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First Title value, for Searching Brewin, Ernest Garside (1920 - 2010)

2024-05-20T01:45:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-02-02 2014-01-24
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Ernest Garside Brewin was a consultant thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon in Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford. He was born in Batley, Yorkshire, on 22 February 1930, the son of Willie Beaumont Brewin, a warehouse manager. His mother's maiden name was Garside. He was educated at Carlinghow Elementary School and then Batley Grammar School. He went on to study medicine in Leeds. He was a house surgeon at the General Infirmary in Leeds, and then a demonstrator in physiology at the University of Leeds. He subsequently became a research fellow in cardiovascular surgery at Guy's Hospital, a lecturer in surgery at the University of Glasgow, and assistant director on the surgical unit and a surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital, London. He was then appointed to his consultant post at Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford. He listed E R Flint in Leeds, P R Allison, Sir Charles Illingworth and Lord Brock as the surgeons who had most influenced him. He was interested in music and the history of mathematics and science. In 1950 he married Rhoda Eleanor Taylor. They had one daughter. Ernest Garside Brewin died on 26 September 2010, aged 80.
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First Title value, for Searching Logan, Andrew (1906 - 2005)

2024-05-20T01:45:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-12-24 2017-04-18
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon General surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Andrew Logan was a pioneer of cardiothoracic surgery in Edinburgh. He was born in Dairsie, Fife on 6 November 1906. His family were farmers. He left school at 16 and went to St Andrews University, gaining an MA in 1926. He then turned to medicine, qualifying in 1929. He went on to train in Newcastle with George Mason, one of the pioneers of thoracic surgery and the pair carried out the first pneumonectomy in Britain. During the Second World War Logan was a military surgeon in Egypt. In 1948 he was invited to establish a thoracic surgical unit in Edinburgh and, with his colleagues, David Wade, Bobby McCormack and Philip Walbaum, provided an outstanding service for patients from south-east Scotland and further afield. At first they focused on surgery for tuberculosis and cancer of the lung and gullet, but later Logan gained an international reputation for developing an operation (transventricular mitral valvotomy) to correct the damage inflicted on the mitral heart valve during rheumatic fever. Following the introduction of the heart bypass machine, Logan also began to carry out open heart surgery. He carried out the world's second lung transplant. On his retirement in 1972, he left Edinburgh and joined Ben Le Roux in Durban, South Africa, where he taught for more than a decade. He was president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Scottish Thoracic Society. He was an honorary fellow of the American Thoracic Society. In 1974 he was awarded an honorary DSc by St Andrews. Outside medicine, he was interested in literature and language, the arts and the Scottish countryside. During the Second World War, he met and married Jo Littlewood. She predeceased him in 1980. He died on 9 September 2005, aged 98, and was survived by his two daughters, his son (who is also a surgeon), his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Parish, Christopher (1917 - 2014)

2024-05-20T01:45:41Z

by Rod Parkinson
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2015-08-07
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Christopher Parish was the first cardiothoracic surgeon at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge. He was born in Withington, Manchester, the second of four children, and the only son, of Rachel and Reuben Parish. He attended Manchester Central High School and then the University of Manchester, where he gained a BSc before his completing medical studies, qualifying in 1940. In 1941 he joined the RAMC as a medical specialist, marrying Joan Dorothy Bell immediately before starting his duties overseas. He served in the 8th Army in the north African desert and then moved on to the landings at Salerno and Anzio in Italy. After the war, he held a number of positions at Manchester Royal Infirmary, gaining his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1948. In 1950 he was appointed as a consultant thoracic surgeon in Manchester. In 1952 he moved to Cambridge when he was appointed, initially as a thoracic surgeon, to the United Cambridge Hospitals and East Anglian Regional Hospital Board, the launch pad for his pioneering work at Papworth. He also lectured in thoracic surgery at the University of Cambridge and was appointed postgraduate dean for the University's school of clinical medicine and regional director for postgraduate medical education. In the early 1950s tuberculosis had largely been brought under control: Papworth was seeing fewer cases of TB while the number of cardiac patients on the waiting list was increasing. Parish was instrumental in establishing a specialist cardiothoracic surgery unit at Papworth. He convinced the Regional Health Authority that cardiac surgery required specialist support staff and clinicians, and Ben Milstein was recruited to develop open heart surgery at the hospital. Other cardiothoracic surgeons soon joined the team, eventually leading to the UK's first successful heart transplant and the world's first heart-lung-liver transplant. Papworth is today the UK's largest specialist cardiothoracic hospital. In 1968 Parish was elected as a fellow of Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, initially as director of studies in medicine and later as keeper of the muniments and co-editor of the College *annual*. Outside medicine, Parish was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and president of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and the Cambridgeshire Records Society. He took a lively interest in the community around his home and wrote up the history of the village of Boxworth. Parish was an active supporter of the Royal British Legion and was president of the Elsworth and district branch, before its merger with the Swavesey branch. During his leisure time, Parish enjoyed fly fishing for salmon and trout. Predeceased by his wife in 2009, Christopher Parish died on his 97th birthday in 2014. They had no children.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, John Stuart (1932 - 2016)

2024-05-20T01:45:41Z

by Ian Bailey
Publication Date 2017-03-16 2017-03-23
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon General surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details John Stuart Bailey (or 'JCB') was a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon in Leicester. He was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, and spent his early years in Cairo, before being evacuated in 1940 to Durban and on to England. He was educated at Sherborne School, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and St Mary's Hospital Medical School. After house jobs, he started National Service and converted to a short service commission with the RAMC. He saw active service during the Brunei Revolt as a surgeon in a Far East field surgical team. On his return to the UK from Singapore, he worked as a general surgeon, before joining Charles Drew at St George's Hospital as a thoracic registrar. He subsequently spent 11 years as a registrar and then a senior registrar in thoracic and cardiac surgery at Westminster Hospital. During this time, he spent a year (from 1970 to 1971) at Toronto General Hospital working with W G Bigelow. Finding a consultant post in the mid 1970's was difficult and required resilience, JSB finally escaped London for Leicester in 1977. He enjoyed a happy and successful career until his retirement in 1995. JSB was part of a major transition generation in cardiac surgery. Beyond the early pioneers, he and his generation established safe and routine cardiac surgery. An early medical manager, he strove to understand the true costs of NHS care and pushed for honest, open and comprehensive reporting of outcomes. He was prepared to tackle controversy. On one occasion, he challenged coronary surgery in those who continued to smoke, provoking an aggressive public debate ('Coronary bypass surgery should not be offered to smokers' *BMJ* 1993 306 1047). He believed fervently in the NHS and social model of health care. He did not like the effect 'for profit' health care had on services and some surgeons. His beliefs and principles sometimes put him at loggerheads with parts of the surgical community. He reminded me, as a trainee general surgeon, when I was struggling with confidence after an unpleasant session with a trainer, not to become an egotistical, self-congratulatory surgeon. 'Remember' he said, '…it is the patients who are being brave!' He was president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland, and president of the Society of Clinical Perfusion Scientists, having helped the perfusionists establish a professional structure. JSB was made an honorary fellow of the Polish College of Surgeons in 1987. In 1992, he received further recognition for his work with Polish cardiac surgeons, with an award from the Bruckner Foundation. He and his wife had many happy visits to Poland and made many friends. Retirement did not create a void. He announced within weeks that he did not understand how he ever had time to go to work! Golf, genealogy, an amazing photographic record of butterfly life cycles, travel, community, friends and a growing extended family filled a healthy and happy retirement which lasted more than 20 years. John Stuart Bailey died suddenly, at home, on 18 September 2016, just short of his 83rd birthday. He was survived by his wife of 58 years, Alison, three children and 10 grandchildren. His ashes will be scattered in Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, his beloved holiday retreat of 44 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Roger Abbey (1916 - 2016)

2024-05-20T01:45:41Z

by Paddy Matthews
Publication Date 2017-03-16 2017-03-23
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Roger Abbey Smith was a consultant surgeon at Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry. He was born in Birkenhead. At the age of 11 he was deeply affected by the early death of his mother from psittacosis pneumonia caught from the family parrot, despite being attended by Henry Cohen, arguably the most celebrated physician of the 20th century. His father never remarried and, having three brothers, Roger was brought up in an entirely male household. He attended Birkenhead School, and went on to study medicine at Liverpool School of Medicine, winning the A C Rich prize in medicine and the gold medal for obstetrics and gynaecology. His mother's death set him on course for a medical career, with a focus on pulmonary disease. He qualified in 1940 and, after becoming a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1943, enlisted in the RAMC. He saw active service first on D-day aboard the hospital ship *Batavia* and then in Burma. He was subsequently posted to the Augusta Victoria Hospital - a 1,200 bed hospital - in Jerusalem, which had been requisitioned as the 16th British General Hospital. This was where his interest in thoracic surgery began under George Qvist, later consultant surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, and Lloyd Rusby, later chest physician at the London Hospital. After demobilisation and a spell at St Wulstan's Hospital, Malvern, a large TB sanatorium, he left for a year in Sri Lanka under the Colombo Plan, sailing there and back with his wife Teddie and three children. On his return in 1953, he was appointed as a consultant thoracic surgeon to the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board, based at the King Edward VII Memorial Sanatorium at Hertford Hill, near Warwick. In the late 1960's, the chest unit moved to the new Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry, where Roger remained for the rest of his professional career, holding satellite clinics in Worcester (with Stan Kalinowski) and at Burton upon Trent. Over time his principal clinical interests were TB, oesophageal and lung cancer surgery. Roger was the editor of *Thorax* from 1970 to 1976, and co-editor with R E Smith of *Surgery of the oesophagus: the Coventry Conference: proceedings of a conference held at the Postgraduate Medical Centre, Coventry, on 14th and 15th July, 1971* (London, Butterworths) in 1972. With J Leigh Collis and D B Clarke, he co-edited the 4th edition of *d'Abreu's practice of cardiothoracic surgery* (London, Edward Arnold) in 1976. During his career, he wrote over 25 articles in eight different journals, and contributed to five international textbooks. In 1974, he was elected president of the Thoracic Society, and in 1976 president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery. From 1975 to 1979 he was an adviser in cardiothoracic surgery to the Department of Health under the chief medical officer, Sir Henry Yellowlees. Roger travelled, operated and lectured abroad, mainly in Spain, the Benelux countries and America, including the Mayo Clinic, and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was an honorary member of many international thoracic associations. Roger took a keen interest in the careers of his junior staff, but, I am told, terrified the theatre staff, demanding nothing but the very highest standards. He retired in 1979 to rural Herefordshire. He was an enthusiastic gardener, a keen ornithologist - particularly knowledgeable on birds of prey - and enjoyed salmon fishing and shooting. He holidayed every year with his family in the hills above Harlech in north Wales, the childhood home of his mother. He died peacefully on 24 July 2016, having lived in his own home until the last fortnight of his life, three weeks short of his 100th birthday. He was survived by Teddie, his wife of 73 years, his four children, 12 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Paul, Arthur Terence Sahanandan (1915 - 2008)

2024-05-20T01:45:41Z

by John Blandy
Publication Date 2012-02-17 2014-03-28
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Arthur Terence Sahanandan ('A T S') Paul was a pioneering cardiothoracic surgeon in Sri Lanka. He was born on 5 September 1915 in Colombo, in what was then Ceylon, into a distinguished Tamil family. His father, Samuel Chelliah Paul, was a senior surgeon at the General Hospital, Colombo, and the first Sri Lankan to obtain the FRCS England in 1901 by examination. His mother was Dora Eleanor née Asarappa. Both his paternal and maternal grandfathers were doctors, and A T S' elder brother, Milroy Paul, was the first professor of surgery at the University of Ceylon in Colombo. A T S was educated at the Royal College, Colombo, and then went on to University College Colombo and Ceylon Medical College. He graduated in 1940 with first class honours and three distinctions. In the same year he won a prize for a drawing of Rabindranath Tagore, built both a boat and a model aeroplane, and captained the cricket team in which he was the star bowler. From 1941 to 1946, he was a captain in the Ceylon Medical Corps, attached to the 132 Command General Hospital and then to the Ceylon Light Infantry at China Bay Trincomalee. He was a demonstrator in anatomy at the University of Colombo in 1946. He then went to London, to King's College Hospital Medical School, where he worked under Sir Cecil Wakeley and E G Muir, and then the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith. In 1966 he was trained by Charles A Hufnagel at Georgetown University, USA, in cardio-pulmonary bypass techniques used in open heart surgery. In 1950, he was appointed as a surgeon to the thoracic unit, General Hospital in Colombo, the first such unit established in Ceylon, retiring in 1975. When he began work at the General Hospital there was a high incidence of tuberculosis and rheumatic heart disease, and over the course of his career he saw a remarkable development in the specialty. For many years the Colombo unit was the only cardiothoracic unit on the island, so he organised annual visits to the north, taking his entire nursing and surgical team with him. He also trained several generations of cardiothoracic surgeons, who eventually set up new units throughout Sri Lanka. From 1975 to 1980, he was a senior lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and a consultant surgeon at Kenyatta National Hospital, setting up the first cardiac surgery unit in Nairobi. He was Hunterian professor of our college in 1966. Among his many publications, he wrote a self-published autobiography, *My trek to the heart: a cardiac surgeon's story of adventure and endeavour between 1920 and 1980* (Colombo, 2002). He continued to be involved in sport, playing cricket into his ninth decade, and becoming a member of motor yacht and power boat clubs. He painted in pastels and oils, and created model aircraft. In 1946 he married Marie Baptista, whom he had met while she was serving in the Indian Army Nursing Service at Trincomalee. His son, Surendramohan Chandpal Paul is a surgeon at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon. A T S Paul died on 28 April 2008 in the National Hospital, Sri Lanka, formerly the General Hospital, following a short illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Ebert, Paul Allen (1932 - 2009)

2024-05-20T01:45:41Z

by Denton A Cooley
Publication Date 2014-02-24 2014-03-28
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Paul Allen Ebert was an American thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon. He is best known for his contributions to the repair of complex cardiac anomalies in infants and for his directorship of the American College of Surgeons. He is also remembered as a researcher, educator and athlete. Paul Ebert was born in Columbus, Ohio, on 11 August 1932. He attended Ohio State University in Columbus, where he became a widely recognised student athlete, excelling at both baseball and basketball. He was recruited to play professional baseball for the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates, but declined their offers in order to pursue a medical career. After earning his medical degree from Ohio State University in 1958, Ebert completed his surgery internship and residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital under the direction of Alfred Blalock. Ebert spent two years as a senior assistant surgeon at the National Heart Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and then went on to become a professor of surgery at Duke University Medical Center. Later he served as chairman of the department of surgery at Cornell University Medical College (from 1971 to 1975) in New York City and then as chairman of the department of surgery at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF) (from 1975 to 1986). While at UCSF, he contributed many advances to the field of cardiovascular surgery, specifically pertaining to the primary surgical repair of complex cardiac anomalies in infants. In particular, he introduced clinical methods that greatly enhanced the survival of patients with truncus arteriosus and that enabled neonates with transposition of the great arteries to undergo the arterial switch operation. In 1986, Ebert left clinical practice to become executive director of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. With him at the helm, the ACS expanded its member services, established an extensive managed-care educational programme, and maintained a strong lobby in Congress on behalf of patient choice. He also organised the construction of a new building to serve as a permanent home for the college. This building also houses the administrative offices of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Society for Vascular Surgery, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and other professional organisations. Ebert was a member of many surgical societies and served as president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Society of University Surgeons and the Western Thoracic Surgical Association, among others. He was also a member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars and was vice chair of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery (from 1987 to 1989). He wrote or co-authored 198 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He was also a popular and gifted surgical educator. In retirement, Ebert enjoyed golfing with the Senior Cardiovascular Surgical Society, a small group of surgical educators from major US medical institutions who met to play golf and exchange surgical experiences. In 1989, he received the Theodore Roosevelt award, the National Collegiate Athletic Association's highest honour, which is given to varsity athletes who have achieved high recognition in their adult lives. On 20 April 2009, Paul Ebert died of a heart attack sustained while playing golf. He was 76. He was survived by Louise Joyce (née Parks), his wife of 55 years, and by their three children (Leslie, Mike and Julie) and five grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Borst, Hans Georg (1927 - 2022)

2024-05-20T01:45:41Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2022-10-13
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Occupation Cardiovascular surgeon Thoracic surgeon Cardiac surgeon Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details Hans Georg Borst, head of the division of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery at Hannover Medical School, Germany was an internationally renowned cardiovascular surgeon who made major contributions to the surgical treatment of aortic aneurysm and aortic dissections, and to the development of cardiac transplantation. He was born on 17 October 1927 in Munich, the son of Max Borst, the influential chairman of pathology at Munich University, and Margarete Borst. Borst attended school in Munich until early 1945, when he joined the Luftwaffe and subsequently spent six months in a British prisoner of war camp. On his return home, he finished his schooling, taking his final examinations (abitur) at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria in 1947. He then worked as a labourer on a construction site for six months, a prerequisite for matriculation at the faculty of medicine, Munich University. After finishing his pre-clinical training in Munich, he transferred to Harvard Medical School in 1950, entering the second-year class and graduating in 1953. He was an intern in Emile Holman’s department of surgery at Stanford Hospital in San Francisco and then, from 1954 to 1956, a fellow in the department of physiology at Harvard School of Public Health, working with James L Whittenberger, Stanley Sarnoff, Erik Berglund and Jeremiah ‘Jere’ Mead. Here he produced seven papers on the developing fields of invasive cardiology and cardiac surgery. In late 1956 he returned to Germany and joined Rudolf Zenker at Marburg University. He applied his knowledge of the pathophysiology of extracorporeal circulation and was responsible for setting up extracorporeal circulation for the first open-heart procedures performed in Germany. His research resulted in two experimental papers on the combined use of the heart lung machine and moderate as well as deep hypothermia. In 1958 he moved to Munich University, following Zenker, who had been appointed chair of surgery, and completed his general surgical as well as thoracic and cardiovascular residencies there. In 1962 Borst presented his dozenten thesis on ‘The combination of extracorporeal circulation and hypothermia’, which was honoured with the von Langenbeck prize by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie (the Germany Society for Surgery). While completing his residences, his interest was focused on thoracic aortic aneurysm. In 1963 he was the first surgeon to operate on the aortic arch in deep hypothermia and circulatory arrest. His laboratory work at that time dealt with myocardial blood flow during assisted circulation and induced ventricular fibrillation. In April 1968 he was appointed chairman of the department of surgery at the newly founded medical school of Hannover, and in 1971 he became head of the division of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery there. During the succeeding years, Borst and his department focused on several research topics, including: the consequences of temporary coronary occlusion; the effect of collateral blood flow in conjunction with cardioplegia; coronary and cerebral air embolism; the use of fibrin adhesive in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery; studies of the spinal cord during aortic cross clamping; and the preservation of the heart and lung in conjunction with transplantation. At Hannover he developed a large-scale operative programme in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. Aside from the by then conventional surgery for valve and coronary heart disease, he and his department published extensively on: oesophagectomy for carcinoma of the oesophagus; thoracic aneurysms, especially new technologies in arch surgery; total correction of congenital anomalies in infancy; antiarrhythmic surgery; and clinical heart, heart lung and lung transplantation. In 1983 he and his colleagues introduced the ‘elephant trunk’ technique, a surgical aortic replacement for patients suffering from extensive aortic diseases. The technique helped to reduced complications during the repair of aortic aneurysms by performing a staged procedure. He was a founding member of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Thorax-, Herz- und Gefäßchirurgie (the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery) and cofounded the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS). The EACTS Hans G Borst award for thoracic aortic surgery is named in his honour. From 1978 to 1987 he was editor of *Thoraxchirurgie*. Under his leadership the journal was renamed *The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon*, was published in English and expanded to include cardiac surgery. In 1987 he was appointed as the founder editor of *The European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery*, the official journal of EACTS. He wrote more than 400 peer-reviewed papers and contributed to nearly 50 books. He was a member of many international associations and societies, including the British Cardiac Society, the Cardiothoracic Society (Pete’s Club, London), the Sociedad de Cardiocirujanos, Spain, the Société de Chirurgie Thoracique et Cardio-Vasculaire de Langue Française, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the American Surgical Association, the International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery and the International Society for Heart Transplantation. In 1987 he received the Erich Lexer prize of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie for his work on cardiac transplantation. He became an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1989. Borst was married to Petra Angelika. They had four children – Mathias, Verena, Stefanie and Valerie – and nine grandchildren. Borst died on 8 September 2022. He was 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Mehta, Meherji Phiroze Mancherji (1917 - 1983)

2024-05-20T01:45:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Meherji Mehta was born on 5 April 1917 at Navsari and went to school at Elphinstone and Xavier's College before entering the Grant Medical College and JJ Hospital in Bombay where he qualified in 1939. He took his master's degree in surgery from Bombay University in October 1942 securing a distinction. He joined the Indian Army Medical Service and was promoted to the rank of surgeon on a regular commission but resigned in 1948. He continued his surgical training and developed a particular interest in thoracic surgery at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. After passing the FRCS examination in 1951 he returned to India and joined the faculty at the Parsee General Hospital before his appointment to the staff at Grant Medical College and JJ Hospital. In 1960 he was promoted to Professor in the department of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery where he became a pioneer in open heart surgery. He was the first surgeon in India to use biological heart valves and in 1974 he performed the first successful coronary artery by-pass. In 1973 he also accepted the additional post of senior surgeon at the Jaslok Hospital until his retirement in 1975. Dr Mehta was a very popular teacher and colleague and an inspiration to many young surgeons in training. He was a Fellow of the International College of Angiology, member of the International Federation of Surgeons and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons of Great Britain. In 1973 he was elected President of the Association of Surgeons of India. He died on 7 July 1983.
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First Title value, for Searching Monk, Ian Maxim (1916 - 1978)

2024-05-20T01:45:41Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Ian Maxim Monk was the son of a musician who had been director of violin studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. After education at Sydney Church of England Grammar School he graduated from Sydney University in 1940. He was resident medical officer at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, and then served in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps during the second world war. He was demobilized as a surgical specialist with the rank of Major and took the Sydney mastership in surgery. He foresaw the need for thoracic surgeons in Australia and began his training with John Haywood at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He received the Gordon Craig and Nuffield Travelling Fellowship which enabled him to come to England where he was appointed RSO at the Brompton Hospital in 1947 and came under the influence of Russell (later Lord) Brock. He took the FRCS in the following year and returned to Sydney in 1950 when he was appointed thoracic surgeon to the Royal North Shore Hospital. Having embarked on thoracic surgery before the beginnings of open cardiac surgery Ian Monk, like many of his generation, had to learn things the hard way and grow with the specialty. He undertook animal work at the Veterinary School in Prospect, New South Wales, and made frequent visits to cardiac centres abroad to return home with much information. He was a regular contributor at meetings of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and wrote a number of papers which were characterised by commonsense and sound judgement. He was warden of the clinical school at Royal North Shore Hospital and was dedicated to student teaching. In November 1976 he became the third President of the Asian Pacific Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons. There is no record of the date of his marriage to his wife Judith, by whom he had three daughters. He had inherited a love of music from his father and was an accomplished pianist. He was keen on sailing and was also an enthusiastic skier. After an earlier myocardial infarction he died suddenly on 31 July 1978, on his skis, while waiting for a chair lift in the Snowy Mountains, and was survived by his wife and daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Macarthur, Angus MacLeod (1921 - 2012)

2024-05-20T01:45:41Z

by John Keates
Publication Date 2012-12-21 2014-01-22
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Angus Macarthur was a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at King's College Hospital, London. His life and career spanned vast changes in everyday life, the delivery of healthcare and the practice of surgery. He was born in Southampton on 3 January 1921. His father, Murdoch Macleod Macarthur, was brought up on Lewis in a seafaring community. He went to Glasgow and studied medicine for a year, but left to study marine engineering. He married Marion MacLeod Wyper, a staff nurse from Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. Angus' older brother, Alastair, was born in 1917 and, after studying medicine at St Mary's in London, became a GP on the south coast. In 1923 the family emigrated to Southern Rhodesia to seek a more settled home life. Young Angus nearly did not complete the journey: he was scrambling halfway through an external porthole when his seven-year-old brother pulled him back. On reaching Southern Rhodesia, Angus attended Salisbury Catholic School. In 1929 his mother, who was much troubled with malaria, returned to England with the boys. Between 1930 and 1934 they attended Belmont School in Streatham, London, before returning to Southern Rhodesia. From 1934 to 1937, Angus attended the Prince Edward School in Salisbury, where he passed the matriculation exam. He returned to London and took his first MB exam at King's College. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Angus volunteered for the Royal Navy, but was told to complete his medical training. He initially went to Glasgow, but then joined King's College Hospital during the Blitz. He passed the conjoint examination in 1943 and served for six months at King's College Hospital as a house surgeon to Rear-Admiral Cecil Wakeley, whose surgical career extended back to the First World War. Angus then enrolled in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR), serving two years as a surgeon lieutenant in a convoy destroyer, which included duties on the North Sea convoys to Russia. On one occasion he attended a seaman in a merchant ship who had caught his arm in a winch. The destroyer drew alongside, and he and his sick berth attendant were transferred by whaler across to the merchant ship, which was continuing in convoy. He anaesthetised the unfortunate seaman, amputated his arm, transfused one pint of blood and transferred him back to the destroyer, where the seaman continued his recovery. Angus was demobilised in 1946 and took his MB BS immediately. He continued his house appointments with six months of orthopaedic surgery, followed by a position as a registrar at the regional thoracic surgery unit, both at Horton Hospital in Epsom. This was a large wartime Emergency Medical Service hospital using the site of a London County asylum. In February 1948 he was appointed as a senior registrar at the Postgraduate Medical School of London at Hammersmith Hospital. He recalled his most influential trainers being Norman Barrett, Russell (Later Lord) Brock and Sir Clement Price Thomas. In January 1950, he was appointed as a consultant thoracic surgeon to the regional unit, south west region, based at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton. From 1950 to 1952 he held the Dorothy Temple Cross travelling scholarship from the Medical Research Council to attend the cardiothoracic unit at Ann Arbor Hospital in Michigan, USA, and other leading American cardiac centres. Back at home, he sometimes travelled widely to incidents of major trauma. On one occasion he was summoned from St Helier Hospital to Eastbourne, some 40 miles away, following a railway accident. A steam train had run into another train at the station and one passenger had suffered a crushing injury with a left haemothorax, rupture of the diaphragm and avulsion of the spleen, which was floating in the chest cavity. The patient recovered following prompt control of the bleeding and a massive blood transfusion. In 1953 he was invited to Waterford, Ireland, for three months to start thoracic surgery in a new hospital. Routine thoracic surgery in those days often involved dealing with complications of longstanding tuberculosis. His first case as a consultant was one such example. A patient with a calcified tuberculous empyema developed massive haemoptysis. An emergency right pleuropneumonectomy was performed. The patient recovered and wrote to Angus two weeks later whilst convalescing in hospital expressing gratitude, not only for his recovery but also for the calm manner in which the operation was explained to him. Angus' work as a peripatetic thoracic surgeon to the south west region continued until 1962, when he was appointed as a consultant thoracic surgeon to King's College Hospital to join Bill Cleland, who had taken part in the first studies of cardiopulmonary bypass at the Hammersmith Hospital in the 1950s. Angus noted in his application that he had experience in all branches of thoracic surgery excepting cardiopulmonary bypass. At that time open cardiothoracic operations at King's consisted mainly of procedures to correct atrial-septal defects using profound hypothermia. The operations were performed on Mondays, with post-operative recovery taking place in a small side ward over several days, with a registrar staying in the ward until the patient was stabilised. Initial results were sometimes disappointing but, with the development of a perfusion service, Angus' experience in open heart surgery grew and he took on extra sessions at the Brook Hospital at Shooter's Hill to accommodate an increasing supply of patients from two busy cardiac centres. Naturally he continued with his general thoracic practice, and was much admired for his immaculate and delicate technique, enabling him to perform a transthoracic oesophagectomy, for example, in 90 minutes without any appearance of haste, without blood transfusion and with the patient being able to start mobilising on the following day. In 1971 he led a team which carried out an early lung transplant, in a man with terminal pulmonary failure due to cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis ('Lung transplantation in a patient with fibrosing alveolitis' *BMJ* 1971 3 391). The operation was carried out with the help of extra-corporeal oxygenation and was followed by immune-suppression. There was a dramatic improvement in pulmonary function and the patient mobilised to the point of being discharged. Sadly, however, the patient died suddenly eight weeks after the operation following a severe haemoptysis from a bronchopulmonary fistula secondary to infection. The conclusion was that further operations of this sort must await more sophisticated techniques of immunological suppression and dedicated funding. The increase in workload following the further development of the cardiology services at King's and the large increase in the surgical treatment for coronary artery disease led to the appointment of another full-time cardiothoracic surgeon. In 1979 Angus was invited to assist starting cardio-thoracic surgery in a new unit in Kuwait. At King's in those days all the cardiothoracic operations were still carried out in one small operating theatre with no air conditioning, which opened directly on to another theatre on the main corridors of the original King's College Hospital, built in 1903. Very soon it was working to full capacity, and it was frustrating when managerial constraints were placed on the number of operations undertaken. On one occasion, in 1980, Angus felt obliged to comment in a letter to the *Times* on the serious implications to patients on the waiting list when the number of proposed operations in the last financial quarter were reduced by 75%. Eventually these problems were overcome with new facilities and he continued an active surgical career until his retirement in 1983. Angus was an athletic man who rowed for London University until the onset of the war. He was a lifelong enthusiastic swimmer and enjoyed sailing in Germany before demobilisation. He walked a great deal in Scotland, France and Switzerland. Later he took up long-distance cross country walking, on one occasion walking 100 miles in 48 hours. He was a quiet, private man. In 1947 he married Hilary Claire Parton, also a doctor. They had two children - Janet MacLeod and Duncan MacLeod. After he married he moved with his wife into a new house at Epsom, where they lived for 65 years until his death. Angus and his wife enjoyed the arts and regularly visited central London for concerts and exhibitions. In later life, when he had become house-bound, he took up knitting blankets for charity, which he said satisfied his Scots instinct to re-use old wool and continued to keep his hands busy. He regarded himself as fortunate that, by chance, he was 'taken up' into thoracic surgery 'a specialty not widely practised nor fully understood', for which there was a huge demand due to widespread tuberculous disease and, when this demand reduced with the arrival of chemotherapy, it was replaced with the new challenge of cardiac surgery, which kept him active until his retirement. He wished to be remembered for teaching a series of general surgical registrars, for it was not until later in his career that he was involved in a structured thoracic training programme. Many of these registrars became general surgical consultants and valued their experience in the management of chest trauma, including stab wounds of the heart and oesophagus, which were not uncommon in the local area. Some of them changed course and went on to a career in cardiothoracic surgery. His assistants remember him as a true gentleman, always calm, polite and supportive. As a surgeon he was skilled, unhurried and careful. As a mentor he was greatly valued. He will be remembered with affection by all. He died on 22 October 2012 at the age of 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Macedo, Manuel Machado (1922 - 2000)

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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Manuel Macedo was Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Lisbon and an internationally respected thoracic surgeon. He was born in the Azores in 1922. He studied medicine at the medical school of Lisbon University, and graduated in 1946, after which he spent a year as honorary assistant to Löffler at the University of Zurich, before returning to Lisbon to do junior posts for the next four years. In 1952, he won a British Council scholarship, which took him to England, where he attended a course at the Brompton Hospital, and was taken under the wing of Sir Clement Price Thomas, who arranged for him to work at the Leicester Chest Unit under Gordon Cruickshank and Betty Slesser. During a period when Cruickshank was away in the United States, Macedo seized the opportunity to work with Phillip Allison in Leeds as a locum senior registrar in the absence of Alf Gunning, and visited A L d'Abreu and Jack Collis in Birmingham. At the end of his year in Leicester, he was invited to stay on as a senior house officer, with the actual duties of registrar. He gained considerable practical experience while he was in the UK, and on his return to Portugal in 1954 he passed a new competitive examination to become consultant in thoracic surgery at the City Hospitals in Lisbon. He was appointed in 1956. He began a programme of open heart surgery, eventually establishing two centres in the Lisbon area, becoming director of the department of thoracic surgery in 1969 and Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the New University of Lisbon in 1979, and at the University of Lisbon in 1985. He founded the Portuguese Society of Surgery, and the Portuguese Society of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, of which he was the first President. In 1987, he was President of the Portuguese Medical Association. He kept up his contacts with his colleagues in the UK, and was made the first foreign member of the Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons. In 1986 he was President of the European Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, presiding over the congress in Brighton. He received many national and international honours. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Belgium. He was a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite of France, and in Portugal was appointed a Great Official of the Order of Santiago and the Sword. He was made an honorary FRCS in 1990. He died in 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching Marchand, Paul Edmond (1920 - 2002)

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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Paul Marchand was born in Johannesburg on 19 November 1920. His father, Georges Edmond, was a Swiss watchmaker and jeweller who settled in South Africa in 1912. His mother, Guerra Pardini, was the daughter of Italian parents who had owned a hotel in Johannesburg since 1890. She was born in 1900 during the Boer war when Lord Roberts accepted the surrender of the town, hence her name ('Guerra' means 'war' in Italian). Paul was educated at King Edward VII School and the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, qualifying in 1944. He came to England to specialise in surgery, working first at Newcastle under T A Hindmarsh, and later at Guy's under Russell Brock from 1952 to 1954. He was invited to give the Moynihan lecture in Leeds in 1953, was the Nuffield dominion fellow for South Africa in 1953, and won the Moynihan medal in 1954 and the Jacksonian prize in 1956. He completed his training in cardiothoracic surgery at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. On his return to Johannesburg, he was appointed a consultant at Johannesburg Hospital, where he ultimately became chief of cardiothoracic surgery and head of the department of thoracic surgery. Paul was an associate founder of the College of Medicine of South Africa, and its convenor for cardiothoracic surgery from 1972 to 1993. He was President of the Cardiac Society of South Africa from 1968 to 1970 and Chairman of the Cardio-Thoracic Society from 1968 to 1992. He published more than 70 papers, including pioneer reports of mesothelioma. His career spanned virtually all the important milestones of cardiothoracic surgery, beginning at the stage of pulmonary resections for carcinoma, bronchiectasis etc, progressing through closed to open heart surgery. His first human by-pass operation was performed in 1958, and he carried out more than 1,000 afterwards. He was an avid South African military historian, particularly with regard to the Boer war. He was a keen fly fisherman and owned a trout farm on the Eastern Transvaal escarpment, to which he retired at weekends. A keen gardener, he loved Italian cooking, made his own gnocchi and grew his own artichokes and asparagus. He married Zoe Bisset, a descendant of an 1820 settler family. Her great grandfather General Sir John Bisset became Governor-General of Gibraltar. They had three sons and one daughter, two of whom entered medicine. He died on 9 July 2002.
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