Английская Википедия:Alan Gilston

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Dr Alan Gilston FRCS, FFARCS (1928-2005) was a British anaesthesiologist. He was one of the team who performed the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom.[1]

Early life

His grandfather was Israel Gitlesohn, Bradford's first shohet, who was from Lithuania.[2]

Career

Gilston was Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist at the National Heart Hospital from 1967 to 1990.[3] On 3 May 1968, he acted as anaesthetist for the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom, which was also only the eleventh in the world.[3]

A founder of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, he also served as its president.[3]

He initiated the first World Congress on Intensive Care in 1974, and was its secretary-general.[3]

He was founder and chairman of the Intensive Care Society. He later gave the society's inaugural Gilston Lecture, named by the society in his honour, and received their silver Medal.[2][3]

He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS), and a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FFARCS).[3]

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