James Learmonth

Sir James Learmonth Rognvald ( born March 23, 1895 in Gatehouse of Fleet, Scotland, † September 27, 1967 in Broughton ) was a British surgeon.

Learmonth was the son of a school principal. He studied from 1913 medicine at Glasgow University, interrupted by service as an officer ( last Captain ) in the Kings Own Scottish Boarders in the First World War in France. In 1921 he received his degree (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, BMChB ), where he was awarded the Brunton Memorial Prize of the University for his outstanding achievements. This was followed by a residency at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow (1921 /22) and he was also assistant to the Regius Professor of Surgery in Glasgow William Macewen. It was followed by a stay in 1924/25 as a Rockefeller Fellow at the Mayo Clinic. There he conducted research on the nerves of the bladder and the physiology of micturition, which brought him international recognition. He then returned to the Western Infirmary in Glasgow and pursued a course of study in addition as a surgeon, with a Master in Surgery ( ChM ) Final 1927. 1928 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and was then four years in the United States at the Mayo Clinic at the invitation of William James Mayo. In 1932 he became Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Aberdeen and from 1939 as the successor of David Wilkie, Professor of Systematic Surgery at the University of Edinburgh. He remained until his early retirement in 1956 in Edinburgh, additionally from 1946 as Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery in succession to John Fraser. In addition to his surgical and teaching, he led a research group at Gogarburn Hospital for injuries of the peripheral nerves and blood vessels. In 1948, he led in Edinburgh regularly on Saturday morning, the first systematic surgical audits in Britain, which were attended by surgeons throughout the city.

After 1949 the British king George VI operates, who suffered from vasculitis ( thromboangiitis obliterans ), he was Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order ( KCVO ). He was officially in charge in Scotland surgeon of the King ( Surgeon to the King in Scotland) or death of 1952-1960 with the Queen.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( 1944), Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ( 1949), the Lister Medal he received in 1951, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE, 1945 ) and several honorary doctorate (Strasbourg, Paris, St. Andrews, Oslo, Edinburgh, Sydney and an honorary doctor of Laws in Glasgow ). He was an honorary member of the American College of Surgeons, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Learmonth was married since 1925 and had a son and a daughter.