John Chalmers (orthopaedic surgeon)

John Chalmers ( born September 21, 1927 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish orthopedic surgeon.

Life

Chalmers studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After graduation (MB ChB ) and two years as a house officer, he began in 1952, the surgical training in the medical corps of the British Army ( RAMC ). In 1953 he passed the exams elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. From 1954 to 1957 he underwent orthopedic training in Oxford and at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London. After a Orthopaedic Fellowship at the University of Illinois from 1958 to 1961 he was Lecturer in Edinburgh. In 1961, he graduated to the MD. 1963, he was also a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

As a lecturer and consultant senior he remained until 1990, over 32 years at the Royal Infirmary and the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital. After retirement, he ran until 1997, a private practice and taught in the third world countries. He is considered the " orthopedic surgeon for orthopedic surgeons ."

Private

With his wife Gwyneth he has four children and six grandchildren. One of my sons is interventional radiologist, the other lawyer, a subsidiary general practitioner in New Zealand, the other tax advisor.

Over 50 years he devoted himself to beekeeping.

Honorary positions and committees

  • President of the British Orthopaedic Association (1989 /90)
  • President of the British Orthopaedic Research Society
  • Specialist Advisory Committee for Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Scottish bone tumor registry
  • Medical Research Council, osteoporosis Commission
  • Merit Award Committee for Scotland

Visiting Professorships

  • University of Auckland
  • Dalhousie University
  • Hong Kong University
  • Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem ( as a Fellow of the British Council )
  • University of Basra
  • Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa

Guest lectures he held in Kuwait, Oman, Coimbatore and Pakistan ( for WHO ).

Publisher

  • The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
  • Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
  • Journal of the Western Pacific Orthopaedic Association
  • Journal of Orthopaedics
  • Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
  • Scottish Medical Journal

Publications (selection )

  • March haemoglobinuria. British Journal of Surgery 44 (1957), 394
  • Transplantation immunity in bone grafting homo. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 41 -B ( 1959), 160-179
  • The growth of transplanted fetal bones in different immunological environments. JBJS 44 -B (1962), 149-164
  • Cancellous bone: its strength and changes with aging and in evaluation of some methods for measuring its mineral content. I Age changes in cancellous bone. JBJS 48 -A ( 1966), 289-299
  • II An evaluation of some methods for measuring osteoporosis. JBJS 48 -A ( 1966), 299-308
  • Audubon in Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 2003
  • Andrew Duncan, Physician of the Enlightenment. Edinburgh, 2010
Interventional radiology Family medicine Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) University of Hong Kong The Lancet
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