Consultant Plastic Surgeon
- Born 06/02/1941
- First experience of the Acci was with a forearm radial fracture which was treated there in the 1950s
- Graduated from Birmingham Medical School 1964
- Degree M.B.CH.B
- At medical school awarded the Leith Newman Pathology Prize and the Ingleby Scholarship in Paediatrics and Child Health
- House Surgeon and House Physician Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Lecturer in anatomy Birmingham Medical School
- Surgical rotation General Hospital Birmingham and Children’s Hospital Birmingham
- Trauma course at the Acci for the FRCS in 1963
- 1969 FRCS
- Surgical Registrar Burns Unit, Birmingham Accident Hospital worked with Douglas Jackson and Jack Cason providing teaching from their wealth of clinical experience also learnt from Simon Sevitt and from the MRC Unit directed by John Bull
- All of this gave him the opportunity to work with Chris Lawrence on the pathophysiology of the tangential excision of burns in an animal model. This gave him the incentive and structure to undertake continued research into wound healing.
- Surgical Registrar Plastic Surgery, Royal Post-Graduate Medical School, Hammersmith, London
- Research Senior Registrar Plastic Surgery, Wessex Regional Plastic Surgery Centre Salisbury where he received a Wellcome Scholarship
- ChM Birmingham University 1973
- Senior Registrar Plastic Surgery, Welsh Regional Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit, Chepstow
- Locum Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Chepstow
- Locum Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
- Plastic Surgeon, King Faisal Hospital, Riyadh
- Burns Surgeon, Birmingham Accident Hospital. He was appointed on the retirement of Douglas Jackson and he worked with Jack Cason and John Gowar clinically and maintained his MRC attachment
- He was proud to have worked at the Accident Hospital which was internationally renowned with an “espirit de corps” of friendliness from the domestic staff to the senior administrator Peter Millard
- A typical day was a morning greeting from the laboratory staff who always knew his first call was to MRC for a cup of tea and discussion of the bacteriology report produced by Prof Edward Lowbury and his staff from the previous day’s wound swabs which formed a prelude to any ward round or theatre session
- Seasonal variation in burns usually meant acute grafting in winter and reconstruction in the summer
- Conversation between all teams at coffee breaks and at meal times in the consultants dining room and coffee rooms was an essential and invaluable routine and opportunity to learn and improve patient care
- The staff were international, which may explain the reason why when abroad with a meeting badge which read “Birmingham, England” it was more often assumed that you came from the Accident Hospital
- Although clinical and research work was paramount there was a great deal of humour amongst all staff
- The hospital newsletter contained a column by “Scavenger” anonymously submitted and published content told of the real life and fun of working at the hospital
- Staff were so keen to promote the research agenda that one occasion Burns Unit nurses volunteered to be patients for testing an experimental pseudomonas vaccine given by inoculation
- Bon home extended beyond the hospital Tony remembered me being manhandled by junior staff up a narrow staircase to a dining room in the Chinese Quarter in Birmingham in a long leg plaster of paris holding a pair of crutches. Tony remembers many hospital dinners which ended in the doctors “crow’s nest” at the top of the hospital.
- Sadly, resigned his position in 1982 over the proposed dissolution of the hospital with the loss of the MRC Unit.
- He completed his work as a Plastic Surgeon West Midlands Sub-Regional Unit, Nuneaton
- At the Acci worked with Jack Cason who once said of his work “it is all very clear, but I don’t understand it”