The British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) is a registered charity that aims to advance the study and practice of

paediatric surgery Pediatric surgery is a subspecialty of surgery involving the surgery of fetuses, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. History Pediatric surgery arose in the middle of the 1879 century as the surgical care of birth defects requ ...

The organisation

The organisation was founded in 1953. The idea for the group came up when a group of four British surgeons - Denis Browne, Robert Zachary, David Waterston and Peter Rickham - attended a meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics the year before. At the time, there were only a few dozen known paediatric surgeons across the world, so they were all invited to join BAPS.

Founding members

* Denis Browne (surgeon),

Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospit ...

in London *Valentine Swain,

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in Hackney. *JJ Mason Browne, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow *Wallace Denison, RHSC, Glasgow *

Isabella Forshall Isabella Forshall FRCSE (2 October 1900 – 10 August 1989) was an English paediatric surgeon who played a leading role in the development of the speciality of paediatric surgery in the United Kingdom. She took a particular interest in neonat ...

Alder Hey Children's Hospital Alder Hey Children's Hospital is a children's hospital and NHS foundation trust in West Derby, Liverpool, England. It is one of the largest children's hospitals in the United Kingdom, and one of several specialist hospitals within the Liverpool ...

, Liverpool *Peter Paul Rickham, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool * Robert Zachary, Sheffield *Ambrose Jolleys, Manchester *John Scott, Newcastle *David Waterston

Affiliations

BAPS is one of several national paediatric surgical organisations affiliated with the ''Journal of Pediatric Surgery''. The organisation awards the Denis Browne Gold Medal to recognize outstanding achievement in the field. The award is named for

Sir Denis Browne Sir Denis John Wolko Browne (2 April 1892 – 9 January 1967) was the first British surgeon to devote his practice entirely to the care of children. A native of Australia, he served in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps in World War I before ...

, the first president of the association. The first award, given in 1968, went to surgeon Robert Edward Gross.

References

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