Aileen Adams
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Aileen Adams | |
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| Born | Aileen Kirkpatrick Adams 5 September 1923 |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Education | University of Sheffield |
| Occupation | Consultant anaesthetist |
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Aileen Kirkpatrick Adams (born 5 September 1923) is a British retired consultant anaesthetist. She turned 100 in September 2023.[1]
Early life
[edit]Aileen Adams was born on 5 September 1923. She graduated from the University of Sheffield.
Career
[edit]Adams worked as a junior anaesthetist at Addenbrooke's Hospital from 1946 to 1951; as a senior registrar in Bristol from 1952 to 1955; a fellow in anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1955 to 1957; as a locum consultant in Oxford from 1958 to 1959; as a senior lecturer at Lagos University Medical School from 1963 to 1964, and was appointed a consultant anaesthetist back at Addenbrooke' from 1960 to 1984.[2][3]
She was also an associate lecturer at Cambridge University from 1967 to 1984.[2]
She was dean of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons (later the Royal College of Anaesthetists) from 1985 to 1988.[2][4]
History of medicine
[edit]She served as president of the History of Anaesthesia Society from 1990 to 1992, of the History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1994 to 1995; and of the British Society for the History of Medicine from 2003 to 2005.[2]
Honours
[edit]She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA).[2]
Interviews
[edit]Adams, Aileen; Blythe, Max (1996). "Dr Aileen K Adams CBE FRCA in interview with Dr Max Blythe: Interview 1, Part 1" (Interview). Oxford Brookes University. doi:10.24384/000016.
Adams, Aileen; Blythe, Max (1996). "Dr Aileen K Adams CBE FRCA in interview with Dr Max Blythe: Interview 1, Part 2" (Interview). Oxford Brookes University. doi:10.24384/000017.
Adams, Aileen; Blythe, Max (2001). "Dr Aileen K Adams CBE FRCA in interview with Dr Max Blythe: Interview 2" (Interview). Oxford Brookes University. doi:10.24384/000018.
References
[edit]- ^ "Happy Birthday Dr Aileen Adams, CBE, FRCA". RCOA. 5 September 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ a b c d e Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2011). History of British Intensive Care, c. 1950–c. 2000. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-902238-75-6. Wikidata Q29581786.
- ^ The West African Medical Journal, Volume 13. University College, Ibadan, Nigeria. (University of Chicago). 1964. p. 114.
- ^ "Past Deans and Presidents". Royal College of Anaesthetists. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
External links
[edit]- Aileen Adams on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website
- 65 Years of Anaesthesia in the NHS - video featuring Adams