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Leeds School Of Medicine
The School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of Leeds, in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The School of Medicine was founded in 1831. The School of Medicine now forms part of the University's Faculty of Medicine and Health. The School is composed of institutes located at multiple sites in West Yorkshire including the Worsley Building, LIGHT, St James's Campus, and Chapel Allerton Hospital. The School of Medicine is primarily linked with two major hospitals for clinical teaching: the Leeds General Infirmary and St James's University Hospital, both run by the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, alongside smaller district NHS Trusts. History On 6 June 1831 six physicians and surgeons set up the Leeds Medical School with the aim: The Medical School admitted its first students in October of that year. It was one of ten provincial medical schools founded in the ten years between 1824–1834. The founders were: *Dr James Williamson *Dr Adam Hunter * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical School
A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, MBChB, MBBCh, BMBS), Master of Medicine (MM, MMed), Doctor of Medicine (MD), or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO). Many medical schools offer additional degrees, such as a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), master's degree (MSc) or other post-secondary education. Medical schools can also carry out medical research and operate teaching hospitals. Around the world, criteria, structure, teaching methodology, and nature of medical programs offered at medical schools vary considerably. Medical schools are often highly competitive, using standardized entrance examinations, as well as grade point averages and leadership roles, to narrow the selection criteria for candidates. In most countries, the study of medicine is completed as an undergraduat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapel Allerton Hospital
Chapel Allerton Hospital is located in the area of Chapel Allerton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England and is operated by the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The main entrance is on Chapeltown Road, with vehicle exits onto Harehills Lane and Newton Road. History The hospital was founded in 1927, to care for injured soldiers from the First World War under the then Ministry of Pensions, replacing a military hospital at Beckett Park. It was opened on 16 May 1927 by Princess Mary. She had been welcomed by the Leeds Lord Mayor Hugh Lupton, whose niece, Anne Lupton, had been appointed a MBE in 1920 for her work on the Leeds War Pensions Committee, advising injured soldiers. The hospital was built in the grounds of Gledhow Grove mansion, and the mansion itself was also used. Gledhow Grove had been the home of both Albert Kitson, Lord Airedale and his first cousin - Frederick James Kitson, Leeds Lord Mayor in 1908 and 1910. Lord and Lady Airedale had owned the nearby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Shiner
Margot Shiner (nee Last; 4 June 1923 – 31 July 1998) was a German-British gastroenterologist and medical researcher who worked in London and Israel. As a result of her development of a new technique to biopsy the small intestine in children, she has been credited with launching the subspecialty of paediatric gastroenterology. Early life Margot Last was born on 4 June 1923 to a Jewish family in Berlin, where her father worked as a textile merchant. In 1936, her family fled Nazi Germany to Prague; they settled in London in 1938. She attended Parliament Hill School and received a medical degree from the University of Leeds in 1947. She married Alex Shiner shortly thereafter, and they had three sons. Career After qualifying as a doctor, Shiner returned to London to work as a house officer. After completing her Diploma in Child Health in 1949, she became a house officer at Great Ormond Street Hospital and was an assistant medical officer in Hendon from 1951 to 1952. Seeking a career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pickles (doctor)
William Norman Pickles (6 March 1885 – 2 March 1969) was a British physician who worked as a general practitioner and was the first president of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1953. He showed the opportunities available to GPs for epidemiological observation in two ''British Medical Journal'' ''(BMJ)'' articles in 1930, on ' catarrhal jaundice' and in 1933, on Bornholm disease. His observations reached a wider audience in his book, '' Epidemiology in Country Practice'' (1939). This contained pioneering work on the incubation periods of common infectious diseases of the time and earned him the reputation of one of the world's leading epidemiologists. He was in practice in Wensleydale for more than 50 years, half of which time he spent recording his observations, thus proving that the rural general practitioner had great opportunities to make observations on disease. Early life Pickles was born in Camp Road, Leeds, on 6 March 1885 to the general practitioner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Mascie-Taylor
Dr. Hugo Mascie-Taylor is a medical doctor and administrator. He has worked as Executive Medical Director of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, including periods acting as Chief Executive and Medical Director at the NHS Confederation. He was one of two trust special administrators appointed to manage Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust in April 2013. In May 2014 he was appointed Medical Director and Executive Director of Patient and Clinical Engagement, for Monitor (NHS). As of 2015, Mascie-Taylor was paid a salary of between £195,000 and £199,999 by Monitor, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time. He is also a board member of Medical Education England and of the UK Revalidation Programme Board of the General Medical Council He was formerly on the Policy Board of NHS Employers NHS Employers is an organisation which acts on behalf of NHS trusts in the National Health Service in England and Wales. It was formed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter McGuffin
Peter McGuffin (born 4 February 1949) is a psychiatrist and geneticist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Early life Peter McGuffin was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 4 February 1949, the eldest of 3 children of Martha Melba (née Burnison) and William Brown McGuffin, a merchant navy officer and Royal Naval reservist. The family moved to the Isle of Wight in 1959 on the appointment of William as a Trinity House Pilot for the Port of Southampton. Education and career summary McGuffin entered Sandown Grammar School, Isle of Wight aged 10 and made an early career choice age 15 that he wanted to become a psychiatrist after coming across Freud's Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, in the local public library at Ryde. He attended medical school at the University of Leeds, where he graduated in 1972 and then received postgraduate training in internal medicine. It was at this stage that he became interested in genetics and had his first publications on immunogenetic aspects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Henry Lewis
David Henry Lewis (1917 – 23 October 2002) was a sailor, adventurer, doctor, and scholar of Polynesian culture. He is best known for his studies on the traditional systems of navigation used by the Pacific Islanders. His studies, published in the book '' We, the Navigators'', made these navigational methods known to a wide audience and helped to inspire a revival of traditional voyaging methods in the South Pacific. Early life Lewis was born in Plymouth, England, and raised in New Zealand and Rarotonga. He was sent to the Polynesian school in Rarotonga, where he apparently developed his appreciation for Polynesian identity and culture. He remained a New Zealander throughout his life, though he eventually retired to Queensland. After an adventurous childhood and teenage years including mountaineering and skiing in New Zealand, and a multi-hundred mile kayak journey, he traveled to England in 1938 for medical training at the University of Leeds, and served in the British ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Leng
Gillian Catherine Leng, Lady Cosford CBE is a British health administrator, academic, visiting professor at King's College London and the former Chief Executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), where she was responsible for several programmes and guidelines including the guidelines on COVID-19. She has been involved in the Cochrane collaboration since its foundation, and has worked on clinical trials and epidemiological research in public health medicine. She also teaches at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. Education Gillian Leng gained her medical degree from the University of Leeds in 1987, having previously gained a degree in physiology. She completed her house jobs at St James's University Hospital and subsequently moved to Scotland to work as a senior house officer in cancer care and in accident and emergency. She received her MD in 1994. Career Leng has been involved in the Cochrane collaboration since its foundation. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubina Gillani
Rubina Gillani is a Pakistani medical doctor and public health specialist from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. She trained as a general practitioner and worked for the Pakistan Air Force for six years. Gillani was the Fred Hollows Foundation's Country Manager in Pakistan since 1998, but left it in 2014. As Country Manager, she did managerial work but still sees herself as a 'field worker'. The Foundation has been working with local blindness prevention agencies in Pakistan since 1997, such as The Pakistan Institute of Community Ophthalmology and the Khyber Eye Foundation. In 1998 Gillani undertook a situational analysis w i to determine the prevalence of blindness in Pakistan. She spoke at The Foundation's IMG meeting in October 2003 in Sydney, Australia on the importance of sustainability and The Foundation's role as a development organisation. In 2006 she met Australian Prime Minister John Howard in Canberra resulting in the Australian Government’s decision to fund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josep Figueras
Josep Figueras Marimont (born in Medinya, 16 September 1963) is a Spanish physician, health policy expert, and health services researcher who serves as the director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. Biography Born in Medinyà, Girona, Spain, Josep was educated at the University of Barcelona where he received his medical degree with honors in 1983, after which he specialized in family medicine in 1987 at the University of Valencia. He proceeded to move to the United Kingdom where he obtained a Master of Public Health from the University of Leeds, and a MSc and Ph.D. (econ) in health planning and financing from the London School of Economics and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, wherefore he worked as a lecturer and MSc course director in Health Services Management and Policy. Professional career He is the Founding Director and Head of the European Centre for Health Policy of the World Health Organization, also known as the European Observ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Farmer
Anne Farmer is emeritus professor of psychiatric nosology at the Institute of Psychiatry and was formerly lead consultant in the Affective Disorders Unit at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the trust's director of medical education. Farmer's focus is on genetic research in affective disorders. Farmer was previously professor of psychiatry at the University of Wales College of Medicine. Education and career Anne Farmer was educated at Folkestone School for Girls and Leeds University. She graduated from Leeds Medical School in 1972 and did her residency training in psychiatry in Leeds and London, UK. In 1980 she worked for 18 months at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, with Drs Lee Robins, John Helzer and Linda Cotler, as a member of the Epidemiological Catchment Area (ECA) study research team. Her doctorate, awarded in 1987, applied novel statistical procedures to the psychopathology of schizophrenia to refine the classification. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
