St Thomas's Hospital Medical School - Famous Alumni

Famous Alumni

Famous alumni include

  • Takaki Kanehiro (1849 - 1920) - Japanese naval doctor, first person to discover the link between beriberi and diet.
  • Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939) - Physician, sexual psychologist and social reformer.
  • Eric Anson (1892 - 1969) - New Zealand's first specialist anaesthetist.
  • Max Theiler (1899 – 1972) - Virologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine for yellow fever.
  • Richard Doll (1912 - 2005) - Epidemiologist and physiologist; established link between smoking and cancer.
  • Dame Cecily Saunders DBE OM (1918-2005) - Nurse, physician and social worker who developed the concept of the hospice and was a pioneer of palliative care.
  • David Owen (b. 1938) - Labour Foreign Secretary and founder of the Social Democratic Party.
  • Fiona Wood AM (b. 1958) - Plastic surgeon, Australian of the Year 2005.

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    Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,
    Had a bad cold, nevertheless
    Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe,
    With a wicked pack of cards.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)