Alan Parks
Sir Alan Guyatt Parks ( December 19, 1920 - November 3, 1982 in London ) was a British surgeon specializing in the colon and rectum .
Parks attended Sutton High School and Epsom College and studied medicine from 1939 at Oxford University (Brasenose College) with a bachelor's degree in 1943. He was then on a Rockefeller scholarship at Johns Hopkins University (internship) with an MD degree in 1947. In the same year he completed his specialist training as a surgeon at Guy's Hospital in London ( Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery , MB BCh). He was a house surgeon with Sam Wass and Sir Heneage Ogilvie while taking his MRCP (Member Royal College of Physicians) in 1948 and FRCP (Fellow Royal College of Surgeons) exams in 1949. He then spent two years as a surgeon with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) in Malaysia, Japan and Korea. After his return he was a surgeon (Residential Surgical Officer) at Putney Hospital in London and from 1953 at Guy's Hospital (Registrar and later Senior Registrar). In 1954 he received his Master of Surgery (MCh) degree from Oxford (with a thesis on the surgical treatment of hemorrhoids). In 1959 he became a Consultant Surgeon at St. Mark's Hospital in London. He died after a heart attack that he suffered while visiting Rome and after undergoing emergency surgery at St. Bartholomew Hospital in London.
Parks was considered to be the capacity for surgery of the rectum and colon and also conducted research on its physiology.
In 1980 he received the Ernst Jung Prize . In 1977 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor . In 1980 he became President of the Royal College of Surgeons, whose Hunterian Professor he was in 1965 and whose Hunterian Orator he was in 1983. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College or Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, the Australasian College of Surgeons, the Canadian Surgical Society, the American Society of Colonal and Rectal Surgeons, and the American College of Surgeons. He was a corresponding member of the German Surgical Society and an honorary member of the Italian Surgical Society. He was President of the Proctology Department of the Royal Society of Medicine.
He was married to the doctor Caroline Cranston and had four children.
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- ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parks, Alan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Parks, Alan Guyatt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1920 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd November 1982 |
| Place of death | London |