section of laryngology, Royal Society of Medicine, and was president of the Irish Otolaryngological Society. He had the distinction of simultaneously chairing the otorhinolaryngology board of examiners of both the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and Ireland. He was an active member of the Royal Naval Reserve, becoming a surgeon commander and senior reserve officer on HMS *Caroline*. He also enjoyed hill walking and photography. He married Cecilia Mary Carr in 1957. Her father was a general practitioner and came from a family of four generations of doctors. They had two sons and a daughter who trained as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital. This marriage ended in divorce in 1970. His second marriage was to Madeleine June Whitely. Harold Walter Henry Shepperd died on 20 November 2013. He was 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Henry Jagoe (1922 - 2007)

2024-05-05T10:09:16Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2008-08-28
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Occupation Head and neck surgeon Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Henry Shaw was a pre-eminent otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon. He was born in Stafford on 16 March 1922, the son of Benjamin Henry Shaw, a physician, psychiatrist, artist and fisherman, and Adelaide née Hardy, who became a JP and Staffordshire County councillor. His father came from a distinguished Anglo-Irish family with one relative an army surgeon at Waterloo, another in the 32nd Foot in the same campaign; George Bernard Shaw was an ancestor. Educated at Summer Fields School, Oxford, and Eton College, Henry Shaw read medicine at Oxford University and the Radcliffe Infirmary, where he held junior appointments. Perhaps influenced by R G Macbeth and G Livingstone, otolaryngologists at Oxford, he became registrar and senior registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear (RNTNE) Hospital and Guy’s Hospital, London. He was appointed to a Hunterian professorship at the College (1951). After a fellowship and residency at the Sloan Memorial Hospital, New York (1953 to 1954), Henry Shaw was appointed assistant director of the professorial unit and senior lecturer at the RNTNE Hospital and the Institute of Laryngology and Otology. During this time he spent a further year in New York as senior resident at the Bellvue Hospital. In 1962 he was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the RNTNE Hospital. This appointment was combined with a consultancy at the Royal Marsden Hospital, an honorary consultancy to St Mary’s Hospital and the post of ENT surgeon to the Civil Government and St Bernard’s Hospital, Gibraltar. In addition he was civilian consultant ENT surgeon to the Royal Navy. He retired in 1988. Henry Shaw’s professional life was devoted to the care of those suffering from cancer of the head and neck. His appointments at the Royal Marsden and RNTNE Hospital enabled him to lead the field in this aspect of otolaryngology. He wrote many publications, lectured nationally and internationally, and became a founder member and treasurer of the Association of Head and Neck Oncologists of Great Britain, president of the section of laryngology, Royal Society of Medicine, member of council, executive committee and professional care committee of the Marie Curie Cancer Care Foundation and a member of the Armed Services Consultant Appointment board. During the Second World War Henry Shaw served as a surgeon lieutenant in the RNVR. He continued in the Royal Naval Reserve, advancing to surgeon lieutenant commander. He was awarded the Volunteer Reserve Decoration in 1970. Henry Shaw was a gentlemanly person who achieved a great deal in a quiet way. He was never happier than when sailing boats of any kind. His long family association with St Mawes in Cornwall (where he eventually retired) enabled him to indulge fully in this hobby. He married Susan Patricia Head (née Ramsey) in 1967. They had no children of their own, but he gained a stepson and stepdaughter. The marriage was dissolved in 1984 and he married Daphne Joan Hayes (née Charney) in 1988, from whom he gained a further two stepdaughters. He died on 1 August 2007.
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First Title value, for Searching Freeman, Richard Peter (1925 - 2015)

2024-05-05T10:09:16Z

by Vincent Cousins
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2016-02-22
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Occupation Head and neck surgeon Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Peter Freeman had been School Captain and Head Cadet at Hutchins School in Hobart and qualified in Medicine at Melbourne University (MBBS) in 1948. As a young graduate he worked in General Practice in St Kilda for a couple of years but had a clinical appointment at The Alfred Hospital and was influenced by his boss Noel Box to become an ENT Surgeon. He went off alone to England to study for a year or so and passed the Fellowship of the College of Surgeons there in 1955. This was a separation driven by commitment to succeed - as he did. Lesley and Richard joined him soon after and he spent two further years in London and Northampton gaining valuable surgical experience before returning to Melbourne and The Alfred Hospital in 1957. He gained his Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 1959. At The Alfred he was visiting specialist and long term Head of the ENT Unit until he retired from the public hospital system in 1985. He had a collaborative approach to the management of patients with complex conditions and worked well with surgeons and specialists of other disciplines. This approach led to the beginning of skull base surgery at the hospital. He inspired numerous young residents to train as ENT Surgeons. He was also responsible for the establishment of the hearing and balance investigation department at the hospital in the 1980s. This was a highly sophisticated diagnostic facility, which was the first and only one of its kind in Melbourne for many years. He served as Chairman of Medical Staff at The Alfred, he was involved in various Committees, and was a pro-active member of the Planning Group responsible for the new ward block, keen to ensure that the interests of patients and staff were best served. He served as a Member of the Board of Management from 1984 to 1987. Peter had a number of national roles in ENT. He was a Member and then Chair of the National Training Board and Examiner for final Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He was President of the Otolaryngology Society of Australia from 1977 to 1979 and later awarded Life Membership of the Australian Society of Oto-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, as it became. Peter was a member of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve for 35 years and attained the very senior rank of Surgeon Captain. During this time, he was Senior ENT Consultant to the Royal Australian Navy and long term national ENT Advisor to the Director-General of Naval Health Services. As part of his clinical role in the Navy he was involved in treating naval divers who had suffered inner ear damage in the course of their work and also produced some significant scientific publications on this condition. He earned multiple military decorations during his navy service. Peter served as Honorary Otologist and Board Member of the Victorian School for Deaf Children over many years and was made a Life Governor of The School in 1992. He had a significant international profile. He was well known and respected by a wide group of senior ENT Surgeons in the UK, Europe and America - a number of whom became his friends. He visited them when overseas at surgical conferences and was successful in having many of them come to Australia, regarded as a relatively remote destination in those days, to lecture and teach our trainees and surgeons, providing world class instruction for them at home. Over the years, his professional connections in the Northern Hemisphere enabled many young ENT surgeons to secure advanced surgical fellowships in various overseas departments in a wide range of sub-disciplines. They subsequently brought new experience and expertise back to Australia. With two or three other senior Australian ENT surgeons, Peter maintained contact in America over many years with Ms Barbara Williams, the widow of a fellow ENT Surgeon. Their long and trusted association contributed to the establishment of The Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation in Australia in the mid 1980s - a great gift to Australia. This is now one of the world's major philanthropic bodies in medicine, supporting research and practice in ENT Surgery and related fields. He served as a Trustee, Chairman of the Board and then Chairman of Trustees in his 25 years with the Foundation and was awarded their inaugural Foundation Gold Medal in 2012. Peter was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the year 2000 for his extensive contribution to Otolaryngology. Peter Freeman was a leader, and he led from the front. He was a force to be reckoned with, but a force for good. He has had a great influence on the specialty of ENT or Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in Australia and this has directly and indirectly benefited many thousands of our patients. His has left an enduring legacy.
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First Title value, for Searching Cox, Hugh Jeremy (1956 - 2017)

2024-05-05T10:09:16Z

by Gareth John
Publication Date 2017-11-02 2018-03-21
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Occupation ENT surgeon Head and neck surgeon Naval surgeon
Details Hugh Cox was an ear, nose and throat surgeon in Poole, Dorset whose main interest was head and neck surgery. He was born in Chatham, Kent, to Derek Joseph Cox, a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy, and Joan Cox, a nurse originally from south Wales. He had three siblings - David and twins Sian and Christopher. Hugh attended the Monterey Preparatory School in Cape Town, St John's Preparatory School in Porthcawl and finally Portsmouth Grammar School. He did his preclinical course at King's College, London and then went on to the Westminster Hospital for his clinical course. He was a member of the Westminster Hospital Sailing Club and was in the United Hospitals Sailing Team. He qualified in 1980. His first house job was at the Westminster group of hospitals. On his first day as a house officer at the Gordon Hospital he met a recently-qualified staff nurse, Lynne, who was to become his wife. By the time he moved to his second job in Guildford, Lynne had moved to Bristol Royal Hospital for Children for further training, and the relationship necessitated a good deal of travelling. Hugh next took up a one-year orthopaedics and accident and emergency rotation in Brighton, followed by an 18-month surgical rotation in Portsmouth. In 1986 Hugh joined the Royal Naval Reserve in the rank of surgeon lieutenant commander. He transferred to the Royal Navy with a regular commission in 1988. His sole general duties posting was as a medical officer in HMS *Nottingham*. During his time at sea the ship took part in a Gulf patrol and was present during a royal visit to the Far East and a heads of Commonwealth conference in Malaysia. After the required general training, Hugh specialised in ENT surgery. He obtained the FRCS in both general surgery and in otolaryngology. After two years as an ENT registrar at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar he took up senior registrar jobs in Southampton, the Royal Marsden and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. He was promoted to surgeon commander towards the end of his higher surgical training, and he was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar in late 1994, where he was the lead clinician for both head and neck surgery and paediatric ENT surgery. He also had honorary consultant status at Portsmouth and Southampton hospitals, where he held clinics. He taught on the underwater medicine course and also on the training programmes for Royal Naval medical officers and medical assistants. He was the consultant adviser in otorhinolaryngology to the medical director general (Naval) from 1997 to 1999. With the establishment of cancer centres in the early 1990s and the transfer of paediatric services to the NHS, Hugh found it difficult to pursue his clinical interests at Haslar and he was granted premature voluntary release from the Royal Navy in early 2000. He rejoined the Royal Naval Reserve at the end of the year and contributed to the visiting ENT clinics at the Royal Naval Hospital, Gibraltar until 2006. After leaving the Navy, Hugh was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon at Yeovil District Hospital and Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester. He and his family settled in a village in rural West Dorset. However, Hugh's main interest was head and neck surgery and the main cancer centre for Dorset was in the east of the county, at Poole Hospital. In 2000, we were looking to expand the ENT department in Poole, and in particular we were looking to appoint a surgeon with an interest in head and neck cancer surgery. ENT is a small specialty, and we were delighted when Hugh applied for our new post in Poole. He joined the ENT department in Poole in 2001, but continued to live in West Dorset and continued to do a head and neck clinic in Dorchester. As well as his head and neck commitment, Hugh did a weekly paediatric ENT clinic at Poole. Hugh was a very reliable, conscientious and supportive doctor and colleague. Patients were always given the time that they needed in his clinic, and his clinics were notorious for over-running! Patients rarely complained of the wait to see him. He was always happy to provide a courteous second opinion to a difficult clinical problem, and I can personally attest to the value of his thoughts, both on the ward and in theatre. Though very committed clinically, he was a keen cyclist and hill walker and a lover of books on a wide range of subjects. In 2004, he somehow found time to complete a law degree with the Open University. Unfortunately, in February 2015, he was involved in a road traffic accident while cycling. He was found unconscious after what seemed to have been a hit and run encounter with a vehicle, which was never identified. He sustained a head injury and several significant fractures. Though he returned to work, he was unable to return to his full operating schedule. In retrospect, this very conscientious doctor perhaps took more care of his patients than of himself. He failed to attend his clinic on 20 June 2017. This was most out of character, and the alarm was raised promptly. At his inquest, the coroner described Hugh as an intelligent man, who 'always went the extra mile for all those he cared for'. He was 60 when he died. The cause of death was drowning, details of which were provided at the coroners' inquest (see attached reference). He was survived by his wife, Lynne, three adult children (Jonathan, Matthew and Victoria) and a grandson (Daniel). Matthew is a doctor. Over 200 people attended his memorial service.
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First Title value, for Searching Fleming, William Brian (1927 - 2016)

2024-05-05T10:09:16Z

by Bill Fleming
Publication Date 2016-08-18
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Occupation General surgeon Head and neck surgeon
Details Brian Fleming was a head and neck surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH). He was born in Zeehan, Tasmania, on 13 February 1927, and was educated in Burnie, before moving to Melbourne to complete his secondary education at Scotch College, graduating in 1943. He was able to make the wartime quota for medicine, and as medical students were exempt from call-up, began his medical training at the University of Melbourne medical school in February 1944. Brian's clinical training was undertaken at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and he graduated MB BS in November 1949. He became an intern at the RMH in 1950 and a senior house surgeon the following year. He became a resident surgical officer in 1952 and married Margaret in July of the same year. In December 1953 Brian attained his fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and combined his surgical duties with research as the Randal and Louisa Alcock scholar in pathology. In May 1954 he received his MS by examination, and in June was appointed to his first job as a trained surgeon. From June to December 1954, Brian served in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps as a major with the British Commonwealth Forces, Korea, based at the British Commonwealth General Hospital in Kure, Japan. He was discharged to the Army Reserve as a consultant surgeon for the Southern Command, a post he held until 1972. He was earmarked for a stint with the UN Force in Laos, prior to the Vietnam War, but fortunately Australian forces were not required. Because of his young family, he was not needed to serve in Vietnam. After further study in the UK and USA, Brian attained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in May 1955. From December 1955 he was appointed to the staff of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and in the following year to the staff of the Footscray and District Hospital. In 1968 he received his fellowship of the American College of Surgeons, and was appointed head of his own unit. As the years progressed he became recognised as a gifted specialist head and neck surgeon, serving both the Peter MacCallum and Royal Melbourne hospitals in the field of cancer surgery. The Royal Melbourne Hospital recognised Brian Fleming's exceptional leadership skills when he was appointed as chairman of the division of surgery and head of the medical advisory committee in 1975, two posts he held until 1983. He was appointed head of the head and neck service in 1980, and held this appointment until his retirement. He was appointed to the board of management in 1983, and became the junior vice president of the hospital in 1986. He was the acting treasurer in 1989 and retired from the staff of the RMH, after 36 years service, in 1991. Besides his commitments to the RMH, Brian was deeply involved in cancer research and prevention outside the hospital. In the early 1970's cancer clinicians around Australia knew more about overseas practice than about what contemporaries were doing within a few hundred kilometres. Noel Newton and Leicester Atkinson in Sydney sought a like mind in Melbourne and were rewarded when Brian Fleming agreed to collaborate. He helped found the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia, becoming its first president from 1974 to 1976. Brian was invited to assist the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria, and as their delegate became vice president (from 1980 to 1983) and then president of the Australian Cancer Society from 1983 to 1986. He also served the Society in other ways, chairing its medical and scientific committee, editing *The cancer-related health check-up: a guide to medical practitioners* (The Australian Cancer Society, 1991), advising on national cancer prevention policy, chairing a national consensus conference on cervical cancer screening and serving as a member of the National Cancer Advisory Committee. He was appointed as surgeon to the health department of Victoria's Consultative Council on Anaesthetic Morbidity and Mortality in 1991. Brian was presented with the Australian Cancer Society gold medal in November 1992. On this occasion, the president, Heather Wain, in presenting the medal said: 'In his voluntary service to COSA, the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria and the Australian Cancer Society Brian added a further dimension to the care and compassion he gave to his patients. Through his selfless commitment he has aided the advancement of cancer care for the whole Australian community and upheld the noble ideals of the medical profession. His example continues through his family with a wife a former nurse, one daughter a nurse, one a science graduate, two sons who are doctors, and Melissa who decided to follow her father's artistic talent into architecture. He deservedly joins a list of distinguished Australian cancer workers which includes a number of Victorians: Sir William Kilpatrick, Don Metcalf, John Colebatch and Ken Cox; his addition to the list adds to its lustre.' Brian retired from active surgical practice and direct patient care in 1991, but continued in medico-legal practice in Melbourne and Mildura for many years. With the introduction of workcover insurance by the Kennett government in Victoria in December 1992, Brian was appointed as a sessional conciliator, one of the few medically trained, and the only surgeon. He continued in this role to March 1996. In May 1997 Brian was presented with the inaugural head and neck surgery medal by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons' section of head and neck surgery. Despite his advancing age, the Victorian government acknowledged Brian's exceptional skills as a wise and fair conciliator, appointing him to medical panels. He was regularly asked to keep going and was reappointed on into his seventies, before finally retiring from medico-legal practice on the occasion of his 79th birthday in February 2006. In his leisure time Brian played golf and indulged in oil painting. He began exhibiting with the Australian Medical Association Arts Group in 1962, three years after its inception. One of his paintings, 'Banksia', was bought by Sir Daryl Lindsay, chairman of the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board for the Australian Government Collection, and two paintings were purchased by the politician Sir John McEwen. Brian was awarded the membership of the Order of Australia on 11 June 2001 for service to medicine, particularly oncology treatment as a head and neck surgeon, and as a medical administrator. Brian Fleming died after a long illness on 5 July 2016. He was 89. He was survived by his wife Margaret, his five children, Helen, Judy, Bill, Rick and Melissa, and by his seven grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009235
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First Title value, for Searching Chawishly, Soran Akram Agha (1951- 2020)

2024-05-05T10:09:16Z

by Esma J Dogramaci
Publication Date 2020-10-19 2020-12-07 2021-02-15
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Occupation ENT surgeon Head and neck surgeon Otolaryngologist
Details Soran Chawishly was an associate specialist surgeon in otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at University College Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital in London. He was born on 4 January 1951 in Erbil, Iraq to Akram and Rasmieh Chawishly, their second son and one of six children. After completing his primary and secondary education in Erbil, he travelled to Baghdad, where he studied medicine at the Baghdad Medical College, University of Baghdad, graduating with a MB ChB in 1973. After obtaining his primary degree, Soran worked and trained in several Baghdad hospitals in the specialties of general surgery, orthopaedics, general internal medicine, paediatrics, accident and emergency medicine and otolaryngology, after which he decided to pursue specialisation in the latter. This decision led him to train at the Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital in Baghdad. After qualification, he worked as a specialist otolaryngologist in Ramadi, 110km west of Baghdad, then immigrated to the UK in 1980 to further develop his knowledge and skills in his specialist field. In the UK, Soran gained postgraduate clinical experience in several hospitals across London and Newcastle, gaining the DLO in 1986. He worked for many years at the Royal Free Hospital and, during this time, trained many junior doctors, several of whom are now consultants throughout the UK. Until his terminal diagnosis, he was working as an associate specialist in otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at University College Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital in London. Aside from the clinical training of junior doctors, participating within hospital management and administration, and giving lectures to general medical practitioners, he was an advocate for respect, recognition and fair reward in the workplace, particularly for staff associate specialist (SAS) surgeons. He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s SAS and locum consultants’ committee and was the SAS representative at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s surgical specialty board for ENT. He was a strong supporter of initiatives targeting workplace bullying, harassment and undermining, particularly against SAS surgeons. He had a wealth of knowledge regarding contracts, salaries and pensions, which he freely shared with his colleagues and friends. Soran’s philanthropic contributions included regular self-funded trips to Erbil, Iraq, where he would work with various non-governmental organisations to teach and mentor undergraduate and postgraduate medical students. He was a valued colleague and esteemed friend to many in the UK and Iraq, and over several years enthusiastically organised and coordinated popular reunions of his graduating year from his alma mater in diverse locations in Turkey and Spain, in addition to London. Soran had intended to retire in 2021 and was happily looking forward to enjoying spending more time outdoors, with gardening, playing golf and country walks high on his list of activities. He had planned to travel the world on a cruise as well as further pursue his lifetime passion of model cars. Soran was also planning reunions, with the one for 2020 intended to be especially memorable for the fact that it was due to take place in his ancestral homeland, Erbil, Iraq, but this was abandoned due to his sudden and short illness. He died on 22 July 2020 at the age of 69 and is sorely missed by his near and extended family and relatives, friends, work colleagues, patients and all who knew him. Soran was survived by his wife, two sons and two granddaughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Sir Patrick William Eisdell (1918 - 2015)

2024-05-05T10:09:16Z

by Ron Goodey
Publication Date 2015-12-09
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Occupation ENT surgeon Head and neck surgeon Otolaryngologist
Details Patrick Moore was born in Bristol on 17 March 1918. His father Arthur Eisdell Moore ("Eisdell"), who was in England on a post-War surgical appointment at that time, met his mother, Alice, a nurse from Yorkshire, in 1915 when serving as a field surgeon with the RAMC on the Western Front. Patrick was the first child of three; two sons and a daughter, and although christened William Ernest Moore, he had been nicknamed "Pat" while still in uteroin anticipation he (or she) would be born on St Patrick's Day. The name stuck when that prediction proved correct. It was not until he reached the age of 21 that he formalised his adopted name by deed poll and changed Ernest to Eisdell. After the war Eisdell returned to New Zealand with his new family and set up consulting rooms as a general surgeon in Symonds Street. This was where Pat's lifelong interest in and love for horses was first kindled. He was fascinated by the variety of draught horses operated by the local merchants who lived in the neighbourhood. It was also a time when the first stirrings of artistic talent took form as he drew and sketched on any blank or receptive surface, often to the chagrin of his parents. Pat commenced his secondary education at Auckland Grammar as an 11-year old. While his love of literature and the classics led him to top the country in English in his matriculation year, he struggled with mathematics. After a year at Auckland University College, Pat continued his studies at Otago University, where for his first four years in Dunedin Pat was a resident at Selwyn College, assuming the presidency in the last of these years. As a medical student he played on the wing of the university senior rugby team. He supplemented his meagre student allowance by selling his sketches, cartoons, caricatures, short stories and poems to various publications, including Punch. At student parties his musical talents as a pianist were in great demand, although he did occasionally lament his popularity on the keys by reason of the restrictions it necessarily imposed on his ability to socialise more widely. After leaving Selwyn College, Pat moved to a boarding house in Cargill Street where he met fellow resident Beth Beedie, a final year physiotherapy student from a medical family in Dannevirke. After qualifying she was posted to Hawke's Bay and Pat moved to Auckland for his final year of medical studies. Their courtship flourished, albeit remotely. Pat graduated in 1943 and he and Beth married, commencing life together in a small flat near Auckland Hospital, where Pat worked as a house surgeon to obtain full registration and thus eligibility to re-enlist in the army. As a medical student he had been commissioned in the Otago University Medical Corps and in his final year worked as a resident army medical officer in the Auckland region. After obtaining full registration he wasted no time in enlisting with the 2nd NZEF and was posted overseas, leaving Beth and their infant son, Anthony. Once overseas he single-mindedly set about joining the 28th (Maori) Battalion with whom he served throughout the Italian campaign rising to the rank of Captain. Tall, freckled and red-haired he was the only Pakeha in the Battalion. Culturally immersed, he became fluent in Te Reo and Tikanga Maori making lifelong friendships with his comrades and developing a sophisticated understanding, even at that early time, of how a bi-cultural New Zealand should look. He actively applied those principles of bi-culturalism throughout the rest of his life. During the Battle of Faenza he was badly wounded. His right arm was saved from amputation, at considerable risk to his life, only because the surgeon was aware of Pat's surgical ambitions. On leaving the Battalion at the cessation of hostilities, he was farewelled by the Commanding Officer with the words: "You were not the most academic takuta (doctor) we had. You may not necessarily have been the most brave, but you were, definitely, the most Maori." He was subsequently made Patron and a life member of the 28th Battalion, a recognition which meant the world to him. In 1946 he returned to Auckland Hospital. A three month rotation in eye and ENT surgery kindled an interest which, in 1947, led him to become an eye and ENT registrar. During this year he was greatly influenced by the country's foremost ENT consultant James Hardie Neil and Pat decided on a career in ENT. In 1948 after a year working as an anatomy demonstrator in Dunedin, Pat with Beth and by this time two sons, sailed to London where he spent two years working and demonstrating at the Middlesex, training at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in Grey's Inn and studying at the College of Surgeons. He passed his primary and, at his first attempt, his English fellowship examination and subsequently the DLO. He then obtained a very busy ENT registrar post in Northampton for two years under ex-patriot Australian Charles Gledhill. In 1952 Pat and the family returned to Auckland where he set up rooms as an ENT consultant in Symonds Street and the family was expanded by the addition of two more sons. Pat was appointed junior ENT surgeon at the recently opened department at Greenlane Hospital. He rapidly rose to head of department. Under his leadership and innovation, the department grew quickly. Facilities expanded, as did the number of staff, to include a team of GPs and specialists in related disciplines including allergy, oral surgery and voice therapy. He pioneered the use of micro surgery in New Zealand, encouraged the innovative use of homografts and was the first in the world to transplant appropriately prepared and sterilised tympanic membranes, initially in animals and later in humans. Building on this research he established the Deafness Research Foundation in 1962, an organisation specifically created to assist clinicians undertaking research into hearing and deafness-related problems. His continuing engagement with Maori led him to make regular voluntary visits between 1965 and 1977 to the East Coast of the North Island where ear disease and resulting hearing loss was endemic, particularly amongst children. Through his energies he sourced sophisticated surgical equipment and instructed local doctors and nurses in its use. These efforts were rewarded by a remarkable reduction in the incidence of ear disease on the East Coast. Encouraged by these results and conscious of the common and understandable reluctance on the part of many parents to take their children to hospital, Pat's natural flair for innovation led him to raise funds for the development of mobile ear clinics which took clinical services into the community under the banner of the Deafness Research Foundation. Following success from this initiative in Northland it was adopted in Auckland and then, through the generosity of the Variety Club, a fleet of mobile ear clinics allowed similar services to be extended to many other regions. Pat also encouraged research into the pharmacological treatment of tinnitus, the inclusion of ear and hearing problems in the Dunedin multi-disciplinary study and he investigated the effects of hearing loss on prison inmates. He led the first ENT teaching programme in the Auckland Medical School and supported the establishment of a dedicated tertiary degree course for the training of audiologists. As President of the then Otolaryngological Society of New Zealand, Pat organised the first joint conference with the Australian society with in excess of 100 attendees from either side of the Tasman. This inaugural meeting was New Zealand's first ENT international conference. By the mid-1970s Pat appreciated that hearing research was moving its focus from the external and middle ear to the inner ear. At the same time he realised the activities of the Deafness Research Foundation required a higher and more sustained level of scientific input and engaged a post-graduate scientist, Peter Thorne, to build a research team. Pat also monitored the evolution of cochlear implants and once a multi-channel device had been perfected, persuaded benefactors to support the introduction of a cochlear implant programme in New Zealand; initially for adults and later for children. He was quick to acknowledge the need for specialist auditory verbal training for implanted children and persuaded philanthropists and friends to support the establishment of the now highly successful Hearing House. Pat's interests were not simply limited to deafness and hearing. He served on the Council of Auckland University, helped establish Riding for the Disabled and the Coeliac Society. He was Master of the Pakuranga Hunt for nine years and President and Emeritus Member of the New Zealand Hunts Association. His mastery of prose, verse and sketching has left an enduring literacy and pictorial record in the annals of the many institutions with which he has been involved. Perhaps the best known is his brilliant water colour caricature; a montage of the 1940 professors of the Otago Medical School. This remarkable drawing, which has been reproduced in numerous publications, now hangs outside the Dean's office. In 2004 his autobiography was published. The title, "So Old So Quick", was coined from a quote by Ogden Nash and the book's flowing literacy style, humour and self deprecation earned it universally positive reviews. Pat's vision, enthusiasm and selfless contribution to medicine and the wider community was recognised by the Queen in the 1982 Royal Honours with the award of on OBE and in 1992 he was Knighted for his services to medicine and the community. Auckland Grammar honoured him in 2005 with an Augusta Fellowship as a distinguished old boy. In 2007 Selwyn College elected him an Honorary Fellow. Pat's funeral in a packed St Mary's-in-Trinity, was a moving and evocative tribute to an extraordinary New Zealander. His plain coffin, draped in a New Zealand flag, was adorned by a magnificent korowai (feathered clock) woven by the widows of the Battalion in its colours of red, black and white. To the haunting strains of a karanga (call of welcome) he was carried in by representatives of the Battalion, various iwi and representatives of longstanding friends. At the end of the service a rousing haka performed by the Auckland Grammar kapa haka group paid a final farewell. Sir Patrick is survived by his beloved wife Beth, their four sons, Anthony (a pathologist practising in Australia), Tim (a radiologist practising in North America), Simon (a High Court Judge), Chris (a leading commercial property lawyer) and by 12 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009010
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format Obituary
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