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First Title value, for Searching Branfoot, Antony Carre (1932 - 2022)

2024-05-05T22:45:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-01-11
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Occupation Histopathologist
Details Antony Branfoot was a histopathologist at Westminster Medical School, London. 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 Friedmann, Imrich (1907 - 2002)

2024-05-05T22:45:28Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2015-10-29 2016-05-12
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Occupation ENT pathologist Histopathologist Pathologist
Details Born in Czechoslovakia in 1907, Imrich Friedmann became a pathologist in chief in Zlin in 1936. Three years later, when Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Nazis, he escaped to England and obtained English qualifications in 1942. A year later, he was called up for military service in the Free Czech Army. He returned to Czechoslovakia at the end of the war, but was forced to flee again when it was invaded by the Communists. He was appointed to the Institute of Laryngology and Otology in 1949, where he became acknowledged as the founding father of ear, nose and throat pathology and was made professor of pathology at the Institute in 1963. He retired from this chair in 1972 and was appointed visiting histopathologist at Northwick Park Hospital. A lover of music, he played the violin in the Three Hospitals Orchestra, under the direction of Norman Del Mar and later the Hospitals Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis. He married Joan Drew in 1943. He died on 11 July 2002. See below for an amended version of the published obituary: Imrich Friedmann was the founding father of modern ear, nose and throat pathology. Having qualified MD in Prague in 1931, he became a specialist in pathology in Bratislava, and at the onset of the Second World War was pathologist-in-chief at Zlin. His escape from Czechoslovakia via Holland was aided by an American Quaker mission, which helped him to obtain a British visa. He arrived in London on 30 April 1939 and briefly worked at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and in the department of pathology at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School. In January 1940, he was fortunate to be selected from among a number of doctors from Czechoslovakia for admission to University College Medical School, where he qualified MRCS LRCP in 1942. He was then appointed as a demonstrator and Turner research fellow at the department of pathology, Hammersmith Hospital. In 1943 he met and married Joan Drew, but it was not long before he was called up by the Free Czech Army medical mission as a pathologist. He was flown by the RAF to Tehran, transported by the Red Army to Baku and then by train to Košice, where he took over the pathology department of the state hospital. His task was to reconstruct and update the department. He was joined by Joan at the end of the Second World War, but in 1948 they were obliged by the Communist takeover to return to the UK. An appointment as assistant pathologist to the newly formed Institute of Laryngology and Otology, London, was the start of his international career. He became reader and director of the pathology department in 1952, and in 1963 was promoted to professor of pathology at the University of London. He contributed the chapter on ENT pathology in three editions of *Systemic pathology*(London, Longmans, 1966; Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 1978; Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 1986). *Pathology of the ear* (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific), perhaps his most famous book, was published in 1974. His particular interest was in the field of electron microscopy of the inner ear. Friedmann was a member of the Collegium (CORLAS), the international group of academic otorhinolaryngologists, and lectured all over the world on the pathology of deafness and granulomas in the head and neck. Freidmann received many awards, including Semon lectureship of the University of London (1970), the McBride lectureship of the University of Edinburgh (1980), and the gold medal of the Slovakian Academy of Arts and Sciences. His election to the fellowship of our College in 1979 gave him great pleasure. On his retirement in 1972, he became emeritus professor of pathology and at the same time a visiting histopathologist to Northwick Park and Mount Vernon hospitals, where he continued to work one day a week until he reached his early 90s. Imrich Friedmann played the violin in two medical orchestras - the Three Hospitals Orchestra, under the direction of Norman Del Mar, and subsequently the Hospitals Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Sir Colin Davis. When he died on 11 July 2002 at the age of 95 he was survived by his wife, Joan.
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First Title value, for Searching Woolf, Neville (1930 - 2019)

2024-05-05T22:45:28Z

by David Katz
Publication Date 2019-09-16 2019-11-05
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009600-E009699
Occupation Histopathologist
Details Neville Woolf was a respected pathologist, a dedicated educator and mentor, and made important research contributions to our understanding of the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Over almost 50 years he played a significant role in three London institutions – St George’s Hospital Medical School, the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and University College London. He was born on 17 May 1930 in Cape Town, South Africa and studied medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT), where he qualified in 1951. His original intention was to spend a short period in pathology before embarking on a surgical career, but several factors intervened (although much later he became an honorary FRCS). Firstly, his interest was aroused in the accurate observation and reporting of pathological findings, and in how this approach could lead on to asking novel questions about underlying disease mechanisms. Secondly, the charismatic reader in the pathology department, Golda Selzer, became a mentor and friend, who encouraged him by her example of combining experimentation with clinical practice, and with engagement with students in an empathic way. An important element from his South African period was a very simple direct observation: there was as much atherosclerosis amongst the white South African population as there was in Europe and the USA, but there was none in the African population. He never did an autopsy at UCT on an African with coronary heart disease. During the late 1950's the established pattern of postgraduate training in the UK for South African doctors shifted significantly: young doctors continued to arrive in the UK, but were unwilling to return and work under the increasingly oppressive Apartheid regime. Like many others, Neville decided to stay in the UK. Inspired by his South African experience, his PhD research focused on atherogenesis. In 1974, Neville took up the chair at the Middlesex. He had a knack of identifying with the institutions where he worked, and for him this appointment was a ‘perfect fit’. He set about not only the physical refurbishment of the department, but also the ethos with respect to service, research and teaching. No task was too humble for him. He abolished the ‘ash cash’ system (remuneration for signing cremation forms) and integrated the coroner cases into the department, using the proceeds to fund conference attendance by colleagues and juniors. He also established an intercalated pathology BSc. He integrated himself into the life of the school parallel to the way he championed the integration of pathology teaching with clinical teaching. At the same time, he continued to explore the role of endothelium and aspects of its interaction with lipoproteins, prostaglandins and nicotine. The merger of the Middlesex Hospital and University College London medical schools was not an easy time for those involved. Neville was firm but courteous during the process, and earned the respect of his colleagues. His final role was as vice dean and faculty tutor of the unified organisation. He built up a team of administrative colleagues and he continued to work in that capacity until he was 75. He was particularly proud, too, of the MB PhD programme which he nurtured, believing that it embodied the combination of clinical and research excellence to which he was committed. Of all the aspects of his career, Neville’s chief interest was always his students. He loved them and took pride in all their academic achievements. He loved teaching more than any other facet of his work. He tried to emphasise the overwhelming importance of the word ‘school’ in medical school. He defended student interests wherever he could. At an individual level, he knew them by name, and they knew that he was a friend who they could approach about problems. Many dined at his home, and had wonderful memories not only of what he had taught them but also of how he had done so. Furthermore, even after retirement, engagement with education came naturally: in his late eighties, he was teaching French at the University of the Third Age. Neville’s relationship with Lydia (née Mandelbrote) was the defining one of his life: they had met as six-year-olds in primary school, married 20 years later, and the marriage lasted 60 years. She was a perfect companion, and the heart of their home and family. They adored their daughter Vicky, their son Adam, their grandchildren and their grand dogs, making every effort to support them at all times and in every way. Neville had a prodigious memory for what he had read, for details of Royal Opera House productions, and for London orchestral concerts, and Lydia shared not only his love of books and music, but also of cooking. It was after her death that his physical decline took hold. He died on 26 July 2019 at the age of 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Way, Stanley Albert (1913 - 1988)

2024-05-05T22:45:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379891379891
Occupation Gynaecologist Histopathologist
Details Stanley Way was born in Portsmouth on 16 January 1913, the son of a naval officer and after early education entered the Middlesex Hospital for his clinical studies, qualifying in 1936. During his early years he was greatly influenced by the example of Victor Bonney and acquired a lifelong interest in the early diagnosis and radical treatment of gynaecological cancer. In 1938, shortly after his marriage to Ruth Noble, he moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to a junior post in the Royal Victoria Infirmary and within two years had passed the MRCOG examination. During the war years medical reasons prevented him from serving in the Royal Navy but he continued to shoulder heavy clinical responsibilities as registrar at the Royal Infirmary and Princess Mary Maternity Hospital. At the end of the war he moved briefly to Shotley Bridge General Hospital before being appointed consultant in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, in 1947. In 1948 he visited Dr George N Papanicolaou's laboratory in the United States in order to learn the basic techniques of cervical cytology, which he subsequently introduced into his own unit at Gateshead. He became a competent and meticulous histopathologist, often examining fifty or more sections before expressing an opinion. He converted a vacant nurses' home in the hospital into a thirty bed gynaecological ward using money raised by charitable subscriptions and pioneered a radical approach to cervical and vulval carcinoma. His study of the lymphatic drainage of the vulva pointed to the need for extensive vulvectomy and bilateral inguinal lymph node excision. In the management of cervical carcinoma in situ he routinely removed the upper third of the vagina in continuity with the uterus, stressing that if sufficient sections of the vagina were examined, tumour cells would be found in over twenty per cent. He introduced an oncology service, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, and this service subsequently became a regional centre for the investigation and management of gynaecological malignancies. He was awarded many honours including a Hunterian Professorship delivered on 13 February 1948 on the anatomy of the lymphatic drainage of the vulva and its influence on the radical operation for carcinoma, the Blair Bell Lectureship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1948 and the Bernhard Baron Travelling Research Scholarship. He was Victor Bonney Prizeman in 1964 to 1966, elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1953 and of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1974. He was also elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Association of Gynaecology and Obstetrics and the International Association of Cytology. Like so many great physicians and surgeons he was a serious critic of his colleagues and their work when it failed to meet his standards. This was always in a positive and constructive way and never intended to cause offence. As well as contributing to gynaecology, he introduced a breast screening clinic for examination and mammography, developing the first breast cancer detection programme in the United Kingdom many years before the need for such services were recognised. He retired from hospital practice in 1978. His outside interests were cricket and music and he was an accomplished organ player. He died after a long illness on 23 July 1988, aged 75, and is survived by his wife, his son Bernard who is a consultant surgeon and his daughter Elizabeth.
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