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Association Of Surgeons Of Great Britain And Ireland
The Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland is a British medical association founded in 1920 with the twin aims of the ''advancement of the science and art of surgery and the promotion of friendship amongst surgeons''. Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland: About ASGBI - History (Accessed July 2011) Berkeley Moynihan was a driving force behind the association's creation. Presidents Past presidents of the association include: , Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, accessed 6 April 2012 * Baron Ribeiro *Sir |
Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan
Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan LL.D (2 October 1865 – 7 September 1936), known as Sir Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baronet, from 1922 to 1929, was a noted British abdominal surgeon. Early years Moynihan was born in Malta in 1865, the son of Captain Andrew Moynihan, VC. His father died in 1867 and Moynihan moved with his mother to Leeds, Yorkshire. He was educated in Leeds and the Christ's Hospital, Newgate, London (1875–1881). Medical career After two years at the Royal Naval School, Eltham, he returned to Leeds to study medicine at the Leeds School of Medicine. He graduated MB BS at the University of London in 1887 and joined Leeds General Infirmary as house surgeon. He was then successively demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical School (1893–96), assistant surgeon to the infirmary (1896), surgeon from 1906 and consulting surgeon from 1927 until his death. In parallel with his appointment as surgeon, Moynihan was lecturer in surgery from 1896 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro
Bernard Francisco Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro, (born 20 January 1944) is a British surgeon who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 2005 to 2008. He was created a life peer in 2010 and sits in the House of Lords on the Conservative benches.Emma Palmer"Pioneering surgeon is given seat in Lords" Basildon News, ''Brentford Weekly News'', 23 November 2010. Biography Born in 1944 in Achimota in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), Bernard Ribeiro was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and at Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Ribeiro qualified as a doctor at Middlesex Medical School in 1967 and then specialised in surgery, five years later being awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS). From 1979 until his retirement in April 2008, he was consultant general surgeon at Basildon Hospital with a special interest in urology and colorectal surgery, pioneering the use of invasive keyhole surgery, and helping to establish the Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedley Atkins
Sir Hedley John Barnard Atkins (30 December 1905 – 26 November 1983) was the first professor of surgery at Guy's Hospital and President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Royal College of Surgeons. He was the son of Guy's Hospital physician Sir John Atkins and Elizabeth May (née Smith) and was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Oxford. He gained a physiology degree at Oxford and in 1937 was appointed to the staff of Guy's as assistant surgeon, spending all his professional life in that institution. In 1942, during World War II, he went to North Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps, subsequently served in Italy and the UK, was mentioned in despatches and demobilised with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He specialised in the scientific treatment of breast cancer and the Hedley Atkins Breast Unit at New Cross Hospital acknowledges his contribution in the field. He was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1934, and became vice-president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Jefferson
Sir Geoffrey Jefferson (10 April 1886 – 29 January 1961) was a British neurologist and pioneering neurosurgeon. Jefferson was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, the son of surgeon Arthur John Jefferson (1857–1915), and Cecilia James. He was educated in Manchester, England, obtaining his medical degree in 1909. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons two years later. He married in 1914, and moved to Canada. On the outbreak of World War I, he returned to Europe and worked at the Anglo-Russian Hospital in Petrograd, Russia, and then with the Royal Army Medical Corps in France. After the war, he returned to Manchester, working at the Salford Royal Hospital. It was here, in 1925 that Jefferson performed the first successful embolectomy in England. By 1934, he was a neurosurgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, becoming the UK's first professor of neurosurgery at the University of Manchester five years later. The Jefferson fracture, which he was the first to d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Learmonth
Sir James Rögnvald Learmonth (1895–1967) was a Scottish surgeon who made pioneering advances in nerve surgery.Biography of Captain James Rognvald Learmonth The University of Glasgow Story, the University of Glasgow website, accessed 12/02/2011 Early years James Rögnvald Learmonth was born on 23 March 1895 in , , Scotland. He first studied at Girthon School where his father, William Learmonth, was headmaster, later moving to[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Cairns (surgeon)
Sir Hugh William Bell Cairns KBE FRCS (26 June 1896 – 18 July 1952) was an Australian neurosurgeon. For most of his life he lived in England. His concern about despatch rider injuries sparked research which led to increased use of motorcycle helmets. After one of his patients died, who was Lawrence of Arabia, he studied the positive effect the use of motorbike helmets had on reducing the severity of head injuries. Early years and education Hugh Cairns was born in Port Pirie, South Australia, but spent his early childhood in Riverton, South Australia where he received all of his primary school education. He went to Adelaide for his secondary education at Adelaide High School and tertiary education at the University of Adelaide. He was awarded the 1917 South Australian Rhodes Scholarship and went to the University of Oxford to read Medicine. He was president of the Balliol Boat Club and represented Oxford as bow in the Boat Race of 1920. Career Cairns worked as a neurosurgeon a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Page
Major-General Sir Charles Max Page KBE CB DSO (1882–1963) was a British surgeon. He was president of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland in 1946. Page was commissioned lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps Special Reserve in 1910. He reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1918. By 1943 he had reached the rank of major-general and was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1945 for his services during the Second World War. In 1945 he delivered the Bradshaw Lecture to the Royal College of Surgeons The Royal College of Surgeons is an ancient college (a form of corporation) established in England to regulate the activity of surgeons. Derivative organisations survive in many present and former members of the Commonwealth. These organisations a ... on the subject of fracture treatment. References 1882 births 1963 deaths Knights Commande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Frankau
Sir Claude Howard Stanley Frankau CBE DSO FRCS (11 February 1883 – 29 June 1967) was a British surgeon. He was awarded the DSO in 1918, CBE in 1919 and knighted in 1945. Claude Frankau was the younger son of London barrister F. J. "Fritz" Frankau (1855–1933), and thus grandson of Adolph Frankau (1821–1860), a successful importer of smokers' requisites and founder of the pipe Pipe(s), PIPE(S) or piping may refer to: Objects * Pipe (fluid conveyance), a hollow cylinder following certain dimension rules ** Piping, the use of pipes in industry * Smoking pipe ** Tobacco pipe * Half-pipe and quarter pipe, semi-circula ...-manufacturing firm Adolph Frankau & Co.Adolph Frankau & Co. Ltd, ''100 Years in the Service of Smokers 1847-1947'', issued 1947 His second wife was psychiatrist Dr Isabella Robertson. References External links "FRANKAU, Sir Claude (Howard Stanley)" in ''Who Was Who'' A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wilkie (surgeon)
Sir David Percival Dalbreck Wilkie, (5 November 1882 – 28 August 1938), known to friends and colleagues as DPD, was among the first of the new breed of professors of surgery appointed at a relatively young age to develop surgical research and undergraduate teaching. At the University of Edinburgh, he established a surgical research laboratory from which was to emerge a cohort of young surgical researchers destined to become the largest dynasty of surgical professors yet seen in the British Isles. He is widely regarded as the father of British academic surgery. Early life Wilkie was born on 5 November 1882 in Kirriemuir, the second sonWilkie, Sir David Percival Delbreck (1882 - 1938) Royal College of Surgeons of England of David Wilkie, a wealthy jute manufacturer [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan
Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan LL.D (2 October 1865 – 7 September 1936), known as Sir Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baronet, from 1922 to 1929, was a noted British abdominal surgeon. Early years Moynihan was born in Malta in 1865, the son of Captain Andrew Moynihan, VC. His father died in 1867 and Moynihan moved with his mother to Leeds, Yorkshire. He was educated in Leeds and the Christ's Hospital, Newgate, London (1875–1881). Medical career After two years at the Royal Naval School, Eltham, he returned to Leeds to study medicine at the Leeds School of Medicine. He graduated MB BS at the University of London in 1887 and joined Leeds General Infirmary as house surgeon. He was then successively demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical School (1893–96), assistant surgeon to the infirmary (1896), surgeon from 1906 and consulting surgeon from 1927 until his death. In parallel with his appointment as surgeon, Moynihan was lecturer in surgery from 1896 to 1909 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bland-Sutton
Sir John Bland-Sutton, 1st Baronet (21 April 1855 – 20 December 1936), was a British surgeon. Biography He was the son of Enfield Highway farmer Charles William Sutton and was educated at the local school. From there, he entered a private anatomy school run by Thomas Cooke, teaching anatomy to earn money so he could study at the Middlesex Hospital. There, he became a lecturer. He did this job from 1886 to 1896. In 1886, he also became an Assistant Surgeon, specializing in pelvic operations on women. In 1889, he changed his name from John Bland Sutton to John Bland-Sutton. In 1896, he was replaced as Lecturer in Anatomy at Middlesex Hospital by Arthur Robinson. In 1905, he was appointed Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, resigning in 1920 to become Consulting Surgeon. Knighted on 1 July 1912, Bland-Sutton was President of the Royal Society of Medicine between 1920 and 1922 and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1923 to 1925. He delivered the Bradshaw lecture at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin C
Robin may refer to: Animals * Australasian robins, red-breasted songbirds of the family Petroicidae * Many members of the subfamily Saxicolinae (Old World chats), including: **European robin (''Erithacus rubecula'') ** Bush-robin **Forest robin **Magpie-robin ** Scrub-robin **Robin-chat, two bird genera ** Bagobo robin **White-starred robin **White-throated robin ** Blue-fronted robin **Larvivora (6 species) **Myiomela (3 species) * Some red-breasted New-World true thrushes (''Turdus'') of the family Turdidae, including: ** American robin (''T. migratorius'') (so named by 1703) ** Rufous-backed thrush (''T. rufopalliatus'') ** Rufous-collared thrush (''T. rufitorques'') ** Formerly other American thrushes, such as the clay-colored thrush (''T. grayi'') * Pekin robin or Japanese (hill) robin, archaic names for the red-billed leiothrix (''Leiothrix lutea''), red-breasted songbirds * Sea robin, a fish with small "legs" (actually spines) Arts, entertainment, and media Fictiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
