Staff of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (RPMS), Hammersmith Hospital, on the day of Sir John McMichael's retirement as Director of the Department of Medicine, 1966. Photograph.

Seated, left to right: J.P. Shillingford, Professor of Cardiology, later McMichael Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, RPMS, 1976-1979; Dr C.L. Cope, Reader in Endocrinology (deceased by 1993); Prof. J.F. Goodwin, Professor of Clinical Cardiology, later in private practice; Prof. T.Russell Fraser, Head of Endocrinology, Asst. Secretary of the New Zealand Medical Resarch Council; Sir John McMichael, Head of the School; E. Bywaters, Professor of Rheumatology and Head of the Medical Research Council Unit at Taplow; Prof. Guy Scadding, respiratory physician, Dean of the Institute of Thoracic Medicine at the Brompton Hospital; Dr (later Prof.) C.M. Fletcher, respiratory epidemiologist, previously Director of the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit at Cardiff, author of the Royal College of Physicians report on smoking, 1962, son of Sir Walter Morley Fletcher; Prof. J.P.M. Tizard, paediatrician, later Professor of Paediatrics at Oxford University, son of Sir Henry Tizard

Standing, left to right: Dr P. Stradling, Director of the Chest Clinic; Dr G. Poole, Asst. Director of the Chest Clinic; Dr M. Brain, son of Lord Brain, head of Haematology at McMaster University Medical School; Dr Celia Oakley, cardiologist, later Professor of Clinical Cardiology at Hammersmith; Dr J.T. Scott, rheumatologist, later head of rheumatology at Charing Cross; Dr Patrick Mounsey, later Provost of the Welsh National School of Medicine; Dr I. Gilliland, endocrinologist (deceased by 1993); Dr C. Pallis, neurologist; Dr C.C. Booth, gastroenterologist, McMichael's successor at the RPMS, later Director of the MRC Clinical Research Centre, Northwick Park; Dr C.T. Dollery, later Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Hammersmith, later Professor of Medicine at Hammersmith, later Dean of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School; Prof. E.J. Moran Campbell, respirologist, Foundation Professor of Medicine at McMaster University; Dr John West, later President of the American Physiological Society and Professor of Respiratory Physiology at the University of California at La Jolla; Dr G. Joplin, endocrinologist; Dr I. Gabe, cardiac physiologist, Lecturer in Medicine, RPMS, later at Midhurst Medical Institute; Dr J. Davis, Reader in Paediatrics, later Professor of Paediatrics at Cambridge University; Dr Derek Bergel, physiologist; Dr Oliver Wrong, nephrologist, later Professor of Medicine at Dundee University, later Professor of Medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, London

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1966] (London)

1 photograph : photoprint

Identification of the persons was kindly provided by Sir Christopher Booth, September 1993

Christopher C. Booth, "Medical science and technology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School: the first fifty years", British Medical Journal , vol. 291, 21-28 December 1985, pp. 1771-1779, p. 1776

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