First Title value, for Searching Kendall, Brian Ernest (1929 - 2015)

2024-05-07T06:54:19Z

by Garry Kendall
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2016-07-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379644379644
Occupation Neuroradiologist Radiologist
Details Brian Kendall was director of the Lysholm department of radiology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London. He was born in Bolton, Lancashire, the son of Gilbert Kendall, a tanner, and Elsie Kendall née Holt. Aged seven, following the death of his mother, his family moved to Limerick in Ireland. He went to boarding school at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, where he earned himself a scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin. There he excelled both academically and on the playing fields, as a middle distance runner, rugby player and competitive swimmer. After he qualified, he moved to London in early 1954 to continue his training. He had originally intended to pursue a career in paediatrics, but unfortunately he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis. He was advised that he would not be allowed to have direct patient contact for two years. So, with a young family to support and not wishing to put his career on hold, he transferred his training to radiology. In 1962 he obtained his first consultant radiologist post at the London Chest Hospital (a post he held until 1968). In 1964, he was appointed to the Middlesex Hospital staff, where he started to specialise in neuroradiology. Soon after this appointment, he went to Oslo in Norway for three months to get further training in this area. In 1967 he was appointed as a consultant at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Maida Vale. He continued there until, in 1974, he obtained a place in the Lysholm department of radiology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square. In 1975 he obtained a further post at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. He continued these posts until his 'retirement' in 1994, aged 65. Post-retirement he not only returned to the Middlesex Hospital, but also took a post at the Royal Free Hospital, where he continued training radiologists and doing interventional neuroradiology until 2009, when, at the age of 79, he finally stopped clinical work. Brian Kendall was fortunate to enter the field of radiology at a time when technological advances were set to transform the specialty. These opportunities he exploited to the best of his ability. He was dedicated to all areas of his work, both clinical and academic. He researched extensively in the fields of angiography, CT scanning and MRI, and was a pioneer in interventional neuroradiology. He was recognised as a world-leading diagnostic, paediatric, neonatal and interventional neuroradiologist. In 1977 he was awarded the Barclay prize by the British Institute of Radiology. In 1979 and 1981, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1988, he received the Barclay medal for original contributions in neuroradiology, also from the British Institute of Radiology. In 1984 he became director of the Lysholm department of radiology and, in conjunction with two other colleagues, helped make the department one of the most well-known throughout Europe in the 1980s and 1990s. He had a passion and enthusiasm for his work that he never lost up to the day he died. He loved teaching and trained a considerable number of neuroradiologists, many of whom attained leading positions in the field later on. Those he worked with have variously described him as a wonderful colleague with a quiet but commanding presence, a man of incredible intellect, a brilliant medical expert, a kind and courteous man with a very British sense of humour, an excellent teacher and a great inspiration. After retirement at age 65, in addition to his honorary appointments, he also started to develop his medico-legal practice. Here he continued to use his expertise and energy as an expert witness in medico-legal cases. His views were completely respected by medical and legal practitioners on both sides; he was described as fair, thoughtful, kind and, above all else, seemingly always right. He continued his medico-legal work until his death. Brian Kendall was a loving husband and father. In 1954 he married Sylvia Leslie Eugenie née Tyler, a fellow doctor, whom he had met whilst at Trinity College, Dublin. Sadly, his wife unexpectedly and prematurely passed away in 1996, age 67. He was survived by his son and three daughters, nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Bull, James William Douglas (1911 - 1987)

2024-05-07T06:54:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007100-E007199
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379359379359
Occupation Neuroradiologist Radiologist
Details James William Douglas Bull, the son of a general practitioner in Buckinghamshire, was educated at Repton and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before securing an entrance scholarship to St George's Hospital Medical School and graduating there in 1936. One of his uncles was a radiologist and Bull made an early decision to specialize in radiology. In 1938 he was awarded a Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship to study newer techniques for the more precise location of brain tumours under Erik Lysholm in Stockholm. This attachment was interrupted by the outbreak of the second world war when he joined the RAMC and was posted to Malaya as a specialist radiologist with the rank of Major. For some four years after the fall of Singapore he was a Japanese prisoner of war, a period of which he later rarely spoke but which he certainly never forgot. After demobilisation he returned to Stockholm to complete his Rockefeller Fellowship. Shortly after returning to England he was appointed to the consultant staff of St George's and to the National Hospital, Queen Square, and Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases. At Queen Square he developed an outstanding department of neuroradiology, dedicated to his friend and teacher, Erik Lysholm. Thereafter, with characteristic enthusiasm and application, he remained at the forefront of development in his specialty, practising and preaching the necessity for punctuality, accuracy and precision in every aspect of his work. A handsome man, with a fine presence and a splendid voice, he was a superb lecturer and equally effective in his informal teaching. For all these reasons he became a great ambassador for Britain, ever keen to extol and support British achievements. He immediately recognised the great potential of computed tomography and magnetic resonance and spared no effort in trying to persuade British manufacturers of the vital commercial importance of these discoveries. Alas, the economic state of the United Kingdom at that time, and of British industry, deprived us of the rich fruits of many further developments in this field. Whatever may have been the failures of industry James Bull's personal influence on the training of neuroradiologists was immense; indeed, most British and many Commonwealth specialists in this field were taught by him and given loyal support subsequently. He was notably generous to his trainees and colleagues, giving strong back-up to every promising idea and full credit to its authors. James Bull's personality and mastery of his specialty inevitably led to wide honour and recognition. When Dean of the Faculty of Radiologists he served on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and was later President of the newly founded Royal College of Radiologists. He was President of both the Radiological and Neurological Sections of the Royal Society of Medicine; President of the British Institute of Radiology, as well as founder President of the British and European Societies of Neuroradiology. He also served on the Council of the Royal College of Physicians of London and was consultant neuroradiologist to the Royal Navy. His services to his specialty were, though many thought inadequately, recognised by the award of the CBE in 1977. Bull published a number of papers on contrast myelography before his writings on computed tomography and was a contributor to Feiling's *Modern trends in neurology*. His many outside interests included golf and keeping rainfall and temperature records for the Henley-on-Thames area where he lived for many years. He also wrote a history of the building of the London to Birmingham railway. His wife Edith predeceased him in 1978 and he was survived by his son and daughter when he died on 5 June 1987.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007176
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