Joseph Stoddart
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Joseph Charles Stoddart MD, FRCA, FRCP
Early life and education
Stoddart was born in 1932 in
Career
He had encountered
In 1970, Stoddart was a founding member of the UK Intensive Care Society, and served as their second chairman.[2][8] He was one of the organising committee of the inaugural World Congress on Intensive Care, held in London in 1974, which attracted around 2000 participants.[3][9] He was active in R&D and education in the emerging field.[2][3] In 1975, he published a 200-page book on intensive care, Intensive Therapy (Blackwell), which according to his obituary in The Telegraph, "became essential reading for all entering the field."[2] He also published papers on other topics including respiratory physiology.[3] From the 1970s he gave "Lessons from Intensive Care" at quarterly meetings in Newcastle.[10] In this decade he also collaborated with Douglas Black and others to develop guidelines for recognising brain-stem death, essential for the supply of organs for transplantation,[2] and also served on the working party that revised the earlier recommendations in 1998.[11]
Awards and legacy
Stoddart was acknowledged by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) as "one of the founding fathers" of the intensive care discipline in the UK,[3] as well as among the "key pioneers" in the north of England by the North of England Intensive Care Society.[10] He received the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (2000),[12] and was an elected fellow of FICM (2015)[13] and an honorary life member of the Intensive Care Society.[1]
Personal life
His wife was Sally. They married in 1956 and had four children. Their son Jon Stoddart served as Chief Constable of Durham Constabulary.[2][14]
Stoddart died on 26 October 2019.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d Reynolds & Tansey, p. 142
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Joseph Stoddart, pioneer of intensive care – obituary". The Telegraph. 20 January 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "FICM Fellows by Election 2015" (PDF). Critical Eye (9). Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine: 37. 2016.
- ^ Tony Wildsmith. "Dr Edgar Alexander Pask". Royal College of Anaesthetists. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ Reynolds & Tansey, pp. 54, 142
- ^ Reynolds & Tansey, pp. 53–54
- ^ Reynolds & Tansey, p. 27
- ^ Reynolds & Tansey, pp. 51–52, 142
- ^ Reynolds & Tansey, pp. 25–26, 52
- ^ a b "History of the NEICS/NESA". North of England Intensive Care Society. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ^ "A Code of Practice for the Diagnosis of Brain Stem Death" (PDF). Department of Health. March 1998. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ "The Gold Medal". Royal College of Anaesthetists. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ^ "Fellowship by Election". Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ^ "Durham police chief Jon Stoddart to leave the force after 30 years". The Journal. 30 May 2012. Archived from the original on 16 February 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
Source
- L. A. Reynolds; E. M. Tansey, eds. (2011). History of British Intensive Care, c.1950–c.2000. Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine (Volume 42). ISBN 978 090223 875 6.
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