Harvey White (surgeon)

Harvey White was born in 1936.[1] He was educated at Winchester College between 1949 and 1954,[2] and Magdalen College, Oxford. He trained in medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital.[1]

White was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1970.[1]

In 1976, he became consultant surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital, and later at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy and The London Clinic.[3]

Between 1986 and 2003, he was chairman of the Brendoncare Foundation, following which he was appointed Chair of the Vice Patrons Committee.[3][4]

He was president of the Osler Club of London 1986–87.[5]

He is a past president of the Medical Society of London and vice-president of the British Association of Surgical Oncology[1] and the Royal Society of Medicine.[6] In 2012 he was the first recipient of the Royal Society of Medicine Medal.[1]

He founded and chairs the Old Wykehamist Medical Society.[2][7]

White was a co-founder of the Retired Fellows’ Society at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. In addition, he gathered some of its members, and others, to write a book on retirement planning.[8]

After being at The London Clinic as consultant surgeon, for over fifteen years, he wrote a book about the Clinic entitled History of the London Clinic: A Celebration of 75 Years.[9]

In 1965, White married Diana Bannister. They have a daughter, Phyllida, and son Charles.[1]

• "Surgery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries," in Victor Cornelius Medvei and J. L. Thornton (eds.), The Royal Hospital of Saint Bartholomew, 1123–1973. London: St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1974.
• The Greater Omentum. Springer Verlag, 1983. (Edited jointly with Dorothea Liebermann-Meffert & E. Vaubel)[10] ISBN 9783662023761
• A Colour Atlas of Omental Transposition for Advanced Breast Carcinoma. Wolfe Medical, 1987. ISBN 0815157533
• White, H (2002). "'For Merit'--in medicine". J R Soc Med. 95: 309–10. doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.6.309. PMC 1279920. PMID 12042385.
• A Century of International Progress and Tradition in Surgery: An Illustrated History of the International Society of Surgery. Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg, 2001. (Jointly with Dorothea Liebermann-Meffert) ISBN 3-922777-42-2
• A Career in Medicine: Do You Have What it Takes? Royal Society of Medicine Press (RSMP), London, 2000. (Editor) ISBN 9781853154621
• Retiring from Medicine: Do You Have What it Takes? RSMPs, London, 2002. (Editor) ISBN 1853155020
• A History of the London Clinic: A celebration of 75 years. RSMP, London, 2007. ISBN 9781853157127

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