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Stuart Henry Weir Duncan
June 6, 2025
Callum Michael Chapman
June 6, 2025
Richard Clarke: anaesthetist and medical historian whose graveyard research helped many amateur genealogists trace their family trees
June 2, 2025
Michael Modell: GP, researcher, and teacher who pioneered medical education in primary care in face of academic scepticism
May 29, 2025
Michael Hession: psychiatrist, music lover, and “red rebel from Barts” who organised a protest against poor pay and working conditions
May 28, 2025
Stephen James Collighan
May 28, 2025
Arthur David MacAdam
May 27, 2025
Hugh Malcolm Bristow Busfield
May 27, 2025
Sarfraz Qureshi: gastroenterologist and skilled diagnostician whose keen interest in people made him popular with patients
May 26, 2025
David Michael Rapley
May 23, 2025
John David Hughes
May 23, 2025
Bert Brooker: psychiatrist and polar adventurer who advocated the “British system” of prescribing heroin
May 22, 2025
Alan Jardine: renal physician who rescued Glasgow medical school from the bottom of the league tables and led research into kidney transplant outcomes
May 22, 2025
Paula Salmons: psychiatrist who established eating disorder service in Birmingham and warned against social pressure on women and girls to be thin
May 20, 2025
Mary Lindsay: paediatrician and psychiatrist who championed the right of parents to stay with their children in hospital
May 19, 2025
Rob Sapsford: cardiologist whose generalist knowledge, humour, and calm authority made him “virtually irreplaceable”
May 15, 2025
Lawrence Joseph Wilson
May 14, 2025
Montague Frank Poynton Marshall
May 13, 2025
James Frederick Douglas
May 13, 2025
William John Gillespie
May 12, 2025
John Grayson Grounds
May 9, 2025
Sunil Krishnalal Pandya
May 9, 2025
Hamish Simpson: professor of child health who helped establish the UK as a leader in paediatric respiratory research
May 7, 2025
Sheila Clark: paediatrician and Francophile who accompanied children with disabilities on annual pilgrimages to Lourdes
April 29, 2025
Thambirajah Gunasuntharam
April 28, 2025
Peter Gordon Crow
April 28, 2025
Brian Frederick Bracewell
April 25, 2025
David Dawson Hilton
April 24, 2025
Martin Skirrow: microbiologist who put Campylobacter on the map and by 1990 was The BMJ’s second most cited author
April 22, 2025
Vicky Evans: forensic physician who set the standard of care for treatment of victims of sexual assault
April 17, 2025
Judith Steel: founder of pre-pregnancy clinic whose insights helped women with diabetes give birth to healthy babies
April 15, 2025
Marciano Sánchez Bayle: paediatrician and tireless defender of Spain’s universal healthcare system
April 14, 2025
Richard Ainley Firth
April 10, 2025
Stephen Christopher Jordan
April 10, 2025
Roger Avill
April 9, 2025
John Piers Recordon
April 9, 2025
Susan Stuart
April 9, 2025
Sheila Bhattacharya
April 8, 2025
Rosamond Gruer: rose above convention and sexism to forge a successful career in health services research
April 7, 2025
Roger Elston Sturdy
April 2, 2025
Pierre Christian Ip-Yam
April 2, 2025
Stephen Andrew Cairns
April 1, 2025
John Christopher Howard
April 1, 2025
Coral Sharpe: GP who fought against the prejudices of her day to become a doctor
March 31, 2025
Anne Bayley: surgical oncologist who recognised the spread of AIDS in Zambia among heterosexual patients
March 24, 2025
Ian Bownes: forensic psychiatrist who assessed mental fitness of IRA hunger strikers in the Maze prison
March 21, 2025
David Ian Marshall
March 18, 2025
Jillian Ann Jellicoe
March 18, 2025
Allan Fowler
March 17, 2025
Julia Ruth Hamilton
March 17, 2025
Malcolm Harrington: occupational health expert who advised the government on benefits assessment
March 10, 2025
Malcolm Faulk: forensic psychiatrist whose work bridged the gap between the NHS and prisons
March 7, 2025
John Brand: GP who carried out much cited research into motion sickness after serving in the Royal Navy
March 6, 2025
Ricky Richardson: paediatrician who development of medical records and helped set up charity Whizz Kidz
March 4, 2025
Andrew Oldrey Russell
February 28, 2025
Peter Lyn Hays
February 27, 2025
Geoffrey Robert Thompson
February 27, 2025
Michael King: general surgeon who spent 30 years working in Malawi
February 24, 2025
Ted Buckley: “father of Irish neurosurgery” who trained many specialists at home and abroad
February 20, 2025
Pippa Tyrrell: Manchester’s first ever dedicated stroke physician whose overhaul of the city’s services led to change throughout the UK
February 19, 2025
Tim Crow: psychiatrist whose original thinking on the origins of schizophrenia ended up in the pages of a Sebastian Faulks novel
February 17, 2025
Marie Louise McCrea
February 14, 2025
John Spincer
February 13, 2025
Ronald Martin Oliver
February 13, 2025
Anthony John Webb
February 11, 2025
Imran Ul Haq
February 11, 2025
David Brown: virologist who developed saliva testing for rubella and measles and led the virus reference department for the Health Protection Agency for almost two decades
February 10, 2025
Stephen Edward Barnes
February 6, 2025
Peter Brook Cadogan Fenwick: neuropsychiatrist who explored the limits of human consciousness and became an expert on near death experiences
February 5, 2025
Jillian Van der Knaap
February 5, 2025
Allison John: GP with cystic fibrosis who campaigned on organ donation
February 4, 2025
Alistair George Robert Rennie
February 4, 2025
Michael Howard Jamison
February 3, 2025
John Douglas Orr
February 3, 2025
John Geddes: early pioneer and advocate of rapid pre-hospital defibrillation
January 30, 2025
Tipu Zahed Aziz: resurrected functional neurosurgery in the UK in the face of a sceptical medical establishment
January 24, 2025
Matthew James Young
January 24, 2025
Richard Cash: public health doctor whose salt and sugar solution for cholera patients is estimated to have saved 70 million lives
January 23, 2025
Sanath Kumar Shetty
January 22, 2025
Raymund Michael Shearer
January 21, 2025
Judith Patricia Dawson
January 21, 2025
Mike Snow: infectious diseases specialist who treated the UK’s first HIV patients
January 16, 2025
Rupert Fawdry: obstetrician whose fascination with computerised medical records soon turned to disappointment
January 13, 2025
Tony Boycott: GP and caver whose knowledge of explosives made him an expert rescuer and explorer
January 9, 2025
George Delfas
January 8, 2025
Meena Manickam Mahendra
January 8, 2025
Ruth White: psychiatrist who pioneered the development of perinatal mental health services and had a passion for singing and antique textiles
January 8, 2025
Charles John Edmonds
January 7, 2025
John Howell Rogers
January 7, 2025
Peter Whaley Kershaw
December 20, 2024
Nishi Gupta
December 18, 2024
Leslie Bow Bartlet
December 18, 2024
Dewi Richards Brown
December 17, 2024
Mike Pawson: obstetrician and gynaecologist who reflected on the psychological aspects of fertility and pregnancy
December 12, 2024
John Matheson: GP and bridge champion, who put his success down to a combination of psychology and strategic thinking
December 10, 2024
John Hunter Dagg
December 9, 2024
Martin Sarner: gastroenterologist who explored the link between the gut and brain—and advised London Zoo on a panda with stomach problems
December 6, 2024
Jeremy Bradshaw-Smith: GP who pioneered computerised medical records and is thought to have produced the world’s first printed prescription
December 4, 2024
Francis Conrad Gormley
December 4, 2024
Jacob Kwadwo Afuakwah
December 4, 2024
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