Marvin Francis Sturridge

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future.

Summaries of surgical cases kept by Sturridge at the London Chest Hospital, Brompton Hospital, National Heart Hospital and Middlesex Hospital, 1959-1979, together with records of research at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 1961-1962, and his University of London MS thesis, "Bronchopleural Fistula following Pneumonectomy for Carcinoma", 1964.

1959-1979

Uncatalogued: 3 transfer boxes, 1 archive box

These papers were donated to the Library in 2001 and were collected from the Middlesex Hospital.

Marvin Francis Sturridge (b. 1926) qualified in medicine from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1952. He went on to specialise in cardiothoracic surgery, pioneering new techniques in trans-sternal thymectomy for myasthenia gravis.

During his career Sturridge held the following posts:

December 1951-November 1953 - House Surgeon, Middlesex Hospital (general surgery)

June-November 1953 - House Surgeon, Middlesex Hospital

December 1953-May 1954 - Casualty Surgical Officer, Middlesex Hospital

February-July 1955 - House Surgeon, Middlesex Hospital (orthopaedic surgery)

January-December 1956 - Casualty Surgical Registrar, Middlesex Hospital

January-December 1957 - Surgical Registrar, St. Andrew's Hospital, Billericay, Essex

January-December 1958 - Surgical Registrar, Middlesex Hospital (general and cardiothoracic surgery)

January-September 1959 - Thoracic Surgical Registrar, London Chest Hospital

October 1959-December 1960 - Senior Surgical Registrar, London Chest Hospital

January-October 1961 - Senior Surgical Registrar, Brompton Hospital

November 1961-October 1962 - Research Assistant, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

November-December 1962 - Senior Registrar, London Chest Hospital

January 1963-December 1965 - Senior Registrar, Brompton Hospital

January 1966-March 1967 - Senior Registrar, National Heart Hospital

From 1967 - Consultant Surgeon, London Chest Hospital

From 1967 - Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Middlesex Hospital

From 1970 - Consultant Surgeon, National Heart and Chest Hospitals

He retired in 1991.

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