Old Oswestrian’s Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital

Old Oswestrian’s Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital The Old Oswestrains is a club for orthopaedic surgeons who trained at Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.

07/07/2023

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Plarr’s Lives of Fellows, Royal College Surgeons of England collection biographies of deceased fellows, a unique record ...
05/07/2023

Plarr’s Lives of Fellows, Royal College Surgeons of England collection biographies of deceased fellows, a unique record of the evolution of surgery from the foundation of the fellowship in 1843 to the present day. As a surgeon you can write a proforma before your death. https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives

Prof Brian O'Connor 1929-99 established the Institute of Orthopaedics at at Oswestry. Born in Brisbane 1929, his father...
05/07/2023

Prof Brian O'Connor 1929-99 established the Institute of Orthopaedics at at Oswestry. Born in Brisbane 1929, his father an engineer. His mother daughter of a ship owner. Educated St Joseph's College, Brisbane, where he was dux 1946, a champion gymnast. At the age of 15, he abandoned his studies to work on a merchant ship, but returned to graduate from the University of Queensland. He did junior jobs in Townsville and then went to Albany, New York, as an assistant resident in orthopaedics under C J Campbell, and the following year to the Karolinska under Sten Friberg. 1957, he went to Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, to work with Sir Herbert Seddon, JIP James, KI Nissen & David Trevor. He supported himself by working as a professional acrobat. Senior house officer at Mount Vernon, learning the principles of plastic surgery. 1959 he took the MCh course at Liverpool and wrote a thesis on pes cavus for the degree. He became senior registrar to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Radcliffe Infirmary 1960, where he took a special interest in injuries involving the chest. 1962 he was seconded to the Sudan as senior lecturer in the University of Khartoum, in order to set up an orthopaedic and trauma service, and as civil war broke out he became adviser to the Sudanese Armed Forces, and established an artificial limb and appliance centre. During three months leave in Australia he took the MCh and FRACS examinations, and in 1965 returned to Oxford as first assistant to Robert Duthie, the Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, with honorary consultant status. In 1968 he was invited to be director of clinical studies at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, where he set about establishing an Institute of Orthopaedics, and in 1978 he became the first Robert Jones Professor of Orthopaedics at Birmingham University. In 1992 he was able to open a new sophisticated theatre complex equipped with ultra-clean air. He retired in 1994 and, he was a collector of military antiques. From Plarr's lives of fellows RCSEng. https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/results?qu=%22RCS:E008825

Prof Robert Roaf. 1913-2007 was a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon and one of the few remaining pre-war Himalayan climb...
29/06/2023

Prof Robert Roaf. 1913-2007 was a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon and one of the few remaining pre-war Himalayan climbers. In 1933 a chance encounter with the mountaineer and writer Marco Pallis was to have a lasting influence on Roaf’s life. Two years later Roaf was delegated to a conference in the Soviet Union and, just before his departure, Pallis invited him to join his next climbing expedition in Sikkim and Tibet. The Himalayan expedition, which included the explorer Freddie Spencer Chapman, was modest, but Roaf, as medical officer, had to learn Tibetan in order to cope with the patients he was invited to treat, many of whom suffered from disorders long since extinct in England. In 1946 he was appointed as an assistant surgeon at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. The following year he moved to the Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. There he developed new methods for treating scoliosis. In 1963 he became professor of orthopaedics in Liverpool. There he encouraged his students to do something adventurous and imaginative during their electives. He continued to make overseas trips, especially to the Himalayas, long after he retired. He published extensively, including Scoliosis (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone, 1966), Spinal deformities (Tunbridge wells, Pitman Medical, 1977), Textbook of orthopaedic nursing (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific, 1971) and The paralysed patient (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific, 1977). Guardian obituary https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/apr/19/guardianobituaries.obituaries

GK Rose (1916 - 1999) Gordon Rose was an orthopaedic surgeon who pioneered the development of walking orthoses (surgical...
23/06/2023

GK Rose (1916 - 1999) Gordon Rose was an orthopaedic surgeon who pioneered the development of walking orthoses (surgical appliances). He was born in Coventry on 28 April 1916, and qualified in medicine at Birmingham in 1940 with the gold medal in surgery. He then joined the RAMC, serving throughout the war in the Middle East, where he came into contact with John Charnley, the pioneer of hip replacement surgery. After the war he did junior surgical jobs in Birmingham, before being appointed as the sole orthopaedic surgeon to Shrewsbury Hospital and to the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry in 1950. He spent a year at Rancho Los Amigos in California, studying the biomechanics of gait, which became his life-work. He applied gait recording to the treatment of club foot, and later developed an orthosis, the 'swivel walker', which enabled children with spina bifida to stand and walk. He pioneered and presided over the Orthotic Training Council. He was appointed OBE in 1981. He was much sought-after as a speaker, and was noted for his prodigious memory for jokes and anecdotes. He was deeply involved in the planning of the new Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, which was opened in 1977. From Plarrs lives of fellows https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/results?qu=%22RCS:E008886%22&rt=falsell

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