A Memorial Service was held on March 6th at Royce Hall at UCLA. It was a marvellous service in memory of a great pioneer in organ transplantation and the tributes were all memorable. Some 1000 people attended. The service started with an opening song by the opera singer, Miss Lova Hyatt, ‘Amazing Grace’, and then […]
It is with great sadness that just after reporting the death of Richard Batchelor I have to report the death of another old friend and colleague, Paul Terasaki, Professor of Surgery at UCLA. Paul died on January 25, 2016 at the age of 86. Paul Terasaki was one of the giants in the history of […]
Ricard Batchelor died just before Christmas (December 21, 2015) after a short illness. This was unexpected and is a very sad loss to the worldwide transplant community. Richard was not only a colleague of mine for many years but a very old friend, and hence I feel doubly sad at our loss of a pioneer […]
I was sad to hear that David Sackett died recently at the age of 80. He was arguably the father of evidence based medicine and the first chair of the Cochrane Collaboration steering group in 1993. He was appointed the first Professor of the newly founded Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in 1994, having come […]
Joe Murray, who performed the first successful human organ transplant from a living donor in December 1954, has just died. He died at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston where he had spent most of his career. He became interested in transplantation because of his exposure to the management of burns with skin grafts at […]