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First Title value, for Searching Strahan, Joseph Dermot (1933 - 2019)

2024-05-12T11:02:38Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-07-04
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299
Occupation Periodontologist
Details J Dermot Strahan was head of the department of periodontology at the Institute of Dental Surgery, Eastman Dental Hospital, 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
Resource Identifier RCS: E010270
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First Title value, for Searching Cowan, Adrian William David (1919 - 1996)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2023-08-17
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499
Occupation Dental surgeon Periodontologist Oral surgeon
Details Adrian William David Cowan, known as ‘Eddy’, was chief of the department of periodontology at Dublin Dental Hospital, a consultant oral surgeon in the city, and dean of the faculty of dental surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was born on 26 August 1919 in Dublin, into an Orthodox Jewish family. His father, Alfred (‘Abe’) Cowan, was a dentist; his mother was Elizabeth (‘Lib’) Cowan née Nurock. The family name Cohen had been changed to Cowan in the early 1900s by Abe and his brothers. Cowan attended St Andrew’s College and Sandford Park School, both in Dublin, and in 1936 went on to study at Trinity College Dublin. He gained a BA in 1939, his BDentSc in 1941 and qualified as a doctor in 1943, winning prizes along the way. Cowan joined his father’s dental practice at 19 Harcourt Street, Dublin. He gained the FDSRCS in 1950 – one of the first dental surgeons in Ireland to do so – and developed a large dental practice. He was a visiting dental surgeon and chief of the department of periodontology at Dublin Dental Hospital and a consultant oral surgeon at Royal City of Dublin Hospital, the National Children’s Hospital and Mercer’s Hospital, Dublin. He carried out clinical dental research, particularly on local anaesthesia, wrote more than 40 publications, made films and lectured and gave demonstrations and seminars throughout the world. He taught part-time at the Incorporated Dental Hospital of Ireland and was a lecturer and examiner in dental surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) from 1951 to 1963. At the RCSI he was a founding fellow of the faculty of dentistry (in 1963), the first vice dean (1963 to 1966) and second dean (1966 to 1969). He was president of the odontological section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (from 1957 to 1959) and also a fellow, and was president of the Irish Dental Association (from 1977 to 1978). He was on the list of honour of the Fédération Dentaire Internationale (FDI), the first Irishman to be so honoured, and became a member, then vice chairman and finally chairman of the FDI's commission on dental education (from 1964 to 1970). He was a fellow of the American College of Dentists, the British Association of Oral Surgeons and the International College of Dentists, a member of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, which recognises leaders in the dental profession, and an honorary member of the American Dental Association and the International Association of Dental Research. He enjoyed music, art, travel, playing golf and being with his family. In 1943 he married Phyllis Boland. They had four children. Pam, Gillian (Gilly), David and Peter. Peter also became a dental surgeon and followed his father as dean of the faculty of dentistry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Sadly, Cowan suffered from Parkinson’s Disease during his final years. He died on 18 November 1996 at the age of 77. The Adrian Cowan medal was established by the Cowan family in his memory and is awarded to the best fourth year undergraduate student in the Dublin Dental School.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010451
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First Title value, for Searching Zamet, John Saville (1932 - 2007)

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by H Preiskel
Publication Date 2023-08-02
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399
Occupation Periodontologist
Details John Zamet was a champion of periodontology in the UK. He founded the first exclusively periodontal practice in London in 1966 where he continued to work until his retirement in 2001. He was the first UK periodontist to participate in the Bränemark Osseointegration Programme. He was a gifted lecturer and a charismatic and kind teacher. His wise and confidential counsel was often sought by aspiring specialists and many who were already in senior positions. Always willing to help an individual or worthy cause, his smiling and apparently relaxed manner belied a burning passion for perfection that governed every aspect of his activities. Many a colleague has reason to be grateful to him. Born in London in 1932, John qualified in dentistry at the Royal Dental Hospital in 1955 and obtained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1958. Between 1956 and 1962 he worked in the periodontology departments at the Eastman, Guy’s and the Royal Dental Hospital, following which he obtained a postgraduate Fellowship to the University of Philadelphia. On return to London he became Senior Lecturer at the Royal Dental Hospital and then Consultant in Periodontology at University College Hospital Dental School. He obtained his MPhil investigating the clinical outcomes of surgical periodontal therapy in 1974. Following the closure of UCH Dental School he was appointed Honorary Consultant in the Department of Periodontology at the Eastman in 1995, remaining there until he retired. John was determined that periodontology should be recognised as a specialty in the UK and initiated the process, through the British Society of Periodontology, that eventually established the specialist list. John was both the first and twenty-fifth Chairman of the London Chapter of the Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity and served as Secretary of its London Charitable Trust. He approached Ambassador Walter Annenberg to fund the Annenberg Lecture and Travelling Scholarship which sponsored the postgraduate education of three students and endowed the Annenberg Lecture for years to come. John retired reluctantly from active dentistry in 2001. Always seeking a challenge he went on to complete an MA at UCL in Holocaust Studies and in 2007 was awarded his PhD from Oxford Brookes for a thesis on ‘German and Austrian Refugee Dentists 1933-1939, The Response of The British Authorities.’ He is survived by his wife Susan, son Richard, daughter Kate and one grandson.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010382
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