Graham Stack (surgeon)

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Graham Stack
MRCS, FRCS, LRCP
Born
Hugh Graham Stack

(1915-12-07)7 December 1915
Bristol, England
Died28 May 1992(1992-05-28) (aged 76)
NationalityBritish
Education
Medical career
ProfessionSurgeon
Field
Orthopaedic surgery
Institutions
Sub-specialtiesHand surgery

Hugh Graham Stack

orthopaedic surgeon with a specialism in surgery of the hand. He was secretary of the Second Hand Club and was instrumental in the merger of the British hand surgery organisations to become the British Society for Surgery of the Hand
.

Early life and education

Hugh Stack was born in Bristol on 7 December 1915, the third son of Edward H. E. Stack FRCS, an ophthalmic surgeon at the

Bristol University.[2] Three years later he switched career and enrolled at St Bartholemew's Hospital in London, to study medicine.[2]

He married Lorna Cooke

MRCP, in 1955. They had a daughter, Caroline, and a son, Charles, who became an anaesthetist.[2]

Career

Stack first worked as a

North Middlesex Hospital.[2] He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1951 and from then on practised as an orthopaedic surgeon.[2]

He then held appointments at the Miller Hospital and

St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the Albert Dock Orthopaedic and Fracture Hospital, and the Harold Wood and Brentwood District Hospitals.[2] It was while he was at St Bartholomew's that he became interested in reconstructive surgery of the hand in which he was influenced by Jackson Burrows, Osmond Clark, Norman Capener and Guy Pulvertaft.[2]

In 1969, he wrote an influential article which highlighted the importance of naming the fingers (thumb, index, middle, ring, little) rather than numbering them (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), to avoid surgery on the wrong finger.[3][4] In 1973, he was secretary of the Second Hand Club and was instrumental in the merger of the British hand surgery organisations to become the British Society for Surgery of the Hand.[2] He was the first editor of The Hand, the forerunner of the Journal of Hand Surgery. He devised a splint - known as the Stack Splint - for the management of soft tissue mallet fingers.[5]

In 1970, he was elected

Hunterian Professor by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.[2]

Death and legacy

Stack died on 28 May 1992.[2] The Graham Stack travelling fellowship is awarded in his memory.[6]

Selected publications

Articles

Lectures

  • Arris and Gale Lecture: "A Study of Muscle Function in the Fingers", Royal College of Surgeons, 28 May 1963.
  • Hunterian lecture: "The palmar fascia, and the development of deformities and displacemants in Dupuytren's contracture", Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons England. 1971.

Chapters

  • "Tumours" in R. Guy Pulvertaft (Ed.) Clinical Surgery: Volume 7 The Hand. Butterworths, 1966. pp. 208–228.

References

  1. ^ a b "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p410: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Royal College of Surgeons of England (2 October 2015). "Stack, Hugh Graham – Biographical entry – Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 28 October 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  3. ^ Kener & Zeide 2010, p. 19.
  4. ^ Kener & Zeide 2010, p. 127.
  5. PMID 24207001
    . Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  6. ^ The British Society for Surgery of the Hand. "Stack Fellowship". bssh.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

Further reading

Kener, Hillary J.; Zeide, Michael (16 November 2010). Fingerology: The Complete Guide to the Fingers. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse.

ISBN 978-1-4401-6703-4
. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

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