Lindsay Symon

Lindsay Symon (born November 4, 1929 in Aberdeen , † December 2, 2019 ) was a Scottish neurosurgeon .

Career

Symon attended Aberdeen Grammar School and graduated from Aberdeen University in 1951. As a pupil and student, he won prizes, such as the Lyon Prize for the best medical student in his class when he graduated. His dissertation was on the causes and treatment of migraines and won the Fulton Prize in Neurology. He completed his clinical training at the Royal Infirmary in Aberdeen, where he was House Officer (in both surgery and medicine). For several years he served as a surgeon in the Royal Army Medical Corps and then was a Research Fellow in Surgery and then Registrar in Aberdeen. He conducted research with William Feldberg at the National Institute of Medical Research, then was assistant and eventually registrar at Valentine Logue at Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London. From 1965 he was a consultant at the National Hospitals in London (which also includes the Maida Vale). He was also on a Rockefeller Fellowship at Wayne State University with John Sterling Meyer . In addition to his work as a neurosurgeon, he set up a research group at the National Hospital in Queen's Square in London, where he became professor (University of London) in 1978. There he also built a leading UK neurosurgical training center. From 1981 until retirement in 1995 he was Senior Surgeon at the National Hospital Group. He was also an honorary consultant to several other English hospitals and was an adjunct professor at the Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas.

In particular, he researched blood circulation in the brain and the metabolism of the brain.

In 1998 he received the Otfrid Foerster Medal of the German Society for Neurosurgery, of which he has been an honorary member since 1991. In 1988 he was Guest of Honor of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He received the John Hunter Award from the Royal College of Surgeons and was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in London and Edinburgh. He was a Freeman of the City of London. From 1989 to 1993 he was President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies and from 1975 to 1979 Vice President of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies.

In 1993 he received the Zülch Prize for work on ischemic stroke . He also published on neurosurgery for neuromas of the auditory nerve, aneurysms , craniopharyngioma and the use of evoked potentials in the clinic and laboratory.

He was married to Pauline Rowland, whom he met in Austria (as a member of a mobile neurosurgical unit in the British Army) and has three children with her.

He was one of the founders in 1972 and was the editor of Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery from 1984 to 1994 . He was CBE .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael O'Brien: Obituary: Lindsay Symon. World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, February 4, 2020, accessed February 12, 2020 . 

literature

• Biography in the British Journal of Neurosurgery, Volume 9, 1995, pp. 279-281.
• Penny Warren: Lindsay Symon: neurosurgery professor and distinguished surgeon whose research into the ischaemic penumbra improved stroke treatment . In: BMJ . tape 368 , 2020, p. m319 , doi : 10.1136 / bmj.m319 .

Web links

• Biography at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons
• Biography with the Society of Neurological Surgeons