QUEEN SQUARE ALUMNUS ASSOCIATION

NEWSLETTER

NUMBER I

Objectives of the Association

To roster a collegiate spirit in people with commonneurological interests who have undergone trainingat Queen Square; to organise meetings of A)umni atappropriate International gathe~iGgs. and to encourageVi~lts by members to Queen Square. It is considereddesirable to have a central register of members andto Identify control individuals in major areas ofthe world. Drs. Steiner and Finkel are alrearly <ioingthis in Nor-th America. and Professor Sen has agreedlo be the representative for Asia. Control in<ilvidualsin Australasia, S. America etc. are still to beidenti ried.

RecepL}On for Queen Square Alurnn1 1n conlunction withthe American Academy of Neurology Meeting in Boston

A Reception and Dinner will be held for Queen SquareAlumni on Monday, 22nd Ap.::-ilat St.Boto)ph's Club. 199Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. The Reception will be from6.30 - 8.30 p.m., followed by Dinner. The pricefor cocktails only is $25 per head inclusive, andth(: C j ;~ncr tJr-ice is $40 per he.Jd. ;hese eve;;ts wi 1Ibe attended by several people from Queen Sguare.including Pr-ofesso£ Ian McDonald, Dr. David Lan<ionand Pat Harris.

On this occasion it 1S hoped tha~ there wilf be asmall display of Queen Sguare memoroabilia, with thepossibility of placing orders.

QUEEN SQUARE NEWS

DEATHS

Tt is with sadness that we record the following deaths:

Dr. Reginald E. Kellz

Dr. Kelly died on 5th September 1990, aged 73. Hewas formerly consultant neur-ologist ct Sl.Thomas'Hospital and the National Hospital Queen Square. andDean of the Institute of Neurology.

Professor william Blackwood

Professor Blackwood died on 3rd December 1990. aged79. lie was formerly head of the Department ofNeuropathology at Queen Squar-e.

Dr. Denis Williams

Dr.Denis Williams, former-ly Consultant Neurologistat Queen Square, died on 25th November- 1990.

RETIREMENTS

Or. P. C. Gautier-Smith

Consultant Physician 1962-89 and Dean of the Insti tute1975-82

Or. R. G. willison

COllsL;ltanl Neurophysiologist. dnrl hCcld of !.lIeOepal-tmenlof Clinical Neurophysiology from 197~-1989.

Dr. C. J. Earl

Consultant Neurologist 1958-1990.

Mr. Norman Grant

Consultant Neurosurgeon 1971-1990. Mr. Grant tookpremature retirement in 1990 due to ill health.

Professor Alan Davison

Head of the Miriam Marks Department of Neurosurgery1971-1990.

Miss P. L. Harris

Institute Registrar 1966-1989.

Dr.Patricia Painter

Consultant Anaesthetist 1968-1990.

APPOINTMENTS

We are delighted to recorrl the following prestigiousappointments:

Professor Lindsay Symon

President of the world Federation of NeurosurgicalSocieties for 4 years from October 1989.

Professor T. A. Sears

President of ~he European Neuroscier.ce Association.

Professor W. Ian McDonaldEd i tor 0 f'B RA IN'.

New Appointments at Queen Square

Chairman of the Miriam Marks Department of NeurochemIstryProfessor John B. Clark

Chair of Clinical NeurologyPro fe ss 0 rAn ita Ha,·din g

Senior Lecturers in the University Department ofClinical Neurology

Or. Niall QuinnOr. David MillerDr. Ph ilip Thompson

Consultant Neurologists

Dr. ran Ormerod. jointly with st. Thomas' HospitalDr. Gordon Plant. jointly with Moorfields Eye Hospital

and St. Thomas' Hospital.D,-. Alan Thompson, jointly with Whittington Hospital

and with responsibility for theRehabilitation Service :tQueen SquAre.

Consultant AnaesthetistDr. Martin Smith. with special responslbillty (or

the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.

Consultant NeurosurgeonMr. William Harkness

News of Queen Square l\lumni

President of the World Federation of NeurologyLord Walton of Detchant

Secretary-General of the World Federation of NeurologyDr. F. Clifford Rose

The following have been appointed to Chairs at U.K.Universities:

University of Birmingham - Adrian williamsUniversity of Cambridge - D. Alastair S. Compston.University of Cardiff - C. Mark WilesUniversity of Edinburgh - Charles P. WarlowUniversity of Glasgow - Peter G. KennedyUniversity of Oxford - John M. Newsom-Davis

HONOURS

In the New Year's Honours List, the C.B.E. was conferredon Professor P.K.Thomas.

OTHER Nf:WS

Professor Ian McDonald has received a grant of[1.500.000 from the Multiple Sclerosis Society forthe purchase and installation of a new 1.5 Tesla MRIScanner for the NMR Research Group. In additlon theexisting Tesla scanner sited in the Queen SquareEnterprise Scanner Unit in Examination Hall OueenSquare 1S being upgraded to 0.5 as a temporary measureand later to 1.5.

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between June an9 SeptemberInstitute of Neurology

1990 amount to L90a. 71 ').

A new Uro-Neurological Unit has been establ lshr'd <JtQueen Square and aims to provide a comprehenSIvecontinence advisory service. \Llis unit. situated Inthe Institute. is headed by Dr. ·Clare Fowler. ConsultantUro-neurologist.

Tavistock Surgical Intensive Therapy Unit.

The above unit was opened by Virginia Bottomley MP.the 1'1 in is te r for H Po a 1 th. 0 n 13th No vem ber I9 90 . Theequipment for the new seven bedded intensive careunit was funded by the Tavistock family in appreciationfor the care received by Lord Tavistock when he wasa patient at the National.

REDEVELOPMENT AT QUEEN SQUARE

A maJor redevelopment at Queen Square will foCI I ttatethe concentration of all clinical activities tlereby 1994. The refurbished Examination Hall on thewest side of the Square will be a temporarY,home tothe Outpatients Department. Pharmacy. Neuro-otologyand Psychology department while a new five storeybuilding rises on the Powis Place site adjacent toGreat Ormond Street Hospital. The new building willprovide four operating theatres. two intensive careunits. three neurosurgery wards. a neuroloqy wardand programmed investigation unit. a private patients'ward and out-patients' department.

The (30 million scheme has attracted (20 million ofGovernment funding and the remainder is beinq raisedfrom private sources in the first major funo-raisingprogramme organised by the Hospital for more thanSO years.

NAME CHANGE

The Hospital has been renamed the National Hospitalfor Neurology and Neurosurgery.

UPDATE m NEWSLETTERS

A very successful Reception for Queen Square Alumni was heldin Boston on Monday 22nd April. About 35 people attended, and we hadan excellent dinner at st. Botolph I s Club in Carrronwealth Avenue.Its success was very largely due to the hard work put in by thoseorganising the event, namely Dr. Shirley Wray, Dr. Robert Ackermanin Boston, Dr. John Steiner from Cincinnati, and Dr. Michael Finkelfrom Eau Claire.

PROFESSOR R. \-.,l. GI LLIA1T

It is with great sadness that we record the death of Ri:x.JerGj lliatt.He died in Washington on 19th August. In 1962 he was apppointedthe first Professor of clinical neurology at the Institute o[Neurology_ He was also honorary consultant to the MiddlesexHospital for rrore than 25 years and subsequently until hisretirement in1987 held a similar position at the Royal PostgraduateMedical SchCJOl and the Hamnersmith Hospital. On his retirementhe ,,"'asin\'ited to become Senior Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiologyat the National Institutes for Neurological Disease and Strokein Beths~ja, USA - a mark of the high international esteem in',.;hich he ,",'ashe ld .