Obituaries

Professor Rashad Barsoum (1941-2022) Professor Rashad Barsoum was born in Asyut Governorate in 1941.

Born in Kirkcaldy, he was educated at George Watson’s College and the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB ChB in 1950.

‘I was in prison there’ was Ernest Jellinek’s conversation-stopping contribution, as we were talking about the Isle of Man.

When Irvine Delamore joined the University Department of Clinical Haematology at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, he was following in the footsteps of former illustrious Directors John F Wilkinson and Professor...

Menander’s epigram, “Whom the gods love die young” is sadly true of Jennifer McCaughan, a newly appointed consultant transplant nephrologist at the Belfast City Hospital and director of the Histocompatibility...

Most physicians, looking back on their careers, will reflect that their job was one of lifelong learning and that much of this came from their pathology colleagues.

Bill Larkworthy had two careers in medicine, the first twenty years in the Royal Air Force.

  Dai Rees was born in Silloth, Cumberland but educated in Wales.

  We were sorry to hear of the untimely passing of Professor Dato’ Dr Khalid Yusoff, an esteemed cardiologist and our Regional Adviser for Malaysia, on 5 April 2021....

Dr Jim Waddell was a Consultant Physician in Swindon with responsibility for Acute Medicine and Intensive Care.

  Isobel Hilary Grant (“Hilary”) was born in Edinburgh, the third child of two general practitioners in Carlisle.

Henry Gebbie was born in Darvel in the Ayrshire valleys into a local family who ran a lace manufacturing factory.