Alan Lyell

Alan Lyell (* November 4, 1917 in British India; † 2 November 2007) was a Scottish dermatologist. After Alan Lyell Lyell 's syndrome is named.

Life

Alan Lyell was born the son of a British officer in India. After his birth Lyell's mother died of puerperal fever. He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and during the Second World War at St. Thomas 's Hospital, London. From 1942, he then worked in a military hospital in 1944 and took on D-Day as a medical officer of a regiment in part. He already retired in 1944 after a knee injury by so-called friendly fire from military service again.

From 1946 he specialized in dermatology. He first worked again at St. Thomas 's Hospital, then at Addenbrooke 's Hospital in Cambridge and finally at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh under the Professor of Dermatology GH Percival. From 1951 he was a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh University and in 1962 a Fellow of the College. to the activity of Professor Percival is an activity joined in Aberdeen. In 1962 he finally moved to Glasgow, where he became head of the Dermatology Department of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. While in Glasgow he became known for his research on the syndrome named after him.

From the 1970s he retired because of the deterioration of medical care in the UK back. He could nor the formation of a new Department of Dermatology trigger, now called Alan Lyell Centre.