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First Title value, for Searching Moffat, David Andrew (1947- 2020)

2024-05-06T17:13:19Z

by Richard Ramsden
Publication Date 2020-04-14 2020-08-26
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Occupation Otologist Neuro-otologist Skull base surgeon
Details David Moffat was a consultant neuro-otologist/skull base surgeon of international acclaim. He ran an outstanding department at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge from 1981 until he retired in 2012. He was born on 27 June 1947 in Cardiff, Wales of Celtic stock; his father, Graham Moffat, was Scottish and his mother, Myra Moffat née Paul, was Welsh. This dual allegiance caused him considerable anguish during the Six Nations Championship, but the eventual purchase of a Moffat tartan kilt and full regalia seemed to indicate resolution of his crisis of national identity. After the war his parents ran a sweet shop in Glasgow and moved south when David was seven. Graham became a business manager with Nestlé and Myra became secretary to the headmaster of Harrow School. David went to St Nicholas Grammar in Northwood and by the age of 12 had decided he wanted to be a doctor. He studied medicine at the London Hospital, picking up a first-class BSc degree in biochemistry before qualifying with his MB BS. His initial inclination was to specialise in general surgery, but his interest changed to otolaryngology under the influence of Andrew Morrison, who in the 1970's was the leading otologist in the country and who, with his neurosurgical colleague Tom King, established the concept of team working in the management of acoustic neuroma. He qualified FRCS (otolaryngology) in 1975. David and his two fellow trainees in the ENT department at the London, Bill Gibson and Richard Ramsden, became absorbed in inner ear physiology and pathology, and produced a constant stream of research papers, mostly on cochlear electrophysiology. David’s lifelong interest in Ménière’s disease stemmed from that time, and during his career he contributed important publications on the subject. He was appointed to Addenbrooke’s and quickly established a neuro-otology team approach following the London Hospital model. Together with his neurosurgical colleagues David Hardy and Robert Macfarlane, he built up one of the most important acoustic neuroma series in the world and published and lectured extensively on the subject, and on other skull base conditions. His radical approach to the deadly carcinoma of the ear produced survival figures without equal. He also studied the pathogenesis of cholesteatoma and its management, and contributed to the literature in this field. He was a popular international guest speaker and was meticulous in the presentation of his extensive material. Before the days of PowerPoint, he could often be seen and heard clanking through airports laden down with carousels of slides. He had a particular love of America, having spent six months as a trainee with Mansfield Smith in Stanford. He was a frequent visitor to the States and one of his proudest moments was the award of the House-Hitselberger lifetime achievement award in recognition of his contribution to acoustic neuroma and skull base surgery. He enjoyed teaching and was good at it. Of the many courses he regularly contributed to, the Nijmegen ear surgery course, was the one he enjoyed most for the combination of science, surgery, camaraderie and good humoured banter. Nijmegen’s Radboud University awarded him a PhD for his thesis on lateral skull base surgery. His work with the International Federation of Otorhinolaryngological Societies was recognised with their gold award. In the UK, he received every honour and every medal the specialty can award. He served the specialty assiduously; at the Royal College of Surgeons, where he was a Hunterian Professor, for the specialty advisory committee and ENTUK, as master of the British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology, for the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Glasgow, where he was an examiner, and the Royal Society of Medicine, where he was president of the section of otology and an honorary life member, and for numerous other local and national committees. By all accounts he was a shy boy lacking in confidence. He soon changed. He became an engaging, outgoing adult, with a sense of humour that was spontaneous, never unkind and often directed at what he perceived to be own shortcomings, of which the most often aired was his obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This was most frequently manifest in the time he devoted to his golf and his skiing. He was a member of many golf clubs – his handicap came down to five – but like all OCD sufferers he was never happy. His skiing was a mid-life passion and his initial fear was kept at bay by cocktails of gluhwein and valium surreptitiously slipped into his morning coffee by his devoted wife Jane. The base for his alpine activities was his chalet in Méribel. The other targets of his obsession were his fast cars, of which his Ferrari – his ‘Italian Mistress’ – was his favourite, and fine wine, which he loved to share with his many friends. He married Jane Warwick in 1973, and she was the centre of his life. Their three children, Simon, Claire and Mark, produced seven grandchildren and he adored them all, a feeling that was reciprocated. David died on 18 March 2020 at the age of 72. He had just recovered from a year’s treatment for carcinoma of the prostate and had been given the all-clear, when he was diagnosed with a second primary, adenocarcinoma of the lung with metastatic spread.
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First Title value, for Searching Seed, George Sutcliffe (1905 - 1958)

2024-05-06T17:13:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-04
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Occupation Otologist
Details Born on 27 April 1905 he was educated in Halifax and entered the medical school in Leeds in 1922 qualifying there in 1927. He served as a resident at the Birmingham and Midland Ear Nose and Throat Hospital and as resident aural officer at the General Infirmary, Leeds for six years, a record period. Postgraduate study in Edinburgh and Vienna followed, and in 1936 he was admitted to the Fellowship after which he was appointed consulting surgeon to the General Infirmary and to St James's Hospital in Leeds. In 1938 he was commissioned in the RAMC(T) and appointed otologist to the 18th General Hospital with which he went to France in 1939, being evacuated from Boulogne in 1940. He afterwards served in India from 1940 to 1945 as consulting aural surgeon with the rank of Brigadier. Returning to Leeds after the war, he founded in 1947 the North of England Otolaryngological Society in the capacity of its first secretary and treasurer, later becoming its President in 1952. In 1958 he was vice-president of the section of otology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a very popular lecturer and teacher and the students elected him president of their medical society in 1957. At meetings, if he spoke, it was always to the point and as a writer he contributed to Scott Brown's *Diseases of the Ear*. A great traveller, he enjoyed visiting other clinics; and he improved the scope of his department in Leeds by increasing the staff to three consultants. The last five years of his life were clouded by ill health and several major operations, but he became a keen fisherman and this afforded him great enjoyment. He died on 13 October 1958 aged 53 survived by his wife and three daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Collier, Dorothy Josephine (1894 - 1972)

2024-05-06T17:13:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-30
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Occupation Otologist
Details Born on 8 March 1894, the daughter of John and Agnes Collier, Josephine Collier was educated at the Convent of Notre Dame, Southport, the University of Oxford, and University College Hospital, where she qualified in 1922. She was house surgeon at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, and later successively house surgeon, registrar and first assistant in the Ear, Nose and Throat department at University College Hospital and registrar at the Central London Throat and Ear Hospital. She became FRCS in 1932. She was consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital and to the South London Hospital for Women and an associate lecturer at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology. During the second world war she served in North Africa and Italy as specialist otologist with the rank of Major in the RAMC. She was a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1939, President of the Section of Otology of the Royal Society of Medicine, and member of council of the Medical Women's Federation. She was joint author with Sir Douglas MacLaggan of *Diseases of the ear, nose and throat*, 1952. Josephine Collier's main professional interest was in otology and especially in the reparative surgery of facial nerve paralysis. She was versatile and enterprising and had a great variety of outside interests. She gave her assistance in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 and was instrumental in bringing Professor Joseph Trueta and his family from Barcelona to England. She was a seasoned traveller and with a Spanish woman friend she made several hazardous expeditions up the Orinoco, her special attraction to this river being explained by her as due to its having two right-angled bends like the facial nerve. She was an elegant, discerning, highly educated and artistic lady, a perfectionist in personal and professional life.
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First Title value, for Searching Marriage, Herbert James (1872 - 1946)

2024-05-06T17:13:19Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation Otologist
Details Born on 17 January 1872, the third son of James Marriage of Beckenham, Kent, merchant, and his wife Patience Jane Hayward. He was educated at the City of London School and St Thomas's Hospital, which he entered with a scholarship in 1891 and later served as house surgeon and house physician. After postgraduate study at Halle, Vienna, and Berlin, he was appointed surgical registrar at St Thomas's under Charles Ballance, and also surgical tutor. In 1904 he was appointed the first regular aural surgeon in the new ear department of St Thomas's, becoming consulting aural surgeon on his retirement in 1932, when the department merged into the new ear, nose, and throat unit; in 1924 a special aural house surgeon had been appointed to Marriage's department. He was also aural surgeon to the London Fever Hospital. During the 1914-18 war he continued to work at St Thomas's in its role as a general military hospital with the rank of captain, RAMC(T), gazetted 20 September 1915. He served for many years as clinical teacher of otology at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank. Marriage was that rare specialist, a pure otologist. He worthily carried on the great tradition of aural surgery created at St Thomas's by Sir Charles Ballance, and was particularly successful in improving the details of the radical mastoid operation; he evolved a special method of applying skin-grafts by suction in mastoid operations. He served as secretary of the section of otology at the British Medical Association meeting in 1910, and was president of the section of otology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1915. He was an examiner for the Diploma in Laryngology and Otology, Part 2, at the College in 1923-26. He married in 1910 Amy Grace, daughter of E W Richardson of Eastbourne, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. Marriage died on 12 January 1946 at Woldingham House, Woldingham, Surrey, five days before his seventy-fourth birthday. The funeral was at St Agatha's Church, Woldingham. Before retiring Marriage lived and practised at 109 Harley Street. Publications: A case of attempted division of the eighth nerve within the skull for the relief of tinnitus, with Cuthbert Wallace. *Lancet*, 1904, 1, 1192. Case of cerebellar abscess; operation; during the performance of artificial respiration. *Trans Otol Soc* 1907, 8, 41. Skin-grafting in mastoid operations. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1915, 9, otol sect, pp 8-24; *Practitioner*, 1916, 96, 174-181; *J Laryng*. 1916, 32, 73-80. War injuries and neuroses of otological interest. *J Laryng*. 1917, 32, 186.
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