Leeds School of Medicine Spring / Summer 2018

Issue 42

ELLA’S GIFT FOR CANCER RESEARCH

EDTECH SHOWCASE

MEDICS REUNITED: CLASSES OF 1972 AND 1957

MEET THE EXSEL SCHOLARS

MEMORIES OF LEEDS CELEBRATING THE STETHOSCOPE

The invention which has changed the workings of the medical world and to this day inspires debate EDITORIAL

Edited by Professor Trudie Roberts Professor of Medical Education [email protected]

Editorial Board

Deputy Editor Gillian Neild Faculty Head of Communications

Professor Peter Howdle Emeritus Professor of Clinical Medicine

Mr Phil Steel Head of Alumni Relations WELCOME & Annual Giving Professor Laura Stroud FROM THE EDITOR School of Medicine Director of Student Education

A very warm welcome to all our readers the Leeds Institute of Medical Education, Elizabeth Allen and particularly our alumni. This is Level 7 The Worsley Building, University Undergraduate Medical my first edition as editor ofMedicine of Leeds LS2 9JT. Education Coordinator Matters and it is a little daunting to You will notice that we have already made fill the shoes of Prof Peter Grant who has Vicki Harper some changes to the layout. To enable us so ably provided leadership for Clerical Assistant to include more features we have reduced the previous two years. the length of many of the contributions to Medicine Matters is produced I joined the Medical School in April the print and PDF versions. However, we biannually by the Leeds School 2000 as Professor of Medical Education have no intention of losing the importance of Medicine and distributed by and Honorary Consultant Physician at of the in-depth comment we have the University Alumni Office. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and within items like the inaugural lectures. learned a lot about the School by reading Extended versions of these and other Alumni Medicine Matters. Communication with items will be available to view and read The University Alumni Office staff and present and previous graduates on our Medicine Matters online edition would like you to stay in touch is an extremely important aspect of via Medium (https://medium.com/@ so please let them know, via a vibrant medical school. I recognise MedMattersLeeds). Additionally, we have [email protected], of any that our readership has a wide range of enlisted a number of student reporters – changes to your contact details interests and I want to ensure there is medical students who have a particular or if you would like help in something for everybody. With this in interest in writing and interviewing other organising your reunion. You mind I am keen to solicit your feedback. students and Leeds staff, and you will can also visit the Alumni website What do you like? What would you want to read their pieces and also their book at www.alumni.leeds.ac.uk see more of and what perhaps is of less reviews in this and coming editions. interest? If you can spare a moment to let I hope you enjoy reading about the Design me know your views then please email me life of the Medical School both past at [email protected] or write to me at Spiral Communications Limited and present.

2 ISSUE 42 SPRING/SUMMER 2018 OTHER WAYS TO CONTENTS KEEP IN TOUCH IN THIS Are you on Twitter? You can find us@LeedsMedHealth where we share news, views EDITION… and details of events. 18 Medics Reunited: Classes of 1972 and 1957 20 Memories of Leeds from the 1960s

22 Inaugural Lecture: Professor Hermandt Pandit 23 David’s Adventures at Glastonbury 24 Meet the EXSEL Scholars 4 News in Brief 26 Alumni awarded Lambeth Cross for Contribution to Ecumenism 6 Laennec at Leeds: Celebrating the Stethoscope 27 Message From the Dean 8 Book Reviews 9 Ella’s Gift for Cancer Research 10 EdTech in Medicine: Showcase 12 Could You Help With Masterclass Sessions? 13 Teaching Status for St Gemma’s Hospice 14 Professionalism Ceremony 2017 16 Breathing New Life into the Worsley Building

17 Inaugural Lecture: Professor Giles Toogood

MEDICINE MATTERS 3 NEWS IN BRIEF IN NEWS VR SUPPORTS TEACHING

Leeds Institute of Medical Education has signed a partnership agreement with Medical Realities Ltd for the development of Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR and VR) resources designed to support the teaching of medicine and surgery students and trainees. The focus will be on developing resources which will support experiences where access would not normally be available to a medical student, as part of their clinical practice. The partnership will also extend the scope and range of material to other medical and healthcare specialties and areas appropriate to both undergraduates and trainees and evaluate their use in medical education.

BURSARY WINNERS RESEARCH OF THE FUTURE

Extended Student-led The Medical Research Foundation, Research or Evaluation charitable arm of the Medical Research Project (ESREP) students Lara Council, has launched its first ever Jackman and Emmanuel Ago national antimicrobial resistance doctoral (pictured right) won a joint training programme. bursary, and MRes student Leeds is among the participating Naomi Egbivwie also won a universities and will recruit fully-funded bursary at the annual British PhD students to specialise in research in Neuro-oncology Society the field. They will contribute to the drive (BNOS) meeting held during to find new antibiotics or ways to improve June in Edinburgh. diagnoses of infections.

AN EPIC OPENING

In July we celebrated the opening of ePIC – Experimental and Preclinical Imaging Centre – a £6 million facility to study the hearts of mice. Under the leadership of Professor Jurgen Schneider, researchers will develop non-invasive imaging technology to investigate the progress of heart disease in rodents, which will hold important information about treating human heart disease. For the opening, we welcomed Professor Metin Avkiran, Associate Medical Director of the British Heart Foundation, which has generously supported the creation of the centre.

Professor Avkiran (right) with Dr Wulf-Ingo Jung, President, Biospin Preclinical 4 ISSUE 42 SPRING/SUMMER 2018 Imaging Division, Bruker, who supplied the equipment for the centre JAMES’ AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE LAUNCH OF NATIONAL LIFESTYLE SURVEY Dr James Pickering, Associate Professor in Anatomy, has received Researchers from Leeds Institute a Higher Education Academy of Data Analytics, working with National Teaching Fellowship – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS one of the most prestigious awards Trust, have launched a national NEWS IN BRIEF for higher education teaching. survey to see if people would be prepared to allow their lifestyle data James (pictured left) has a to be matched against their health longstanding interest in student records in the future. education forged more than a decade ago when he taught The survey aims to gauge whether anatomy to students during his the public supports such large-scale PhD research. He has since data linkage and analysis and may developed his own teaching herald the start of what could be philosophy of innovating, the biggest investigation ever into integrating and researching the the interaction between lifestyle and use of technology to support health, with scientists saying it could students’ learning. provide important insights into cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP STUNNING PHOTOGRAPHY WINS ONCE AGAIN BENEFITS STUDENTS Researcher, Fraser Macrae, has won the The School of Medicine has renewed a deal British Heart Foundation Reflections of to allow student medics in the city, studying at Research photography competition 2017 for the University of Leeds, to get placements with his image of a heart-shaped red blood cell. specialist teams at Leeds Community Healthcare Under the intense magnification of an NHS Trust during their training. electron microscope, Fraser spotted The Associated Teaching Trust Agreement will now the cell that had become entangled remain in place for the next five years and will means in the net-like fibres of a blood clot, we can offer placements for our medical students in compressing it into the shape of a heart. paediatrics, gynaecology and sexual health. This is the second time Fraser has won this prestigious award.

IMPROVING QUALITY OF INTERNATIONAL AWARD LIFE FOR THE ELDERLY FOR TRUDIE

Researchers led by Dr Andy Clegg, Professor Trudie Roberts has been conferred Senior Lecturer and Honorary as Honorary Doctor of Medical Education Consultant Geriatrician at the from the International Medical University, Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Malaysia (IMU). The award was made to Rehabilitation, and University of recognise Trudie’s significant contribution to the Manchester, in partnership with Age development and growth of IMU, specifically UK, have received £2.7 million of the medical programme in her role on the funding from the National Institute Academic Council since 2005 and as Chair for Health Research. of the Professional Education Advisory This will help to develop and test a Committee since 2013. new type of care which aims to improve the quality of life for older people with frailty by giving them choice and control over decisions about their own health and wellbeing. The new type of care, called personalised care planning, is designed to improve self-management skills and help older people with frailty to improve their wellbeing and thrive with the support of their community. MEDICINE MATTERS 5 LAENNEC ATLAENNEC LEEDS CELEBRATING THE STETHOSCOPE

The stethoscope was invented just over 200 years ago by French physician, René Laennec. Since then it has become the badge of the doctor for the very good reason that it enables them to ‘see’ inside the chest. A series of events and activities have celebrated this invention which has changed the workings of the medical world and to this day inspires debate. In actual fact, when using a stethoscope, the ‘seeing’ is done by listening. The doctor hears the heart beating and the lungs expanding and contracting, and interprets their sounds to come to a diagnosis. Laennec designed a device which was essentially capable of ‘seeing’ inside the body. The University of Leeds has a Laennec pattern stethoscope, one of very few in the world.

Jacalyn Duffin MD, Laennec's biographer, assesses the Leeds Laennec pattern stethoscope 6 ISSUE 42 SPRING/SUMMER 2018 based onpublicbased narratives health around and delivered educational projects theatre Humanities and Cultures devised Arts, of and Cultural Industries within the Faculty of Performance Students from the School by handturn to wood create his models. different approach would who to Laennec involved printing 1,923 layers –quite a 10 astaggering took hours to make and working the original. of models These measurements and recreate 3D-printed Engineering were able to take from the Faculty colleagues of and works, it how stethoscope To more about the understand University. the and from students three Facultiesstaff of thatfor aplethora of involved activities item the was catalyst handcrafted wooden Medicine at the University, this humble, of Science, Technologyof the History and safely rehomedNow in Museum the Leeds other precious items from destruction. building and and the stethoscope saved student, and friends abseiled into the legend has that it Mark Steadman, aPhD of the arrivalAhead of the wrecking balls, intoforstudent refitting accommodation. and earmarked which in 2008 closed was building, in the Algernon Firth housed collection toitem aneglected belonged PhD of some the bravery students. The could have the skip faced were not it for just inrescued the nick time of and identified was and Laennec The Leeds Students performing at the schools’ workshops at the schools’ performing Students downloaded from our website https://goo.gl/Vc3AZh - How doctors learnt to see with their ears be can The brochure, stethoscope the of years 200 Celebrating No spoilersNo here; more read about her agenuinewas otherwise. –or Laennec longstanding of whether question the item examine to model answer the Leeds the During her visit she able was to lecture onher around work Laennec. and seminars and students with apublic Jacalyn conducted a number of talks Laennec’sMD,Jacalyn Duffin biographer. of theOne highlights avisit was from and reviews. great Leeds received across from students schools around 500 they engaged Through their performances the time the stethoscope’s of invention. joined the debate. the joined ground from the traditionalists who gained interesting some stethoscope favour of moving onfrom the of the use to say,of the debate. Needless in those andstatements then at the conclusion asked hearing to vote opening after Audience were members colleagues. of MedicineSchool and NHS clinical which involved from the colleagues the futureon the stethoscope of The landmark event the debate was available online below. box –see our via brochureperspective which is Leeds stethoscope Printing the of 3D models MEDICINE MATTERS 7 LAENNEC AT LEEDS BOOK REVIEWS

In a new column of the magazine, medical students review some of the latest books from the field of medicine. Book reviews – and suggestions for the reading list – are equally welcome. Please use the contact information on page 2.

ADMISSIONS BY HENRY MARSH Review by Francine Cheese Admissions, the second memoir by Marsh, and a title which reflects the very personal musings, as well as poignant case studies, has a clever way of resonating with everyone, layman or healthcare professional alike. Opening with a quote – ‘Medicine is a science of uncertainty, and an art of probability...’ – this book is another candid journey through the science and logistics of brain surgery mixed in with a brutally self-effacing narrative of successes and failures. This book makes for an interesting read. It is refreshing to read the accounts of a doctor so honest with his mistakes, and so aware of his own shortcomings. Read Francine’s review in full via our online edition https://goo.gl/3NJBsb DO NO HARM BY HENRY MARSH Review by Aiknaath Jain “If the operation succeeds the surgeon is a hero, if it fails he is a villain.” Neurosurgeon, philosopher and humanitarian Henry Marsh’s brutally frank but humorous account of his time slaving under the bureaucracy-driven NHS is a unique feat of literary brilliance. One that I thoroughly recommend to both non-medic and medic alike. Do No Harm has a simple but unique premise: What if one neurosurgeon wrote his experiences, thoughts and opinions in an honest accessible format? Why no one has ever written with such truthfulness about this profession is unbeknownst to me and a question that I find myself pondering with animosity routinely. As such, I am filled with an immense sense of gratitude, that Marsh has taken the first step into giving us an unvarnished exploration into the life of not just a doctor but a remarkable individual. Read Aiknaath’s review in full via our online edition https://goo.gl/ApU3K2

8 ISSUE 42 SPRING/SUMMER 2018 ELLA’S GIFT FOR ELLA DICKINSON CANCER RESEARCH Research into a deadly blood cancer is to be boosted by a charitable trust established in memory of a Yorkshire mum who died of the disease.

Ella Dickinson’s family has farmed and research in the University of Leeds the West Yorkshire countryside for laboratories to deepen our understanding generations; their Longley Farm dairy of the disease – and seek out a cure. near Holmfirth was established in 1948 Now a gift of £500,000 will establish and has grown into an international a scholarship programme to enable business. When Ella was being treated outstanding young researchers to join for myeloma at St James’s Hospital in Dr Owen and his colleagues in their fight Leeds, she was determined to give every against the disease. The first Ella Dickinson support she could to finding a cure. scholar is Nicole McDermott from Teesside, Ella died in 2012, and now her husband who has joined the team to study for a Joseph and children Jimmy and Sally have PhD analysing plasma cell cancers. set up the Ella Dickinson Memorial Trust to It was during a placement examining the push forward research into the condition. side-effects of chemotherapy during her Her care was headed by consultant undergraduate studies at the University of Ella Dickinson feeding a lamb on her family’s farm in 1946 haematologist Dr Roger Owen, who York that Nicole first became interested divides his time between frontline in research. She is now part of Dr Owen’s treatments for patients at St James’s team and says: “I wouldn’t have been able to study for a PhD without this scholarship, so I’m really grateful to the Ella Dickinson Memorial Trust for this opportunity. It’s really exciting to know that I will be working towards the end point of helping people to fight disease. Without funding, research like this just wouldn’t get done, our knowledge would stagnate, and the new treatments Joseph and Ella Dickinson wouldn’t develop.” on a cruise in 2006 The Trust’s support for six PhD Scholarships over the coming Dr Owen expressed his thanks to the years extends a connection family: “We are hugely grateful to the between the Dickinson family Dickinsons for their generous support. and the University of Leeds which The scholarship programme will stretches back for generations. contribute significantly to our research efforts in myeloma and related diseases. Through this long-term programme of scholarships we also hope to be able to develop young researchers into future academic leaders.” PhD student Nicole McDermott

MEDICINE MATTERS 9 EDTECH IN MEDICINE: SHOWCASE IN MEDICINE: EDTECH

During 2017 we held a Technology Enhanced Learning Showcase event to highlight how we build the use of new technology into our curriculum.

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10 ISSUE 42 SPRING/SUMMER 2018 to enter the ever-changing workplace. skills professionals, the necessary with and generation the next of healthcare programmes, equipping our students, our undergraduate and postgraduate that into integrates technology the latest to provide isit essential acurriculum our programmes of study. We believe inis present, diverse forms, in of most this field; enhanced technology learning We believe that too are we in leaders equipment far the ubiquitous. beyond but also providing to facilities and access utilising expectations, their smartphones We believe and meet we those exceed their learning. to support technology encounter to expect Today’s students reality. augmented to the virtual use of smartphones, of and daily lives, the ubiquitous from presence over the last decade, permeating our expanded dramatically has technology of age. The availability and sophistication in internet an born were students current It’s that our astartlingof fact most “We believe it is essential to provide acurriculum equipping our students, and the next generation of healthcareof professionals, with necessary the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, programmes, postgraduate and undergraduate that integrates the latest technology into our our into technology latest the integrates that skills to enter the ever-changing workplace.” student experience for the future. and collaborations to help us shape the of more conversations thewas start and innovate the for future. This event onour adapt we can students technology Only by understanding the impact of doesn’t. what importantly, evaluated know we what and works, so learning.support is use measured Its and is avaluablethe of technology use to tool ultrasound from to midwifery; to haptics, our for students the future. From dentistry is about preparingThe of technology use

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EDTECH IN MEDICINE: SHOWCASE MASTERCLASS SESSIONS MASTERCLASS

COULD HELP WITH OUR MASTERCLASS SESSIONS? YOUAre you a recently retired clinician who would like the opportunity to continue to teach tomorrow’s doctors? Are you a doctor who enjoyed teaching and helping undergraduate students become competent clinicians? Then we would like to hear from you.

We recognise that the intensity of the fundamental skills in a relaxed and comfortable with and we will supply the normal working day means that students supportive environment and receive patients, students and refreshments. may not get as much direct observation personalised feedback. We are unable to pay you for these at examining patients or taking focussed We are looking to recruit recently sessions but we can cover travel histories. To help students develop retired clinicians from either a primary expenses. The sessions are run on these essential skills we have introduced or secondary care background who are Friday mornings at St James’s Hospital masterclass teaching. willing to contribute to a session or Clinical Practice Centre. During these Masterclasses small even two sessions per academic term. groups of students can be taught these You can teach whichever areas you feel

If you would like to have a no obligation conversation about getting involved please contact Janet Cassie by 12 ISSUE 42 SPRING/SUMMER 2018 email [email protected] or call 0113 206 7254. ST GEMMA’S

HOSPICE TEACHING STATUS FOR ST GEMMA’S HOSPICE BECOMES FIRST TO ACHIEVE UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPICE STATUS St Gemma’s Hospice in Leeds has become the first formally recognised university teaching hospice in the UK, following the announcement of a strengthened relationship with the University.

The hospice, the largest in Yorkshire, marked its new status at a launch event in September, which has been supported by NHS Health Education England and reflects the long-standing relationship between St Gemma’s and the University of Leeds, providing a stronger platform for teaching and research in the future. The hospice has provided university teaching and training in the form of a postgraduate healthcare course for more than 20 years and works with around 200 medical students per year to develop their skills in this area. The new permanent extended relationship provides increased capacity for Leeds students to study palliative care in practice at St Gemma’s as part of their degrees. The relationship also helps to raise the profile of palliative care research nationally and internationally, ensuring the sector has a continued flow of expert medical and managerial personnel, which is a key feature of the new relationship. Students Dayna Francis and Carolina Franco Da Silva went along to the launch event to interview members of the team at the hospice. You can read more via our online edition https://goo.gl/bhbq1r.

MEDICINE MATTERS 13 PROFESSIONALISM CEREMONY PROFESSIONALISM PROFESSIONALISM CEREMONY 2017

The School of Medicine Professionalism Ceremony for Year 3 MBChB and Physician Associate students took place at The Great Hall in October.

14 ISSUE 42 SPRING/SUMMER 2018 The ceremony is an annual event that provides the opportunity to celebrate the efforts of students in their studies so far and remind them of their professional duties as clinicians. As the students see their peers in other faculties graduate ahead of them, this

ceremony is well timed to offer some PROFESSIONALISM CEREMONY added inspiration and encouragement. The event included keynote speeches from Miss Shireen McKenzie and Professor James Drife and a number of prizes were awarded. This year the University main Instagram featured an image of students gathered outside The Great Hall following the ceremony as its image of the day. The image has received over 1,800 ‘likes’ and numerous comments. There was quite a buzz in the area as passers-by became curious as to what the ceremony was about.

MEDICINE MATTERS 15 WORSLEY REFURB WORSLEY BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO THE WORSLEY BUILDING

The £43m renovation works for the across the Faculty. Full-scale wall graphics, matter how small, has been developed to Worsley Building are nearing completion sculptures, tactile fabrics and creative use become shared space; perch tables, soft and have transformed the interior or of colour have instilled vibrancy within the seating and collaborative pods have been many parts of this iconic 1970s building. grey, concrete building facade. created in unexpected places to enhance the student experience. Collaborative The new collaborative working At its heart, the Pure Café on level meeting spaces, video conferencing environment and dynamic public spaces 9 has been awarded a TUCO (The technology, open-plan offices and multiple that have sprung up are supporting University Caterers Organisation) award breakout spaces have transformed both creativity and innovation, increasing social for innovation and has been successful the working environment and the way in connection and contributing to building a in supporting social and workplace which people work. sense of community for staff and students connections. All available space, no

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300+ 200+ 18 shared seating 28 58 group working shared meeting metres of wall stools with perch pods spaces rooms graphics ledge seating

16 ISSUE 42 SPRING/SUMMER 2018 PROFESSOR GILES TOOGOOD GILES PROFESSOR LECTURE: INAUGURAL CLINIC VIA THE LAB FROM CRICKET TO down in other units. units. other in down turned cancers with dealing often livermajor surgery, been aleader in We have always Europe. in centres one of the largest now is which Unit Transplant and HPB joined avery busy post in 1998. I Consultant my start I arrived in Leeds to funding multicentre a for trial. 3fishtakingoil Omega and now have patients with a patient survival benefit We haveliver recently shown metastases. looking at other ways of treating colorectal Markcollaboration Hull Professor with For Ihave working years some in been the UK live for liver donor surgery. andcases remain the leading centre in that time we have completed over 70 NHS live liver donor transplant and since the field. In 2007 first the performed we lead have we often In transplantation Technology Assessment Assessment Technology awarded £4m a grant We have just been from NIHR Health Health NIHR from Programme

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INAGURAL LECTURE: TOOGOOD MEDICS REUNITED

CLASS OF 1972

45 years since qualification, but 50 since members of the alumni community started at Leeds Medical School as students, the class of 1972 began their reunion by visiting the Thackray Medical Museum. In their day this housed the geriatric wards and many older patients were very reluctant to be MEDICS admitted or transferred there because they could remember that it had previously been the workhouse. In the evening the group enjoyed a reception and dinner at Weetwood Hall Hotel – which in their day was a women’s hall of residence. After REUNITED dinner the entertainment included a series of people talking about their lives in ‘45 years in We really enjoy reading about your 5 minutes’ and toasting absent friends. The group photo (above), taken by Allan Harris, reunion events and get-togethers. includes 28 alumni from the year in which Here are some of the latest ones 80 graduated and a photo taken on the Parkinson Steps after the last exam of finals you have been holding. in 1972 – with some even standing in the same places. The group is looking forward to the next event, which will be an informal lunch in spring 2020. Joan Gaunt, Class of 1972 18 ISSUE 42 SPRING/SUMMER 2018 DIAMOND REUNION

OF THE CLASS OF 1957 REUNITED MEDICS

60 years since qualification and 66 years since their Freshers’ conference, members of the Class of 1957 returned for a two-day reunion in Leeds. Whilst here they enjoyed a guided tour of the University including the new Laidlaw Library – thanks to Laura and Megan of the Alumni Department – as well as taking in the Royal Armouries Museum and travelling by water taxi. Organiser John Chippindale also arranged dinners in a private room in the Queen’s Hotel and the group has plans to meet again this year.

CLASS OF 1957 RECEIVE SURPRISES AT THE 2017 PROFESSIONALISM CEREMONY

The Class of 1957 returned to campus to receive surprise awards at the 3rd Year’s Professionalism Ceremony in October 2017. Brian Whittaker and John Chippindale thought they were attending to represent the School of Medicine Alumni, but instead were presented with awards to reflect their ongoing commitment to current students at the School. Brian and John looked very shocked and surprised to hear their names announced, but made up for it with a fitting celebration at the reception that followed the event.

If you are planning a reunion event, please let us know. Email [email protected] or call 0113 343 6723 with the details. MEDICINE MATTERS 19 MEMORIES OF LEEDS MEMORIES

Leeds Town Hall, late 1960s

“One dull October day in 1962, I boarded a steam train at King’s Cross (with my mother weeping on the platform) and journeyed to Leeds… My digs were in Chapeltown with a Polish landlady – how exotic that was then. I had the inevitable salami and potatoes for supper. The last shovel of coal went on the fire every evening at 7pm.” Alex Hall

“I had digs in Kelso Gardens with an Austrian couple who were wartime refugees. The landlady had been a tailoress and taught me to make clothes. She was also a wonderful cook, especially of pancakes Austrian-style. Nothing could have been more welcoming for my first time away from home at 18. As well as friendships that have lasted a lifetime, Leeds gave me a wonderful medical education, leading to a rewarding career. We were all so lucky to have those years in Leeds.” Lucia Birchall, nee Jones

“It was October 1962. The words delivered with a Scottish brogue by a seemingly ancient, somewhat stern New Zealander, called Professor Archibald Durward. One of the last gross anatomists, he had followed the likes of Hunter, Gray and Cunningham. Looking back after 55 years it is hard to believe ‘Archie’ was only 60; he would be dead within 2 years.” John D Fenwick

“How do you sum up 5 years that set the course for the rest of your life? My memories include shock at the abject poverty of the streets around the medical school, the smell of the dissecting room, the kindness of Daddy Walls, the fear induced by the Cuban Missile Crisis in our first term, then the long freezing winter of 1962-63.” Sharon Hancock, nee Morris

“I came up for my interview at the old medical school by steam train from King’s Cross. The journey took just three hours. I remember giant slag heaps at Doncaster and obvious poverty. I also remember a friendly welcome. Next time I came up in order to sort out accommodation, I hitch-hiked and spent a night on a bench on Pontefract racecourse. I found digs in Edwin Road with a Polish family. They had a harrowing tale to tell. They made me feel

MEMORIES OF LEEDS welcome and I stayed there for three years.” John Hancock

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MEMORIES OF LEEDS INAUGURAL LECTURE: PANDIT LECTURE: INAUGURAL BONE SETTERS TO BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERS INAUGURAL LECTURE: PROFESSOR HERMANDT PANDIT

I am honoured and humbled to give my inaugural lecture monitor and optimise patient recovery and improving which gives a synopsis of my journey so far, my vision patient outcomes. I also work in low and middle income and my passions. It also takes you through the humble countries, in particular in sub-Saharan Africa, where the beginnings of orthopaedic surgery as a speciality and main area of my work is to reduce the impact of trauma current areas of growth and research in this field. and develop ways to improve patient outcomes with limited resources. I came to the UK in 1995 and, having trained in the Wessex region, joined the University of Oxford in 2000 I am passionate about teaching and training. Over the past as a clinical research fellow. Over the coming years, 12 months, I have secured various research and industry I completed my D Phil in knee kinematics and worked grants and developed key partnerships locally, regionally, my way towards securing a recognition of distinction nationally as well as internationally. I am looking forward and title of Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Oxford to making a positive impact in my field of expertise and in 2016. I took up the post of Professor of Orthopaedics welcome multidisciplinary research opportunities. and Honorary Consultant at Leeds Trust in October Read more about Professor Pandit’s lecture in our 2016. My research interests have been primarily in online edition https://goo.gl/Kgs1jc. the areas of osteoarthritis, joint replacement, how to

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Amputation for gangrene before the advent of anaesthesia

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PROFESSOR MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN PAUL STEWART A big thank you to Trudie Roberts for taking over from Peter Grant as the new Editor of Medicine Matters. Like Peter before her, each new Editor brings new ideas and I hope you like the revised format and content.

We live in times of unprecedented change; innovation – notably in imaging, digital Brexit and its uncertainties, ongoing higher health and surgical technologies – all education reform with the Higher Education with the aim of improving patient Funding Council of England (HEFCE) and population health and oucomes. becoming the Office for Students (OfS) in Research-embedded education March to coincide with the launch of the UK remains at the forefront of our Medical Research Institute that will now be the home School philosophy and ensures that for our research funding councils and Innovate each of our students on moving into the UK. Add to this an NHS that, despite working medical profession is fully equipped, at ever increasing levels of efficiency, cannot not only to deliver outstanding patient keep up with demand, at least with its current care, but also to help shape the future resource allocation, as well as a looming of medicine. pension crisis, and you have an unsettling Finally, our estate. 2017 saw the time for our students and staff. completion of the £43m upgrade It is therefore with even greater pride that I to the Worsley Building – the largest share with you some of the recent successes refurbishment ever undertaken across the of the Medical School and wider University. University. It has been transformative to staff On the back of our University of the Year and students alike and we now have a home 2017 status, the School continued to attract for the School we can all be proud of. We are high-quality applications and excelled in not complacent; you may have heard about its widening participation programme. the proposed expansion in medical Accolades to the School and our students student numbers across England (some of which are detailed in this edition) and I hope to be able to tell are numerous and significant – all of which you how Leeds will play its contributed to the University being awarded part in our next edition of Gold status in the externally assessed Teaching Medicine Matters. Excellence Framework with “students from I thank you all for your all backgrounds achieving consistently ongoing support. outstanding outcomes supported by outstanding physical and digital resources.” Paul M Stewart (See: https://goo.gl/Uts6Hw) On research we had our most successful year ever; nearly £60m of new research awards to address greater understanding of disease mechanisms, novel diagnostics, evaluation of new medicines and behaviours, technological

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