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First Title value, for Searching Chawla, Jagdish Chandra (1934 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2015-12-14
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Occupation Rehabilitation specialist Spinal surgeon
Details Jagdish Chandra Chawla was consultant in charge of the rehabilitation and spinal injuries department at Rookwood Hospital, Cardiff. He studied medicine at Osmania College, Hyderabad, qualifying MB BS in 1956. He gained his FRCS in 1965. Prior to his appointment at Rookwood Hospital, he was an associate professor of surgery at the University of Malaya, a senior registrar in neurosurgery at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, and deputy director of the Avon stroke unit, also at Frenchay Hospital. He was a member of the International Medical Society of Paraplegia and the author of papers on urinary tract infections in spinal cord injuries. Jagdish Chandra Chawla died on 16 January 2013. He was 79. He was survived by his widow Maureen.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004783
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First Title value, for Searching Parry, George Roland (1915 - 1991)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-25
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Occupation Masseur Orthopaedic surgeon Rehabilitation specialist
Details Parry was born in Liverpool in 1915 and practised as a chartered masseur from 1933 to 1938 before studying medicine at University College Hospital, where he qualified in 1944. He subsequently held various posts at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and continued to attend weekly clinics there until his retirement in 1981. In 1958 he joined the artificial limb and appliance service as a medical officer, being based in Nottingham and then Roehampton. In 1968 he supervised the move of the artificial limb and appliance centre for Oxford region to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre; he then became the first honorary consultant in the service. Roland took a keen interest in all aspects of rehabilitating amputees; perhaps his greatest contribution was to develop an expert service for the prosthetic rehabilitation of children with congenital limb deficiencies. He died on 28 November 1991, survived by his wife, Audrey, a son and three daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008248
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First Title value, for Searching Plewes, Lawrence William (1908 - 1991)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-25
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Rehabilitation specialist
Details Laurie was born in Hans Harbour, Newfoundland, on 17 November 1908 and trained at the University of Toronto School. His mother was Ethel, née Burns, a nurse, and his father was a GP and surgeon, a founder-member of the Toronto East General Hospital. His eldest son followed him as surgeon in charge. Laurie came to England in 1933 as a Rockefeller scholar and worked in Birmingham and at the Wingfield Morris Orthopaedic Hospital as Nuffield Scholar in orthopaedics - where he made a lasting impression. He was appointed to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital in 1939, the year in which it opened. There he persuaded Vauxhall Motors to set up exemplary facilities for injured workers, pioneered the LeDun sheltered workshop for those severely disabled, and treated many hundreds of motorway and other road accident casualties. His life's work on rehabilitation of the injured, during which he was Chairman of the National Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Labour on employment of disabled persons, and consultant in rehabilitation to the World Health Organisation, was recognised by the award of the CBE in 1956 and the honorary FRCS in 1963. He wrote many articles, mainly on trauma and rehabilitation. In 1937 he married Faith Downing, a physiotherapist. They had two sons, the elder of whom, J L Plewes, qualified with the FRCS and took charge of the Birmingham Accident Hospital. Laurie Plewes died on 17 July 1991.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008260
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