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Cram Recently, Frederick Cram, MRPharmS, aged 91, of 2 Church Farm Road,
Heacham, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE31 7JB. Mr Cram registered in 1941.
Fraser On 22 November, Ernest Fraser, aged 89, of The Field House, Laggan
Road, Crieff, Perthshire PH7 4JL. Mr Fraser registered in 1948 and retired
from the Register in 2000.
Galbraith On 2 December, Alexander Galbraith, MRPharmS, aged 83, of 2
Buckingham Drive, Emmer Green, Reading, Berkshire RG4 8RZ. Mr Galbraith
registered in 1945.
Leung On 6 December, Sai Leung Leung, MRPharmS, aged 57, of 5 Parkland
Road, Woodford Green, Essex IG8 9AP. Mr Leung registered in 1978.
Tandy In May, Olive Lilian Tandy, MRPharmS, aged 93, of 142 Dorchester
Road, Weymouth, Dorset DT3 5EF. Mrs Tandy registered in 1936.
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Tributes
Smith In a tribute to
the late Stephen Smith, KATHY HAGAN writes:
Stephen Smith died on 4 December
2007 at St Christopher’s Hospice, Sydenham. He
served as a lay-member of the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
from 1978–1988. On stepping down he was appointed an honorary fellow
of the Society.
I had the great fortune to be Stephen’s research student when undertaking
my PhD studies in the department of clinical pharmacology, St Thomas’ Hospital
Medical School, in the late 1970s. Stephen was an Oxford graduate, with a passion
for music, and
an aptitude for the application of statistics in clinical research.
He forged contacts world-wide in his work and it was, therefore,
no surprise to me to be carrying
out studies on clinical samples
from leprosy patients in Burma, together with those from the only leprosy patients
located in the UK. Nor did I find it unusual when he recruited members of the
department to act as normal volunteers in studies.
Together with his wife,
Shirley Smith, Stephen published extensively on their pioneering work on
diabetic retinopathy,
and I was delighted to be one of their first subjects providing ophthalmic
measurements using the brand new pupillometer.
Stephen wrote one of the first books on the study of genetic variation of
drug metabolism in twins: the twins were Swedish. This stimulated what is
now one
of the largest study-centres in the world for ongoing studies on twins, at
St Thomas’ Hospital.
Stephen’s refreshingly avant-garde approach to pharmacy, with clinical
pharmacy in its embryonic stage, allowed me to gain a unique insight into clinical
matters on the wards and access to patients. This proved extremely beneficial
for my early career in St Thomas’ Hospital pharmacy, and later in medical
writing.
During my tenure at the medical school, Stephen and Shirley became the proud
parents of Simon and, later, their daughter, Alex. At first-hand, I observed
a big change in Stephen, who coming to fatherhood later in life adjusted
his work-life balance to accommodate these precious children. He really was
modern
man before it became fashionable.
Just four days before his death from cancer, a touching picture of Stephen
and Shirley appeared in The Times as part of the newspaper’s
Christmas Appeal for “Help the Hospices”. Brave to the end, there
was Stephen finding the strength to help with fundraising and most of all
still teaching along the
way.
Stephen had undertaken his medical training alongside Dame Cicely Saunders,
who went on to found St Christopher’s Hospice 40 years ago. He wholly
embraced her philosophy that dying is a part of life. Remarkable.
Heartfelt sympathies go out to Shirley, Simon and Alex from me, and my
husband Peter Allen. |
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