Alan Graham Apley

Alan Graham Apley ( born November 10, 1914 in London, † 20 December 1996) was an English orthopedic surgeon. He was the second great editor of the British Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

Life

Apley was born in London, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. It worked in Roehampton Priory Hospital and served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Burma in Burma, where he was wounded. After his return he developed at the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital a successful orthopedic course. Furthermore, he established one of the first to be built according to functional aspects of emergency departments in southern England. He was inducted into the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1972. In the same year he became director at St Thomas ' Hospital. As the successor of Reginald Watson -Jones, he was editor of the British edition of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

Writings

  • Watson- Jones Lecture: Surgeons and Writers. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery ( Br) 67 -B (1985 ), pp. 140-144; translated by Rüdiger Doehler in: Bulletin of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Traumatology 4/1986, pp. 46-56
  • Orthopedics, German edition. Weinheim 1991
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