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Peter McGuffin: psychiatrist and researcher who set out to find better ways of defining severe mental illness

March 18, 2024

Robert Geoffrey Chaytor

March 15, 2024

Fayek Dimitri Salama

March 15, 2024

David Ian Shepherd

March 15, 2024

Bernard Guratsky

March 15, 2024

Godwin Chandrarajan Reginald

March 15, 2024

Colin Walker: early pioneer of neonatal intensive care who developed national database for newborn infants

March 13, 2024

Anthony Epstein: pathologist and virologist who jointly discovered the Epstein-Barr virus

February 29, 2024

Linda Beecham: a love of the arts, the BMA, and The BMJ

February 28, 2024

Nancy Patricia McLean

February 23, 2024

Kenneth McLean

February 23, 2024

Jennifer Ann Salisbury

February 23, 2024

Rosemary Doddington

February 23, 2024

Paul Anthony Edmund Hurst

February 23, 2024

Gopalakrishnan Madhavan

February 23, 2024

Michael Litster Fisher

February 16, 2024

Kenneth John Holley

February 16, 2024

John Miell

February 16, 2024

Lauren Phillips

February 16, 2024

William Ian Jones

February 16, 2024

Cedrick Reginald Martys

February 16, 2024

JPR Williams: rugby union player and orthopaedic surgeon

February 13, 2024

Derek Lockstone

February 9, 2024

Thomas George Parks

February 9, 2024

John Humphrey Wilfred Shaw

February 9, 2024

Donald William Bethune

February 9, 2024

Anne Kathleen Rowlands

February 9, 2024

Gillian Matthews

February 9, 2024

Philip James: obesity researcher who helped to set up the Food Standards Agency and develop the body mass index

February 8, 2024

Pamela Epps: Edinburgh GP who fought to practise single handed and welcomed “problem patients”

February 1, 2024

Sidney Wolfe: public health leader who campaigned for reform across the US health system

January 31, 2024

Roy Calne: surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation

January 31, 2024

Cyrille Amerasinghe

January 30, 2024

Mahmoud Fathalla: professor of obstetrics and gynaecology and international advocate for women’s health

January 26, 2024

Mark Mortimer Crosse

January 26, 2024

Michael Hall

January 26, 2024

Carissa Etienne: erstwhile leader of PAHO and WHO who transformed public health in the Caribbean

January 26, 2024

Anthony Eisinger: innovative nephrologist who established a centre of excellence in renal medicine

January 26, 2024

Caroline Richmond: formidable science journalist, quack busting campaigner, and obituarist

January 25, 2024

Austen Joseph Moore

January 24, 2024

Edwin Anthony Slater

January 24, 2024

Lola Ethel Barnett

January 24, 2024

Chris Bulstrode: volunteered for the army as a trauma surgeon in his 50s

January 19, 2024

Maisara Al Rayyes: doctor and Chevening scholar, who was committed to improving health in Gaza

January 18, 2024

Wanda Poltawska: psychiatrist who survived Ravensbrück concentration camp and became close friends with the Pope

January 17, 2024

Stephen Christopher Moore

January 17, 2024

Judith Ewing

January 17, 2024

Glenys Phillips

January 17, 2024

Sally Godward

January 17, 2024

Noushin Farhoumand

January 17, 2024

Peter J Enoch

January 17, 2024

John Hedges

January 12, 2024

Paul Cassford Weaver

January 12, 2024

Akhil Chandra Biswas

January 12, 2024

William Stanley Monkhouse

January 12, 2024

David Mervyn Davies

January 12, 2024

V H R Krishnan

January 12, 2024

John Talbott: vociferous proponent of community psychiatry

January 12, 2024

Claire Sturge: child and adolescent psychiatrist who pushed for better understanding of alternative families

December 19, 2023

James Jeffrey Maccabe

December 12, 2023

Anton Buter

December 8, 2023

Glyn Roger Williams

December 8, 2023

Stanley Dennington Pratt

December 8, 2023

Michael Aziz

December 8, 2023

Dennis Barter

December 8, 2023

Nigel C H Stott: pioneering academic GP who championed multidisciplinary approaches to understand and tackle complex health problems

December 6, 2023

Susan Abarca Salazar: consultant in paediatric infectious diseases whose research benefited children with neurological infections

December 5, 2023

James Kyle

November 30, 2023

Nicholas Henry Dyer

November 30, 2023

Colin Smith

November 30, 2023

Kuljeet Takhar

November 30, 2023

Hans Ludwig Herzberg Frankel

November 30, 2023

John Pithie Ballantyne

November 30, 2023

Donald Longmore: surgeon, physiologist, and leading member of the team that undertook Britain’s first human-to-human heart transplantation

November 28, 2023

Kawaldip Sehmi: global champion of patients’ rights

November 23, 2023

Vincent Marks: pioneering researcher into insulin and hypoglycaemia and sought after expert witness

November 22, 2023

Kitty Mary Watt

November 21, 2023

Gerald Sandler

November 21, 2023

Maria Jadwiga Długołęcka-Graham

November 17, 2023

Cheung Yuen Ngan

November 17, 2023

Michael Anthony Crilly

November 17, 2023

Michael Dronfield

November 17, 2023

Roland Griffiths: innovative psychedelics researcher

November 16, 2023

Linda Luxon: international leader in audiovestibular medicine

November 9, 2023

John Perkins

November 9, 2023

David William Sills

November 9, 2023

Sean McMahon

November 9, 2023

David Wild

November 9, 2023

Joanna Kay Banbery

November 9, 2023

Jill Brock

November 9, 2023

William Duncan: radiation oncologist who disproved the hyped claims for fast neutron therapy

November 2, 2023

Alexander Harrow

October 27, 2023

Frank O’Dwyer

October 27, 2023

Leslie Keith Harding

October 27, 2023

Paul Dominic Martin

October 27, 2023

Mary Chisham

October 27, 2023

Anthony Gordon Gray

October 27, 2023

Henry Carson Smyth Leitch

October 27, 2023

Steve Blair: leading expert on the health benefits of exercise

October 27, 2023

Uchenna Okoye: renowned dentist, author, and media personality

October 26, 2023
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