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PROFESSOR THOMAS BASKETT
Tom Baskett was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and
educated at Belfast Royal Academy and the Queen’s
University of Belfast. He qualified in medicine in 1964
and did six years postgraduate training in surgery,
obstetrics and gynaecology, and general practice in
Northern Ireland. In 1970 he moved to Winnipeg, Canada,
as a clinical fellow and remained on staff at the
Winnipeg General Hospital. During this time he also
acted as travelling consultant to the Central Canadian
Arctic with the Northern Medical Unit of the University
of Manitoba. Since 1980, he has lived and worked in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he is a professor of
obstetrics and gynaecology at Dalhousie University.
He is a past president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
and of the Canadian Gynaecological Society. In 1977 he completed the Diploma in
the History of Medicine from the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London and
was awarded the Maccabean Prize and the Osler Medal. He was the 2008 History Fellow
of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He has published articles
and books on clinical obstetrics and gynaecology and on the history of medicine.
He is a past president of the Society of Obstetricians
and Gynaecologists of Canada and of the Canadian
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In 1977 he completed the Diploma in the History of
Medicine from the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of
London and was awarded the Maccabean Prize and the Osler
Medal. He was the 2008 History Fellow of the American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He has
published articles and books on clinical obstetrics and
gynaecology and on the history of medicine.
PROFESSOR LINDA CARDOZO
Linda Cardozo is Professor of Urogynaecology and Consultant
Gynaecologist at King’s College Hospital, London. She trained at
Liverpool University Medical School and qualified MBChB in 1974.
Thereafter she developed a special interest in urinary
incontinence at St George’s Hospital under the aegis of
Professor Stuart Stanton obtaining an MD in 1979 and her MRCOG
in 1980.
Following
her appointment as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in 1985 she continued
to develop her interest in all aspects of urogynaecology including the influence
of hormones on the lower urinary tract, conservative and surgical treatment of stress
incontinence, the patho-physiology and pharmacological treatment of detrusor overactivity
and the management of urogenital prolapse.
Professor Cardozo now heads a busy and productive tertiary referral urogynaecology
department at King’s College Hospital. She has a large clinical workload dealing
with complex urogynaecological problems in a supra-regional tertiary referral unit
teaching medical students, training junior doctors and undertaking clinical research.
Her publications include more than 300 original papers in peer review journals and
17 books. |
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Following her appointment as a Consultant Obstetrician and
Gynaecologist in 1985 she continued to develop her interest in
all aspects of urogynaecology including the influence of
hormones on the lower urinary tract, conservative and surgical
treatment of stress incontinence, the patho-physiology and
pharmacological treatment of detrusor overactivity and the
management of urogenital prolapse.
Professor Cardozo now heads a busy and productive tertiary
referral urogynaecology department at King’s College Hospital.
She has a large clinical workload dealing with complex
urogynaecological problems in a supra-regional tertiary referral
unit teaching medical students, training junior doctors and
undertaking clinical research. Her publications include more
than 300 original papers in peer review journals and 17 books.
Professor Cardozo is President of the Association of Chartered
Physiotherapists in Women's Health. She is also a Past President
of the International Urogynaecological Association, Past
President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the
Royal Society of Medicine. She was the founding Chairman of the
British Society of Urogynaecology and a Past Chairman of the
British Menopause Society and of the Education Committee of
International Continence Society. She is currently Vice Chairman
of the World Health Organisation International Consultation on
Incontinence.
PROFESSOR JAN DEPREST
Professor Jan Deprest has been a Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University Hospital Leuven, Belgium since 1991
and has been the Director of the Centre for Surgical Technologies since 2003. He
has been involved in numerous clinical and experimental research projects and more recently, has been involved in studies on diaphragmatic hernia and twins.
Jan Deprest is currently involved in the World Health Organisation Teaching Team
on endoscopic surgery, he is a member of the International Education Board for Certification
in Fetal Medicine and is an “expert advisor” at the Council of Belgian Medical Specialists. |
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DOCTOR DAVID GRIMES
David Grimes is one of a small number
of U.S. physicians Board certified in both obstetrics
and gynecology and in preventive medicine. He obtained
his undergraduate degree in biology from Harvard then
attended medical school as a Morehead Fellow at the
University of North Carolina. He completed his residency
in obstetrics and gynecology at that institution,
interrupted by two years at the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
Dr. Grimes has had a dual career in clinical ob/gyn
and in preventive medicine for the past three decades. He served as an epidemiologist
at the Centers for Disease Control for nine years.
He has also been a faculty member in four medical schools: Emory
University, University of Southern California, University of
California-San Francisco, and University of North Carolina.
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He has received teaching
awards from medical students and residents at each of these schools. Through the
auspices of the Berlex Foundation and Exxcellence Foundation Faculty Development
Courses, he has taught research methods to over 1500 obstetricians/gynecologists
in the U.S. Through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Family Health International, he has taught research methods to physicians and scientists in Kenya,
Ethiopia, India, Egypt, and Bangladesh. In 2002, he and colleague Kenneth F. Schulz,
Ph.D., M.B.A. authored an 11-part series on research methods in The Lancet. A second
installment of 5 additional articles appeared in The Lancet in 2005. These 16 essays
were published by Elsevier in 2006 (The
Lancet Handbook of Essential Concepts in Clinical Research).
Dr. Grimes’ research interests have focused on fertility
regulation, technology assessment, sexually transmitted
diseases, and clinical epidemiology. He has published over
320 peer-reviewed articles, fifty textbook chapters, and ten
books. In 1994, he received the Issue of the Year Award and
in 1997 the Distinguished Service Award from the American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. In 2006, he was
elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National
Academies of Science. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of
the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in
2007.
He currently serves as Vice President of Biomedical Affairs
at Family Health International and Clinical Professor in the
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UNC.
PROFESSOR GORDON SMITH
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Gordon CS Smith, MD PhD, is Professor and Head
of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, UK. He
studied at Glasgow University and graduated in Medicine in 1990. He trained in Obstetrics
& Gynaecology in Glasgow, obtaining sub-specialist accreditation in Maternal-Fetal
Medicine in 2001. He had two periods of full time Wellcome Trust clinical research
training fellowships: Glasgow University (1992-1993) and Cornell University, USA
(1996-1999). His clinically orientated research focuses on the use of maternal,
ultrasonic and biochemical data to determine associations with adverse pregnancy
outcome. He is the principle investigator in a prospective cohort study of unselected
first pregnancies. He has published over 90 peer reviewed papers in national and
international journals including Nature, NEJM, JAMA and Lancet. He is a Senior Investigator
of the National Institute for Health Research (UK) and a Clinical Professor in the
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UTMB Texas, USA. |
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