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First Title value, for Searching Bendeich, Geoffrey Joseph (1928 - 2006)

2024-05-07T13:12:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-10-19
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Occupation Hand surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon Specialist in sports medicine
Details Geoffrey Joseph Bendeich was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, Queensland, Australia. He was born on 30 December 1928, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Bendeich and attended the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane, where he played rugby in the first 15. He studied medicine at the University of Queensland and qualified in 1951. He went to the UK for further training in surgery and gained his FRCS in 1957. In 1958 he married Diana Austin, an English doctor he had met when they were both working at a hospital in London. They went back to Queensland, Australia and lived in Ascot, Brisbane. Bendeich became an orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, specialising in the emerging fields of hand surgery and sports medicine. He was a founder member of the Australian Hand Surgery Society. He and Diana had six children: twins Richard and Julie, Graham, Tim, Mark and Suzie. Bendeich died on 9 April 2006. He was 77.
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First Title value, for Searching Toyne, Albert Howard (1920 - 2002)

2024-05-07T13:12:29Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-11-25 2017-04-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378621378621
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Specialist in sports medicine
Details Howard Toyne was a pioneer of sports medicine in Australia. He was born in Dandenong, Victoria, Australia on 10 November 1920, the son of Albert Toyne, a meat inspector, and Marion Crozet Toyne née Marsh, a housewife and the daughter of a station master. He attended the University High School in Melbourne, and then went on to study medicine at Melbourne University and Alfred Hospital, qualifying in 1944. He was a resident at Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne, and then, from 1944 to 1948, served in Japan with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Occupational Forces. Following his demobilisation, he worked in general practice in Cooroy, south east Queensland. He then went to the UK for further training. He worked as a registrar at Connaught Hospital, Walthamstow and at the Rowley Bristow Hospital, Pyrford, and gained his FRCS in 1954. He returned to Melbourne, to Prince Henry's Hospital, as an orthopaedic surgeon and developed his interest in sports medicine. He also held a consultant appointment with the RAAF. He worked as a doctor with Australian teams at the 1956 and 1964 Olympics, and was sports medicine liaison officer to the Australian Olympic Committee (a position he held until 1973). He was a founding member and then president of the Australian Sports Medicine Federation. He was instrumental in getting a world sports medicine conference staged in Melbourne in 1974 and served on the executive of the Fédération Internationale de Medicine Sportive from 1972 to 1982. He was director of the St John Ambulance Association and president of the Victorian branch of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Outside medicine, he enjoyed cycling, Australian rules football, golf, swimming and walking. In retirement, he lived in Tewantin, Queensland, and became very active in two local life saving clubs. He was also regularly seen at the Tewantin Bowls Club. He was married twice. In 1944 he married Claire Briggs, a nurse, and then, in 1979, Josephine, a stenographer. He had three children, Peter, Phillip and Michael (who predeceased him). Howard Toyne died on 4 September 2002. He was 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, Robert Wilson (1932 - 2010)

2024-05-07T13:12:29Z

by David Dandy
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2015-11-20
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Specialist in sports medicine
Details Robert Wilson 'Bob' Jackson was a pioneer of arthroscopy in North America. He was born in Toronto in 1932 of Scottish parents. He attended the University of Toronto Schools and qualified as a doctor with the University of Toronto MD in 1956. An outstanding athlete as a student, he played Canadian football for the university junior team, but was unable to progress after rupturing an anterior cruciate ligament playing lacrosse. No successful treatment was available for such an injury in those days. He was also a successful boxer, but retired when he discovered there was an association with brain damage. After a rotating internship in Toronto, he completed a year's research into fractures of the tibia, for which he received the International Award of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Two years training in general surgery in Toronto and a year of research in Boston followed before he went to England, where he spent 18 months at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and a year in Bristol working for Kenneth Pridie. He was invited to apply for Pridie's post after his death, but was strongly urged to return to Toronto, where he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 1963. His career was shaped in 1964 when he travelled to Tokyo with a McLaughlin travelling fellowship to learn tissue culture techniques, for which it was necessary to learn Japanese in evening classes. At the suggestion of Ian Macnab of Toronto he sought out Masaki Watanabe in Tokyo to assess reports that he was able to derive useful information from examining the knee with an endoscope. Although Watanabe's work was known in the English-speaking world, he was almost unknown in Japan. Without an address it was not easy to make contact with Watanabe, but he was eventually found at the Tokyo Teishin Hospital, which was dedicated to the care of postal workers. Watanabe spoke no English, but agreed to teach Bob Jackson arthroscopy if he would teach him English in return. The two remained firm friends and in 1974 Bob Jackson became founder member and vice president of the International Arthroscopy Association under the presidency of Masaki Watanabe. In the same year Bob Jackson was appointed consultant to the Canadian Olympic team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, where he met Sir Ludwig Guttmann of Stoke Mandeville Hospital during the Paraplegic Olympics that followed. There were no Canadian entrants. On his return to Toronto Jackson founded Canada Wheelchair Sports, taking a small team to the Stoke Mandeville Games in 1966 and a much larger Canadian team to the 1968 Paraplegic Olympics in Tel Aviv. He was invited to join the board of the international movement, became vice president in 1972 and ran the 1976 Olympiad for the Disabled in Toronto, where conditions other than paraplegia were included for the first time, perhaps making it the first true Paralympics. He succeeded Sir Ludwig Guttmann as international president in 1980 and in 1997 was awarded the Olympic Order, the highest award of the Olympic movement. He received the Paralympic Order in 2005. On returning to Toronto from Japan in 1965, after a further six months involved with tissue culture in Boston, Bob Jackson joined the staff at the Toronto General Hospital. There he developed diagnostic arthroscopy and the basic techniques of arthroscopic surgery before the introduction of fibre optic cables, fibre light or endoscopic television. In those days the light source was a small tungsten bulb that would sometimes break within the knee, making it essential to have a second arthroscope available to remove the fragments. Bob Jackson became chief of orthopaedics at the Toronto Western Hospital in 1976 and a full professor in the University of Toronto in 1982. In 1985 he was appointed chief of staff and surgery at the Orthopaedic and Arthritic Hospital in Toronto until his appointment as chief of orthopaedics at Baylor University Medical Centre in Dallas and professor of surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in 1992. He lectured widely both in North America and internationally, and was probably responsible more than any other individual for teaching the safe practice of arthroscopic surgery around the world. Those who doubted the potential of arthroscopy, of whom there were many, would be invited to Toronto, where he would entertain them and demonstrate the technique in person. His teaching was clear, reasoned and free of the fanatical zeal sometimes seen in surgical pioneers. Bob Jackson was a big man, well over 6' tall, with a quiet manner that commanded attention. He was admired for his integrity, decency and humble demeanour, characteristics combined with a sharp but gentle sense of humour. He married Marilyn in 1961 before they came to England and they were immensely proud of their five children and eight grandchildren. He died on 6 January 2010. Bob Jackson received many honours. In addition to those already mentioned, these include an Officer of the Order of Canada, the Award of Merit from the City of Toronto, an honorary fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons, the Lister Prize in Surgery from the University of Toronto, the founders' medal of the Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society, the JC Kennedy Award for Research in Sports Medicine, the Award for Excellence in Research from the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the Jackson-Burrows Medal of the Royal National Orthopaedic Institute and an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
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First Title value, for Searching Moulton, John Egan (1930 - 2012)

2024-05-07T13:12:29Z

by Martin Jones
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2016-12-01
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Occupation General surgeon Specialist in sports medicine
Details John Egan Moulton was born in Molong, NSW in 1930, moved to Cootamundra with his mother and father and brother Bill, and then onto Broken Hill. He moved to Sydney to finish his schooling at Newington, becoming the 4th generation Moulton to be at the school. John played both rugby and cricket - sports he continued, first at Sydney University where he studied medicine and then at Royal North Shore Hospital where he was on the cricket team. John moved to England, where he worked as a surgical registrar at Ashford Hospital, and obtained post graduate surgical fellowships at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and Royal College of Surgeons, England. Sport was never far from John's agenda and while in England he played cricket for Australia House in London. John was appointed to Royal North Shore Hospital (with cousin Ray Hollings). This was followed by his appointment as Staff Surgeon at Lidcombe State Hospital in 1962 (where he also joined the cricket team!!) John then moved into private practice at Auburn District Hospital, where he was appointed Honorary Medical Officer of Surgery. At the same time, he was appointed to the staff at the Repatriation Hospital at Concord. This is a man who indeed showed the necessity to parallel surgery with patient care, to provide total care of the ill and needy, and not just list them as a condition in a bed. He showed students, junior doctors and professors how to treat the whole patient, and always involved the family. A man well before his time, he concentrated on extremely efficient techniques of operating, but was just as rigid in having a full plan for his patients, post operatively and on discharge. John adored many things, all with a passion that was palpable. His children (Deb, Sue and Jaimie) and grandchildren were number one on his list of loves. A tough task master, the children at times, I am sure, experienced as much expectation of their performance, equal to, if not more, than many of his trainees. He enjoyed education, he nurtured the rigor of questioning research and the accepted maxims of schooling and Surgery alike. He was a deft hand at all General Surgery and his simultaneous lists at Auburn Hospital, were the highlight of his registrars training. The white-coated registrars (evidence of bygone, maybe better days) around the bed of a patient, trying to mimic John's ability to define illness and treatment, yet know the football team they followed, and yes, with his true Scottish nature, where to pick up a bargain or two from the patients' businesses. He was very proud of his registrars and students and they were equal, if not more proud to be known as one of Mr Moulton's team. John was able to be friends with doctor, nurse, physiotherapist and cleaner. He taught us that no one person was more important than another in a team. He will be loved forever by stoma- nurse and administrators alike, because all were important to him. Then there was the rugby! John moved to being the team doctor for Eastwood Rugby club, when Sports Medicine was not an entity. Through his enthusiasm the role of the Rugby Doctor became vital and necessary. Safety for the players and a regard for their medical state whilst playing and importantly after retirement, was now a developing focus at all levels of the sport. John was lying in a hospital bed having survived being operated on by me when he applied and was appointed to the position of Team Doctor for the Australian Rugby Union. John's thirst for knowledge regarding all aspects of this form of medicine was untiring. Hand written charts on each team member, the condition of the ground and temperatures played were carefully kept and then entered onto his surgical unit's computer (Apple 512k). He recognized the problems of these amateurs/semi-professionals and was the first to understand the importance of malnutrition/anaemia in dealing with rugby players working and studying and still expected to train almost full time. He still, often bought his own entry tickets into the games and spent many hours in a change room doing neurological observations on yet another concussed player (initially it could have been from either side not just an Australian Player). Improvements occurred in all aspects of care of the Rugby players and even with hip and knee replacements, John kept putting up his hand up to continue the work he had started so many years previously. He worked with many coaches from Alan Jones and Bob Dwyer to all levels of trainers and enjoyed all of these times (even overcoming signs in the medical rooms that "Wimps don't win"). Upon his resignation in 2000, John was honoured by being made a Life Member of the ARU for services to rugby. He was bestowed the Order of Australia (OAM) on 1 May 1997 for service to surgery and medical education, particularly in relation to Sports Medicine. His passion and hard work in both sport and medicine led John to volunteer for the SOCOG Doping Control team for the Sydney Olympics, John was promoted to be a Medical Commissioner of the International Olympic Committee, the IOC and the International Paralympic Committee. John retired to the Gold Coast in 2005 to be near family and friends. Dr John Moulton died on 21 September 2012 and he will be missed. To his family, I assure you that his legacy will never be lost. His students, now doctors of many varieties teach his rules and values every day. His surgical registrars, now surgeons and professors around the globe continue the fight to provide total patient care, not just operations. Finally, from a corner of the T G Milner field at Eastwood, where, if you listen carefully you might just hear the strains of Geoff Harvey on the piano and the clink of a middy glass, to the roar of yet another Bledisloe Cup tussle in a stadium in New Zealand, you know that John will be there, dressed immaculately in his Australian team gear, scarf just so, leaning forward on his seat and smiling.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009172
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First Title value, for Searching Markham, David Eric (1936 - 2016)

2024-05-07T13:12:29Z

by Phil Hirst
Publication Date 2016-08-25 2017-06-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381424381424
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Specialist in sports medicine
Details David Markham was an orthopaedic surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire on 2 May 1936, the son of Eric, an accountant, and Betsy, a housewife. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, David's father was turned down for active service because of a long-term injury and the family moved to Leeds, where Eric became company secretary of Heatons Garment Manufacturers. David attended Gildersome Church of England Primary School and, after being successful in his 11+, Batley Grammar School. Because of a period of illness during the sixth form, he had to take his 'A' levels at differing times. His mother had always said that David wanted to be a doctor since the age of five, so it was no surprise that he applied to Sheffield and Manchester medical schools. He was given places at both, but went to Sheffield because he could start a year earlier. He began his studies in 1954 and qualified in 1961 with prizes in medicine and surgery. His first house jobs were at Sheffield Royal Hospital, where Douglas Robinson was his surgical consultant. David always wanted to be a surgeon, and his sights were set initially on being a general surgeon. Upon completing his house jobs, he became a senior house officer in the casualty department and then spent two years as a lecturer in physiology at the University of Sheffield. It was during this time that he took his primary fellowship successfully in Dublin. In January 1967, he obtained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. He spent two years on the training programme in Sheffield doing a variety of jobs, including paediatrics and plastics, as well as general and orthopaedic surgery. It was during this time that he developed an interest in orthopaedic surgery. John Rowling, one of the general surgeons at Sheffield, did take his wife to one side at one point and asked if she could possibly try and persuade him to change his mind about his future career as he felt David had a talent for general surgery. He became a senior registrar in Sheffield in 1968 working with Alford Dornan and Frank Taylor. He had a lot of respect for both of these surgeons and learnt a lot about the technical aspects of orthopaedics and patient management while working with them. David was one of four senior registrars in Sheffield. In 1972, he became a senior lecturer at Sheffield Royal Hospital in orthopaedic surgery and remained in this post for six months until applying for the consultant job at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was successful in this and went there to join a fellow Yorkshire man, Norman Shaw, whom David had known in Sheffield. David developed his skills whilst at Manchester Royal and took a particular interest in the treatment of soft tissue sarcomas and developmental dysplasia of the hip. He continued his interests in these topics throughout his time at the Royal Infirmary, but also built up a practice in sports medicine, as he was consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Manchester City Football Club for many years. The orthopaedic training programme in Manchester was quite small when David was first appointed, with virtually every senior trainee in the region working on his unit and benefitting from his great knowledge and operative skill. He developed a private practice, which grew over the years and alongside this became quite involved in medico-legal work. In 1979, he became specialty adviser to the Medical Defence Union (MDU), served on the council from 1980 and was made a founder member of the board of directors in 1991. In 1997, he was appointed as vice chairman of the board and became its chairman and also the president of the company, in which capacity he served until retiring in 2006. His term of office as chairman coincided with enormous change, to the medico-legal environment, in the composition of the board and in the organisation's location (in 2001 it moved from Devonshire Place to Southwark and the Manchester office closed). Peter Williams, the president, comments that throughout this time David put the company's interests first. He will be remembered as a loyal servant to the MDU, who remained true to the principles of the organisation. He retired from the MDU at the age of 70, but carried on his medico-legal practice until 2010, when he finally retired from all clinical work. In his retirement years, he enjoyed the company of his grandchildren and travel. His mother-in-law lived in Canada until her death in 1991, and he and his wife visited her quite frequently. From then onwards, they travelled in the Far East and Asia, going to many of the countries around Vietnam and Cambodia. During his time as chairman of the Medical Defence Union he had to visit the Australian office quite frequently and used this time to explore Australia. David was a modest man. He kept his work and family lives separate, but he had endless patience and time for his trainees, colleagues and patients. He was an excellent surgeon, as well as an excellent clinician. He was a superb clinical trainer and many orthopaedic surgeons in the northwest of England owe their enthusiasm for orthopaedic surgery to him. He was troubled throughout his life with deafness, which got progressively worse as he got older and, once he retired, he had a cochlear implant to enable him to once again listen to music and attend concerts. He was an avid gardener, enjoying the cultivation of both flowers and vegetables. He was a great reader and enjoyed watching sport, particularly during his time as surgeon to Manchester City. He played cricket as a teenager and at university. David Markham died on 24 May 2016 aged 80 and was survived by his wife, Rosalie, and his sons Richard, Paul and Matthew, as well as six grandchildren, to whom he was devoted.
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