Alan Gilston
Dr Alan Gilston FRCS, FFARCS (1928-2005) was a British anaesthesiologist. He was one of the team who performed the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom.[1]
Dr Alan Gilston | |
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| Born | 1928 |
| Died | 2005 (aged 76–77) |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Anaesthesiologist |
Early life
His grandfather was Israel Gitlesohn, Bradford's first shohet, who was from Lithuania.[2]
Career
Gilston was Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist at the National Heart Hospital from 1967 to 1990.[3] On 3 May 1968, he acted as anaesthetist for the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom, which was also only the eleventh in the world.[3]
A founder of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, he also served as its president.[3]
He initiated the first World Congress on Intensive Care in 1974, and was its secretary-general.[3]
He was founder and chairman of the Intensive Care Society. He later gave the society's inaugural Gilston Lecture, named by the society in his honour, and received their silver Medal.[2][3]
He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS), and a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FFARCS).[3]
References
- Sarankin, GE; Tuvysheva, TV (November 1975). "[Kunkel's phenol test in the diagnosis of arteriosclerosis]". Vrachebnoe delo (11): 16–7. PMID 1199043.
- "Dr Alan Gilston". Yorkshire Post. 16 July 2005.
- Tilli Tansey; Lois Reynolds, eds. (1999). Early heart transplant surgery in the UK. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-1-84129-007-2. OL 12568266M. Wikidata Q29581627.