St Thomas's Hospital Medical School
St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in
UK. The school was absorbed to form part of GKT School of Medical Education
.
History
It was part of one of the oldest hospitals in London,
King's College London School of Medicine and Dentistry
, but the dentists have since been split out into The Dental Institute.
Name
Unlike the hospital which in recent times dropped the possessive "s", the medical school continued with the original spelling.[5]
Departments
Department of Community Medicine
Notable people
Notable former members of staff
- anatomist best known for his descriptions of the submandibular duct
- William Cheselden (1688-1752) - surgeon and specialist in the removal of bladder stones
- anatomist
- Thomas Wakley (1795-1862) - surgeon and social reformer
- Beulah Bewley (1929-2018) - campaigner for women's opportunities in medicine
- Karen Dunnell (b. 1946) - UK National Statistician
- Doug Altman (1948-2018) - statistician
- Edward Headlam Greenhow (1814-1888) - first lecturer appointed at St Thomas's
- Herbert Barrie, neonatologist
Notable alumni
- beriberiand diet.
- Charles Scott Sherrington (1857 - 1952) - Nobel Prize for Physiology for work on functions of neurons
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939) - Physician, sexual psychologist and social reformer.
- Oguntola Sapara (1861 - 1935) - Medical doctor and activist. Known for Smallpox eradication in Nigeria.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) - Playwright, novelist, short story writer.
- anaesthetist.
- Virologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine for yellow fever
- ophthalmologist who invented intraocular lens
- John B. Harman (1907 - 1995) - president of the Medical Defence Union and chairman of the British National Formulary
- Lasker Prizeknown as the American Nobel.
- David Anderson, 2nd Viscount Waverley (1911 – 1990), British cardiologist and member of the House of Lords
- .
- Sir Bryan Donkin - physician and criminologist
- rheumatologist
- Physician to the Queen and head of the Medical Household
- Dame Cecily Saunders DBE OM (1918-2005) - Nurse, physician and social worker who developed the concept of the hospice and was a pioneer of palliative care.
- Haematologist
- Epidemiologist and public healthphysician
- rheumatologist and consultant, president of the British Association for Rheumatology and of the Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Section of the Royal Society of Medicine
- Mary Baines (1932 - 2020) - palliative care physician
- Foreign Secretary and founder of the Social Democratic Party.
- Elizabeth M. Bryan (1942 - 2008) - Paediatrician and expert on twins.
- Philip Poole-Wilson (1943 - 2009) - cardiologist
- Sir Gordon Duff(b. 1947) - Principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford
- Vicky Clement-Jones (1948 - 1987) - Founder of the British Association for Cancer United Patients.
- Jeffrey Tate (b. 1948) - Conductor
- Gilbert Thompson (physician)(born 1932) - lipidology expert and academic
- Roger Jones (b. 1948) - professor of general practice, and editor of the British Journal of General Practice
- James Colthurst (born 1957), radiologist
- Fiona Wood AM (b. 1958) - Plastic surgeon, Australian of the Year 2005.
- Phil Hammond (b. 1962) - comedian and commentator on health issues
References
- ^ "The Foundation of St Thomas's" (PDF). p. 1.
- ^ "A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain 1066-1999" (PDF). p. 11.
- ^ "Our history".
- ^ "The recent history of Guy's and St Thomas', 1970s to 2000s" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 December 2016.
- PMID 14910157.