Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Radiotherapist - Radiologist

First Title value, for Searching Burton, Ross Fordyce (1922 - 2012)

2024-05-21T07:27:36Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-08-12
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Occupation Radiologist Radiotherapist
Details Ross Fordyce Burton, known as ‘Peter’, was a consultant radiotherapist in Auckland, New Zealand. He was born on 19 September 1922 in Auckland, New Zealand, the son of Percy Robert Burton, a school principal, and Millicent Evaline Burton née French. He attended school in Opotiki, then at Brixton Road School in Mount Eden, Auckland and at Mount Albert Grammar, where he played tennis, cricket and football and gained a university scholarship. He spent a preliminary year at Auckland University and then went on to Otago Medical School, where he spent five years, qualifying in 1946. He became an anatomy demonstrator and was a teacher in the anatomy department. He was subsequently a house surgeon at the Mater Misercordiae and Middlemore hospitals in Auckland. In 1949 he went to London where he studied for his FRCS, which he gained in 1953. During his time in London he was a locum casualty officer at the Royal Northern Hospital. He also spent time in Cambridge, where he trained in radiotherapy. He returned to Auckland in 1954 and began working as a radiotherapist at Auckland Hospital. Five years later he became the head of the department. He retired in 1987. During his retirement he played golf and farmed sheep. He was married to Leonore. He had two sons, Peter and Simon, and two grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009764
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First Title value, for Searching McEwan, Irene Margaret Stanford (1925 - 2000)

2024-05-21T07:27:36Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation Radiologist Radiotherapist
Details Irene Margaret Stanford McEwan née Cade was a consultant radiologist in Portsmouth. She was born in London on 15 January 1925, the second daughter of Sir Stanford Cade, the surgeon, and Margaret Hester née Agate, the daughter of the organist at Paisley Abbey. Irene was educated at Queen's College, Harley Street, Aylesbury College and Malvern Girls' College. She studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital, where she won the Gwendolynne Lynn prize in surgery. She did house appointments at the Royal Free, East Ham Memorial Hospital, the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton and Great Ormond Street. Attracted to her father's specialty, she studied hypophysectomy for carcinoma of the breast and prostate, making this the subject of her MS thesis in 1959. Later she qualified in radiotherapy and was appointed consultant radiotherapist in Portsmouth in 1962, where she became an exponent of megavoltage therapy in hyperbaric oxygen. She died on 28 November 2000.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008773
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First Title value, for Searching Van den Brenk, Hendrick Athos Sydney (1921 - 1992)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380560380560
Occupation Oncologist Radiologist Radiotherapist
Details Hendrick Van den Brenk, a radiotherapist, radiologist and experimental oncologist in Australia and England, was born on 22 June 1921 in Sydney, Australia, and qualified MB BS at Melbourne in 1944. He gained the MS degree in 1954, the same year in which he passed the Fellowship. After practising as a general surgeon in Boort, Victoria, he spent two years as senior research fellow in physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons. Returning to Australia, he was consultant radiotherapy research officer at the Melbourne Cancer Institute from 1956 to 1967. He then became Richard Dimbleby Fellow in Cancer Research and honorary consultant physician at St Thomas's Hospital, London, from 1967 to 1978, becoming the Foundation Richard Dimbleby Professor of Cancer Research at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School from 1975 to 1978. On returning to Australia he was SMO (Appeals) on the Repatriation Committee from 1979 and SMO of the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs. Harold Hewitt, MD, FRCR, writes in the *British Medical Journal*: '"Van" had an international reputation as a clinical radiotherapist, radiobiologist and oncologist. He published over 250 papers which, fifteen years after his retirement from clinical and laboratory work, retained a high citation index. 'While working as chief of the radiobiomedical unit of Melbourne Cancer Institute Van carried out one of the first controlled clinical trials of hyperbaric oxygen as an adjunct to radiotherapy. In 1967 he was appointed foundation director of the Richard Dimbleby Laboratory of Cancer Research at St Thomas's Hospital, London. There he devoted himself to experimental research at the bench. After returning to Australia in 1977 for family reasons he became senior medical officer of the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs and then, after his 'retirement', medical officer to a high security prison. 'Van's toughness (he lost the sight of one eye in infancy and had severe angina for his last twenty years and malignant disease for his last three) contrasted with his sensitive nature. He was a talented violinist and pianist and a philatelist and angler. His acerbic rejection of overpromoted theories and inflated egos was given an extra edge by a guttural ingredient (from his Dutch parentage) in his Australian accent. His wife, Miriam, died before him; he is survived by his daughters, Christine and Judy, and six grandchildren.' He died on 21 August 1992, aged 72 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008377
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First Title value, for Searching Windeyer, Sir Brian Wellingham (1904 - 1994)

2024-05-21T07:27:36Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380600380600
Occupation Radiologist Radiotherapist
Details Brian Windeyer was born in Sydney on 7 February 1904, the son of Richard Windeyer QC, a barrister, and Mabel Robinson, whose father had graduated in medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. His family had been associated with the legal profession in Australia for five generations. He was educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School, and St Andrew's College, University of Sydney. As a young man he played rugby as scrum-half for Sydney University and for the combined Australian and New Zealand Universities, and he never lost interest in this sport. He qualified in 1927 and decided to make radiotherapy his chosen career in medicine. In 1929 he went to Paris to work as assistant to Claude Regaud at the Fondation Curie, and in 1931 he was appointed radium officer to the Middlesex Hospital, an association which lasted for the next 38 years. In 1936 he became medical officer in charge of the new Meyerstein Institute of Radiotherapy, and in 1942 he was appointed to the chair of radiology (therapeutic) at the Middlesex. With the outbreak of the second world war he was appointed director of the Emergency Medical Service radiotherapy department at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, while also working as medical commandant of the Middlesex Hospital. He had a multi-disciplinary approach to cancer and started weekly combined clinics with other specialists and joint ward rounds with Sir Stanford Cade at Mount Vernon, a practice which is universal today, though unusual at that time. In 1954 he was appointed Dean of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, and within a short time introduced plans for its redevelopment. Generous financial support was forthcoming form Lord Astor of Hever and Sir Edward Lewis and others, and over the next eight years the new school (named the Windeyer Building) and a new students' residence (Astor College) were built. Brian Windeyer always showed great interest in student activities, and held this post until 1967. He was President of the Faculty of Radiologists from 1949 to 1952, a member of Council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1948 to 1953, and Hunterian Professor in 1951. He served on numerous governmental committees, including the Royal Commission on Medical Education, and he was Chairman of both the Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee (1961-1970) and the National Radiological Protection Board (1970-1978). He was adviser to the Ministry of Health and the Atomic Energy Authority, and a member of the Medical Research Council. He was knighted in 1961. He was also awarded numerous honorary fellowships and doctorates from universities, both at home and abroad. In 1967 he was appointed chairman of the academic council of London University, and vice-chancellor two years later (1969-1972). By now a public figure, he was involved in some controversy when he deplored the rising tide of sexual permissiveness and indiscipline amongst students, practices which he did not hesitate to condemn. Brian Windeyer will be remembered especially for his contributions to radiotherapy, his enormous energy and organisational ability, and his approachability and humanity as a doctor. He married twice - firstly in 1928 to Joyce Russell (they had a son and a daughter) and secondly in 1948 to Anne Bowrey (they had a son and two daughters). He died in Oxford, aged 90, on 26 October 1994.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008417
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