David Ivor Maurice Siegler

Something of a star pupil, at University College Hospital Medical School David Ivor Maurice Siegler won the Fellowes silver medal in clinical medicine, the senior undergraduate prize for medicine, the FT Roberts prize, the McGrath scholarship, and was then appointed house physician to the professorial medical unit under Professor Lord Rosenheim at University College Hospital. Three years later he was appointed registrar to the same unit.

His path set on obtaining a consultancy in medicine, David undertook further training with stints at the Royal Free Hospital, University College Hospital, and the Royal Brompton Hospital. In 1975 he completed a research fellowship in pulmonary physiology …