Professor of respiratory medicine University of Sydney, Australia (b Reynella, South Australia 1937; q Adelaide 1961; MD, FRACP), died from breast cancer on 17 February 2001. Ann was a world leader in respiratory medicine and probably had more influence on modern asthma management than anyone else. She set up the respiratory laboratory at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, then, after a period of research at McGill University, established the Institute of Respiratory Medicine there in 1982. A multidisciplinary clinical research centre was recently established in Sydney, and directed by Ann. She trained a generation of leading investigators in respiratory medicine in Australia. She published extensively and was in great demand as a speaker throughout the world. Her enormous contribution was recognised by many international awards. She was made an officer of the Order of Australia in 1989 and was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences in 1992 (the first practising female clinician to achieve this honour). She leaves a husband, Ruthven, and two sons.
by Peter Barnes and Iven Young
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Former consultant psychiatrist Cumbria (b 1929; q Dublin 1956; DPM, FRCPsych), died from complications of diabetes and heart problems on 4 January 2001. National service interrupted his medical studies, which he began in Sheffield and completed in Dublin. His interest in psychiatry was fostered while doing paediatrics in Southampton. When looking for a consultant post in 1965, he chose the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven, Cumbria, on the grounds that it was one of the first psychiatric units to be part of a general hospital. That appealed to him because he was keen to reduce the stigma of mental illness that prevailed at that time. As one of only two consultants for the whole of west Cumbria, he travelled far and wide to outpatient clinics and did domiciliary visits all over the western Lake District. He came to be very much part of the local community. He was passionate about opera, gardening, and sailing. He and his wife spent 30 years developing a magnificent rhododendron garden overlooking the Solway Firth. He transplanted some of the smaller plants to their retirement home on the riverbank in Cockermouth. His love of sailing began in dinghies off Dartmouth as a young man and culminated in first a motorsailer moored in Whitehaven harbour and latterly a shared yacht in Greece. He leaves a wife, Mira, four children, and seven grandchildren.
