Bulletin Number Three 1983

Professor P.C. Leung Professor J. Vallance-Owen Professor J.A . Thornton Professor J. Vallance-Owen Professor o f Medicine Professor John Vallance-Owen graduated MA, MBBChir (Cantab) in July 1946 ， having received his education at Cambridge University (Natural Science Tripos Parts I & II) and the London Hospital; he proceeded MRCP (London) the same year. For the next five years, he held various appointments at the London Hospital, including Pathology Assistant w ith Professor Dorothy Russell, Clinical Laboratory Assis tant w ith Sir Samuel Bedson, and finally Medical First Assistant for over two years to Sir Horace Evans (later Lord Evans o fMerthyr Tydfil). He obtained his MD (Cantab) in 1951 and worked w ith first Dr. C.L. Cope and then Professor Russell Fraser at the Post graduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital. Having secured a Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship in 1955 ， he went to work for a year in the University o f Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A. In 1958,he became Consultant Physician and Senior Lecturer in Medicine at the University o f Durham, and then in 1964 ， Con sultant Physician and Reader in Medicine at the Uni­ versity o f Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. He was appointed Professor and Chairman o f the Department o f Medicine, the Queen's University o f Belfast in 1966 ， a post he held un til his translation to The Chinese University. Professor Vallence-Owen is not only a physician in the broadest sense o f the word, he is also an authority on Diabetes Mellitus, which he has studied and treated for over th irty years. For the same period, he has been teaching undergraduates and post graduates and more recently been an examiner for the final MB and for higher medical and science degrees o f many different universities. Since 1973, he has been a regular examiner for the membership examina tion o f the Royal College o f Physician o f the United Kingdom and also o f Ireland. He is a Fellow and has also been an elected Councillor o f both these Colleges. He is also a Fellow o f the Royal College o f Patholo­ gists. With an international reputation for his pioneer work on the measurement o f insulin activity and antagonism in plasma, he has been invited to lecture and take part in symposia all over the world. In 1976 he was awarded the Oliver Sharpey Prize o f the Royal College o f Physicians o f London. In addition to a large number o f original articles in medical and scientific journals on carbohydrate and fat metabolism and insulin action, he has written or edited several books on diabetes and one on cardiology. Professor J.A. Thornton Professor o f Anaesthesia Professor John Andrew Thornton received his medical education at Guy's Hospital Medical School o f London University. He graduated MBBS in 1951 and proceeded to an MD in 1970. After holding house appointments and a residency in Anaesthesia, he served as a Specialist Anaesthetist in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He worked in Egypt, the Sudan and Cyprus. From 1953 to 1954 ， he was Lecturer in Anaesthetics at the Kitchener School o f Medicine in Khartoum. He returned to Guy's Hospital Medical School in 1956 to complete his training in Anaesthesia and was appointed Lecturer in Experimental Medicine in 1959. In 1963 ， he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia at the University o f Sheffield Medical School and in 1971 to the Foundation Chair. Professor Thornton is a Fellow o f the Faculty o f Anaesthetics o f the Royal College o f Surgeons o f England and has served as a member o f the Board from 1971 to 1983. He has been Chairman o f the Education and Examination Committees o f the Faculty. He was an Examiner in the Primary and Final FFARCS, England. He has served as a member o f the Dental Committee o f the Medical Defence Union, and Secretary o f the Anaesthetic Section o f the Royal Society o f Medicine. He has been involved at a national level in committees and organizations 6 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS