Patrick Forrest
Sir Patrick Forrest FRSE | |
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Born | Mount Vernon, Glasgow, Scotland | 25 March 1923
Died | 7 August 2021 Edinburgh, Scotland | (aged 98)
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of St Andrews |
Employers |
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Awards | Lister Medal (1987) |
Sir Andrew Patrick McEwen Forrest
After qualifying in medicine from the
His achievements in the field of breast cancer earned him the Lister Medal in 1987.
Life
Forrest was born in Lanarkshire and educated at the High School of Dundee.[2] He then studied medicine at the University of St Andrews.[3]
Following military service with the Royal Navy as a medical officer, he spent a year in Rochester, Minnesota as a
He became Chair of Surgery at the
He also served as Chief Scientist to the Scottish
In 1961 Forrest was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as president in 1984.[5] He was elected a member of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1976.[6] In 1983 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club.[7]
He died on 7 August 2021, at the age of 98.[8]
Awards
Forrest received the Umberto Veronesi Award for the Future Fight Against Breast Cancer (2000).[9] In 1987, he received the Lister Medal, "in recognition of his outstanding contribution to surgical science, particularly in the field of breast cancer".[10]
Publications
- Principles and Practice of Surgery
- Breast Cancer: The Decision to Screen (1990)
References
- ISBN 9780946653843. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
- ^ History of the Chair of Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 23 June 2017
- ^ Wikidata Q29581663.
- ^ "Sir Patrick Forrest". The Nuffield Trust. 27 January 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
- ^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
- ^ "Sir Andrew Patrick McEwen Forrest FRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ^ Minute Books of the Aesculapian Club. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
- ^ "Births, marriages and deaths: Friday August 13, 2021". The Times. 13 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- ^ "Prize Winners - IEO Award". Umberto Veronesi Milan Breast Cancer Conference. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ College and Faculty News, Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1987 July; 69(4): supplement: College and Faculty Bulletin, page 3.
External links
- Patrick Forrest on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website
- Portrait of Andrew Patrick McEwen Forrest at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff (Art UK)