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David James Macglashan Emerson
British Journal of Plastic Surgery (1996), 49, 190 0 1996 The British Association of Plastic Surgeons
Obituary David James Macglashan Emerson surgical achievement. This was to change in the summer of 1994 when a pleural biopsy showed a mesothelioma. Education at Uppingham and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School was followed by the usual round of house jobs. James embarked upon his chosen career in plastic surgery at Mount Vernon Hospital as a Senior House Officer in 1978. A Registrar post including a period of research at Chepstow followed before he was appointed as Senior Registrar at Sheffield in 1982. The whole of 1984 was spent in Adelaide with David David and three months of the spring of 1986 as an international scholar in the USA. In November 1987, he took up the first consultant post in the newly formed Plastic Surgery Unit at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage and returned to Sheffield in September 1989. His concern for the underprivileged extended internationally. Early in his career he spent a year in South America and more recently James and colleagues from Sheffield formed the first British plastic surgical group to travel to Tuzla, Bosnia with Medecins Sans Front&es. Away from the hospital James was a keen mountaineer and an accomplished skier. A satisfied smile and a number of abrasions were the telltale story of an eventful weekend on the end of a rope. Towards the end his determination to maintain normal life was remarkable. He worked until two months before his death. He is survived by his wife, Vanessa, who is a doctor, and three young daughters. R. E. PAGE
James was a member of the BAPS Council, Chairman of the Organising Committee of the BAPS Advanced Courses and a member of the BAPS Education and Research Committee. He had also been a member of the Editorial Committees of the British Journal of Plastic Surgery and the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. With a special interest in cleft surgery, he was about to complete a major research project jointly with the Sheffield University Department of Psychology into the effects of neonatal cleft lip repair and was also a major participant in the BAPS multicentre audit of cleft surgery. An illustrious career was heading towards the peak of
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Obituary David James Macglashan Emerson surgical achievement. This was to change in the summer of 1994 when a pleural biopsy showed a mesothelioma. Education at Uppingham and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School was followed by the usual round of house jobs. James embarked upon his chosen career in plastic surgery at Mount Vernon Hospital as a Senior House Officer in 1978. A Registrar post including a period of research at Chepstow followed before he was appointed as Senior Registrar at Sheffield in 1982. The whole of 1984 was spent in Adelaide with David David and three months of the spring of 1986 as an international scholar in the USA. In November 1987, he took up the first consultant post in the newly formed Plastic Surgery Unit at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage and returned to Sheffield in September 1989. His concern for the underprivileged extended internationally. Early in his career he spent a year in South America and more recently James and colleagues from Sheffield formed the first British plastic surgical group to travel to Tuzla, Bosnia with Medecins Sans Front&es. Away from the hospital James was a keen mountaineer and an accomplished skier. A satisfied smile and a number of abrasions were the telltale story of an eventful weekend on the end of a rope. Towards the end his determination to maintain normal life was remarkable. He worked until two months before his death. He is survived by his wife, Vanessa, who is a doctor, and three young daughters. R. E. PAGE
James was a member of the BAPS Council, Chairman of the Organising Committee of the BAPS Advanced Courses and a member of the BAPS Education and Research Committee. He had also been a member of the Editorial Committees of the British Journal of Plastic Surgery and the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. With a special interest in cleft surgery, he was about to complete a major research project jointly with the Sheffield University Department of Psychology into the effects of neonatal cleft lip repair and was also a major participant in the BAPS multicentre audit of cleft surgery. An illustrious career was heading towards the peak of
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