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First Title value, for Searching Azmy, Ahmed Amir Mohamed Fouad (1939 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2013-10-18
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Occupation Paediatric urologist
Details Ahmed Amir Mohamed Fouad Azmy was a consultant paediatric urological surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow. He was born in Kafr el-Sheikh in Egypt on 1 November 1939, the son of Mohamed Fouad, an engineer, and Sania Mahmoud née Hassan, a teacher. He was educated in the port city of Damietta, and went on to study medicine at Ain Shams University in Cairo, qualifying in 1964. He first went to the UK in 1970, to train in paediatric surgery, later specialising in paediatric urology. He was a senior house officer and then registrar at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow from 1971 to 1973, then a registrar and subsequently a senior registrar at Westminster Children's Hospital from 1973 to 1978. For the next two years he was a senior registrar at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and was appointed as a consultant at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow in 1980. He was also an honorary clinical senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He retired in October 2004. He was a member of the British Association of Paediatric Urologists, of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and the British Association of Urological Surgeons. At an international level, he was a member of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology, the International Society of Paediatric Surgical Oncology and the European Society of Paediatric Oncology. He was an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Over the course of his career he published over 120 publications on paediatric urology and oncology topics, and co-edited three text books: *Surgical emergencies in children - a practical guide* (Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994), *The surgery of childhood tumours* (London, Arnold, 1999) and *Hypospadias surgery: an illustrated guide* (New York, London, Springer, c2004). He travelled extensively to meetings in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. He regularly visited Egypt, operating at hospitals in Cairo and Alexandria. He was a well-known member of the Egyptian community in the UK and, in 2004, was president of the Egyptian Medical Society UK. Outside medicine, he was interested in photography and painting. He died from prostate cancer on 10 March 2011, aged 71, and was survived by his wife, Fatima Mohsen, a retired consultant radiologist, their daughter, Iman, and son, Ayman, and two grandchildren. His daughter is a consultant breast surgeon.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001487
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First Title value, for Searching Gough, David Christopher Simmonds (1947 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-13
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Occupation Paediatric urologist
Details David Gough was consultant paediatric urologist at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. He was born on 7 July 1947 in Almondsbury, near Bristol, to Alan Gough, an electrical engineer, and Gillian née Shellard. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Liverpool University, where he helped to build a magnificent steam engine float for rag week, and met his future wife, Elizabeth. After qualifying he completed junior appointments at Broadgreen, the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, Addenbrooke’s and the Welsh National School of Medicine, during which time he was greatly influenced by Walpole Lewin and P P Rickham. He then spent two years at the Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital before being appointed to Manchester. At first he was a paediatric surgeon with a special interest in neonatal surgery, and gradually moved on to paediatric urology, where he was particularly interested in congenital abnormalities, including exstrophy (for which he set up the National Bladder Exstrophy Service) and spina bifida, for which he set up a special unit, the second in England. He was an enthusiastic proponent and founder-member of the British Association of Paediatric Urologists and of the European Society for Paediatric Urology. He inherited a passion for restoring old cars from his father, and in later life was interested in collecting art and enjoying good wine. A committed Christian, he worked tirelessly for the underprivileged in Manchester and Salford, for whom he established a refuge. He married Elizabeth Brice in 1970. They had three children, one of whom became a doctor. He died on 29 March 2005 after a short illness.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000174
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First Title value, for Searching Eckstein, Herbert Bernhard (1926 - 1986)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon Paediatric urologist
Details Herbert Bernhard Eckstein was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, on 11 July 1926. His father Albert Eckstein was Professor of Paediatrics in Dusseldorf, Hamburg and then in Ankara (Turkey) where his family settled in the early 1930's. His mother, Erna, was the daughter of Professor A Schlossmann, Professor in Paediatrics in Dresden and Dusseldorf. Indeed three generations of doctors in these families were involved in medical or surgical paediatrics. Herbert was educated privately in Turkey until 1939 and then from 1939 to 1944 at the Leys School Cambridge, Clare College 1944-1947 and the Middlesex Hospital 1947 to 1950 qualifying MRCS, LRCP and MB, BCh and MA in 1950 and then passing the Final FRCS examination in 1957, MD Cambridge 1960 and MCh 1962. In his training he was influenced by Brian Truscott and Philip Ghey, Denis Browne and George Macnab. After spending two years in Hacettepe Children's Hospital, Ankara, he returned to Great Ormond Street in 1961 with a Rockefeller Foundation grant, being a senior registrar and becoming consultant at Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton, 1963, the Children's Hospital, Sydenham, 1964, and Great Ormond Street, 1965. He was an examiner for the DCH, he lectured on RCS courses and was a member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida. He was a tireless worker, devoted to his specialty, and his output of surgical papers was prodigious, amounting to some two hundred, covering a range of paediatric conditions, especially hydrocephalus and paediatric urology. He contributed several chapters to *Paediatric urology*, 1968, edited by D I Williams, and to *Surgical paediatric urology*, 1977, with R Hohenfellner and D I Williams. He was an honorary member of the German Society of Paediatric Surgeons, corresponding member of the German Urological Association and co-editor of *Zeitschrift fur Kinderchirurgie*. He married Maria Schroder in 1955 and they had one daughter, Susan and two sons, Philip, and Michael who became a doctor. He enjoyed tennis in his youth and cooking and translating German/English texts. He died on 5 November 1986 after ill health had forced him into early retirement.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007242
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First Title value, for Searching Rickwood, Anthony Michael Kent (1940 - 2015)

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by David Lloyd
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2016-05-27
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Occupation Paediatric urologist
Details Tony Rickwood, paediatric urologist at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, played a seminal role in establishing paediatric urology as a recognised specialty in the United Kingdom and was a founder member of the British Association of Paediatric Urologists in 1990. He was an internationally recognised authority on the paediatric neuropathic bladder. Tony was born in London, where his father was a chemical engineer with ICI. After the war, during which Tony was briefly evacuated to Durham, his family moved to Sheffield, where he spent his childhood and attended King Edward VII School. An outstanding pupil, he won an open scholarship to University College, Oxford, qualifying in medicine in 1965. After junior posts at the Radcliffe Infirmary and a demonstratorship in human anatomy, he returned to Sheffield for his general surgical training at the Royal Hospital. The rotation introduced him to urology, renal transplantation and paediatric surgery, and in 1974 he began specialist training in paediatric surgery at Sheffield Children's Hospital. In 1979 Tony was appointed to a newly created consultant post in spinal injuries and spina bifida at the Sheffield Children's Hospital and Lodge Moor spinal injuries unit, where he established an innovative urological service for young spina bifida patients. In 1983 he succeeded the eminent J Herbert (Herbie) Johnston as consultant paediatric urologist at the Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, where he remained until his retirement in 2001. Despite a profound dislike of flying, before taking up his consultant appointment at the Alder Hey Hospital he made the journey to the United States to visit a number of major centres. On his return he became one of the first paediatric urologists in Europe to implant artificial urinary sphincters. He was also amongst the first to introduce urodynamics into paediatric practice. Tony's clinical practice, publications and teaching were founded on an unrivalled understanding of the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of the lower urinary tract. Some of his publications on neuropathic bladder dysfunction in children remain amongst the most authoritative accounts of this condition ever written, and are respected for their objectivity and freedom from bias. He impressed this objective analytical approach on his trainees and was greatly respected as a teacher. His pre-eminent clinical expertise was in relation to the neuropathic bladder and vesico-ureteric reflux. He challenged the accepted operative approach and, based on logical evaluation of the evidence, was a proponent of non-operative management for most children with vesico-ureteric reflux and ureterocoele. Tony also published a number of influential studies on the impact of antenatal diagnosis on the management and medium term outcome of a range of urological conditions. His findings contributed to a shift in practice away from early (and often unnecessary) surgery in children with antenatally detected hydronephrosis, ureterocoele and multicystic dysplastic kidney. A strong advocate for the prepuce, Tony sought to reduce the large number of unnecessary 'medical' circumcisions being performed on children, predominately by adult general surgeons, by providing convincing evidence that circumcision rarely was justified for medical reasons before the age of five. His influence on paediatric surgical practice in respect of ureterocoele, vesico-ureteric reflux, antenatally detected hydronephrosis and circumcision across the United Kingdom and beyond saved thousands of children from needless operations. Tony was a highly intelligent, modest man who did not seek publicity or fame. As a speaker, and indeed generally, he was a man of few words and those he uttered were well chosen and relevant. He was in demand as a speaker and his international standing could have been even greater had his aversion to flying not discouraged him from travelling to venues he could not reach by train. Few will forget his lecture on the neuropathic bladder that he gave for many years on the British Association of Paediatric Urologists' Cambridge course, which portrayed his consummate expertise. Many of his publications in books and peer-reviewed journals are relevant to present day practice; joint editorship of *Essentials paediatric urology* (London, Martin Dunitz, 2002) and much of the writing within it allowed Tony to bequeath his experience to future generations of paediatric urologists. A passionate interest of Tony's was railways. Combined with his aversion to flying and the fact that he did not drive a car, this lead to an encyclopaedic knowledge of train timetables in the United Kingdom mainly, but also in countries around the world, many of which he had not even visited. His love of railways was reflected in his substantial personal contribution to the cost of reopening an important section of the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways. Tony knew the history of every mile of the railways of northern Wales and a day spent in his company travelling on these historic trains through the Welsh valleys was a rewarding experience. Another interest was Meccano, the metal model construction system, in which he also indulged with enthusiasm. In the hall of his home stands a full-size grandfather clock made entirely out of Meccano, powered by an electric automatic rewinding mechanism. Tony was a true gentleman who will be remembered for his individuality and sharp intellect. His modesty, economy with words and wry sense of humour are nicely captured in the biography he provided at the time of his retirement: 'BIOGRAPHY - AMK Rickwood: Born in Isleworth, Middlesex; raised in Sheffield; educated, after a fashion, at Oxford; surgically trained in Sheffield, predominantly; and, after sixteen years as Paediatric Urologist in Liverpool, getting on a bit. Any "expertise" possessed represents not a "special interest" but rather an exercise in making a virtue of necessity.' While a house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Tony met Valerie Prew, a theatre sister, whom he married in 1968 in the chapel at University College. He was survived by Valerie, their four children, Sarah, Elizabeth, Alice, and Tom, and seven grandchildren.
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