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continues to work part-time as Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medical Education and Training at the University of Portsmouth and Postgraduate Dean Representative on hospital inspection visits and SpR interview panels. Appointed Consultant Medical Advisor to NHS professionals. Dr Frank Wells (The London): Appointed National Research Ethics Adviser in October 2009 by the NHS National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA).
1962 Dr Geoffrey Clarke (The London): Received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the inaugural Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust Outstanding Achievement awards in 2007.
1963 Mr David Fife (The London): Although retired, still takes an interest in his trainees (chaired the ENT Training Board North and RCS Regional Advisor for five years). Dr Djamchid Lotfi (Barts): Retired as Professor of Neurology at Tehran University, Iran. Now lives in Houston, Texas, where he works at St Jacinto Hospital. He has a daughter and a son, and two grandchildren.
Dr Jacqueline Pitt (The London): Moved to Beccles town after 33 years in the village. Still roams around the UK in motorhome along with the dog or the grandchildren.
1967 Professor Sir Mansel Aylward CB (The London): Chair of Public Health Wales since 2009; knighted in the 2010 Queen’s New Year Honours list for services to health and healthcare. Dr Nigel Grundy-Wheeler (The London): Has published his first work of fiction as an ebook, under the pen name ‘Nigel Wheeler’. “Available on Amazon Kindle for a very modest price, The Girlfriend is a story of love and war, set against a background of my own experiences as an RAMC doctor in locations with which I am familiar, adding a degree of authenticity. There has been a brilliant response from my own year but I should like to reach a wider readership from other years and/or disciplines.” Mr John King (The London): Received an Honorary Fellowship from Queen Mary, University of London in 2010. Dr Roger Porcherot (Barts): Retired as senior partner but continuing as a salaried partner with fewer hours.
Dr Richard Sloan MBE (The London): Awarded an MBE in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to healthcare.
1970 Dr Justin Blake James (Barts): Retired from NHS general practice in 2010 but continues to work in dermatology. Dr Jenifer Copeland (Barts): Practicing GP in Henley-on-Thames; decreased to part-time in 2008. She is married to Steve Copeland (Barts) and has four grandchildren. Dr Anthony John Wright (The London): Country GP who still enjoys some surgery and busy obstetric practice. He is also a keen sailor of a Beneteau 311.
1972 Mr Malcolm Gillard (Barts): Spent 18 years working for the NHS before retiring from Barts in 1991. Worked in a private practice until March 2009 before retiring completely after delivering 3,870 babies. Mr Alan Klidjian (Barts): Retired in 2010 after 25 years as a general and paediatric surgeon, firstly in Birmingham and Solihull, and since 1997 at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton. He now lives in beautiful South Hams at Bigbury-on-Sea.
1964 Professor John Griffin (The London): Edited and contributed to the sixth edition of the Textbook of Pharmaceutical Medicine, published in 2009. Several of the contributors were “Old Londoners” including Professor DW Vere and Dr AP Fletcher. The seventh edition, which he also edited, will be published in June 2013. Dr Alan Johnson (The London): Retired fully at the age of 68 after a career in the Royal Air Force and the Ministry of Defence.
1965 Dr Leslie Dobson (The London): Secretary of a GP health company offering occupational health to GPs in Teeside. JP (Chairman). Mr Nicholas Dudley (Barts): Leads a team of surgeons, physicians and paediatricians each year to Al-Quds University and hospitals in the West Bank to teach Palestinian final year medical students. Professor Bryan Lask (Barts): Emeritus Professor at the University of London and a Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo.
Dr Colin Sykes (Barts): Retired from full-time work in 2003, though occasional locums since. He obtained a BSc (Hons) in Geosciences from the Open University, as well as Fellowship of the Geological Society. Lives in the Lake District.
1968 Dr Anthony Fox (The London): Has enjoyed two successful careers – one with the NHS for and the other, privately.
1969 Dr Robert Brearley (Barts): Retired in 2008. Married (still) to ‘IBM Room’ Sally (Barts, Oncology). Two children at university. Living in the New Forest. Dr Stephen Brennan (Barts): Retired from NGH, Sheffield in 2010. Part-time at Rotherham DGH, South Yorkshire. Still work regularly in Mbarara, Uganda. Dr Ian Crabbe (Barts): The author of Sangreal: Holy Grail, which he handwrote in uncials, printed, bound and published himself in 2010. Do get in touch to receive more details.
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Dr John Laidlow (Barts): Consultant Radiologist in Winchester – still learning new skills. Dr Diana Rees (Barts): Worked as Clinical Director of Critical Care at Whipps Cross for 10 years. Now semi-retired; working two days a week as a Consultant Anaesthetist. Dr Rameet Singh (The London): Retired from Whipps Cross Hospital, where he had been an Anaesthetist, in 2009.
1973 Mr Joseph Cohen (q BDS, The London): Still globetrotting, visiting children and grandchildren in the UK, Europe and the USA. He now does a lot of voluntary work with the theatre and hospitals. Dr Andrew Marsden (The London): Has been working as a solo GP in Kununurra, a very remote town in the far northeast of Western Australia, for the last three years. He also works as a Consultant Occupational Physician to the nearby Argyle Diamond, Savannah Nickel and KMG Iron Ore mines. At the end of 2011, he moved back to Perth, to semi-retirement in a local general practice.
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