Patrick Forrest

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Sir

Patrick Forrest

FRSE
Born(1923-03-25)25 March 1923
Mount Vernon, Glasgow, Scotland
Died7 August 2021(2021-08-07) (aged 98)
Edinburgh, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of St Andrews
Employers
AwardsLister Medal (1987)

Sir Andrew Patrick McEwen Forrest

FRSE (25 March 1923 – 7 August 2021) was a Scottish surgeon.[1]

After qualifying in medicine from the

Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery at Edinburgh
.

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

Mayo Foundation Fellow, then in 1955 obtained a position at the University of Glasgow.[3]

He became Chair of Surgery at the

Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery in 1971,[3] where he eventually became emeritus.[4]

He also served as Chief Scientist to the Scottish

NHS Programme on breast cancer screening.[3]

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

  1. ISBN 9780946653843
    . Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  2. ^ History of the Chair of Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 23 June 2017
  3. ^
    Wikidata Q29581663
    .
  4. ^ "Sir Patrick Forrest". The Nuffield Trust. 27 January 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  5. ^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
  6. ^ "Sir Andrew Patrick McEwen Forrest FRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  7. ^ Minute Books of the Aesculapian Club. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
  8. ^ "Births, marriages and deaths: Friday August 13, 2021". The Times. 13 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  9. ^ "Prize Winners - IEO Award". Umberto Veronesi Milan Breast Cancer Conference. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  10. ^ College and Faculty News, Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1987 July; 69(4): supplement: College and Faculty Bulletin, page 3.

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