Patrick Forrest

Sir Andrew Patrick McEwen Forrest FRCS FRCPE FRSE (25 March 1923 – 7 August 2021) was a Scottish surgeon.[1]

Sir

Patrick Forrest

FRCS FRCPE 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)

After qualifying in medicine from the University of St Andrews and completing a Fellowship at the Mayo in Rochester, Minnesota, he took up surgical posts first in Glasgow, then in Wales, followed by a position as 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 Welsh National School of Medicine in 1962.[3] He moved to the University of Edinburgh to take up the Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery in 1971,[3] where he eventually became emeritus.[4]

He also served as Chief Scientist to the Scottish Department of Home and Health, and chaired the Department of Health working group on the implementation of the 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. THE INTERNATIONAL WHO'S WHO: 1992-93. Europa Publications. 1992. p. 527. ISBN 9780946653843. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  2. History of the Chair of Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 23 June 2017
  3. Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2002). Peptic Ulcer: Rise and Fall. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-084-7. OL 16407699M. 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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