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

2024-05-18T01:34:23Z

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
Resource Identifier RCS: E010574
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First Title value, for Searching Rhys Evans, Peter Howell (1948 - 2022)

2024-05-18T01:34:23Z

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 Shepperd, Harold Walter Henry (1924 - 2013)

2024-05-18T01:34:23Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005830
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Henry Jagoe (1922 - 2007)

2024-05-18T01:34:23Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000552
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First Title value, for Searching Freeman, Richard Peter (1925 - 2015)

2024-05-18T01:34:23Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008041
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First Title value, for Searching Chawishly, Soran Akram Agha (1951- 2020)

2024-05-18T01:34:23Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009810
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Sir Patrick William Eisdell (1918 - 2015)

2024-05-18T01:34:23Z

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.
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