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John Douglas Pickard CBE FRCS FMedSci (born 21 March 1946 [1]) is a British professor emeritus of neurosurgery in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of University of Cambridge. [2] [3] He is the honorary director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Healthcare Technology Cooperative (HTC) for brain injury. [4]
The Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre (WBIC) is a UK Biomedical Imaging Centre, located at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, England, on the Cambridge Bio-Medical Campus at the southwestern end of Hills Road. It is a division of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the University of Cambridge.
Addenbrooke's Hospital is a designated major trauma centre. [16] This was the first regional major trauma centre in England to become fully operational and was featured on the BBC documentary series 'Life Savers' in 2013. [4] Addenbrooke's Hospital is a tertiary referral centre for a number of specialities.
The Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination [2] was originally developed as a theoretically motivated extension of the mini–mental state examination (MMSE) [3] which attempted to address the neuropsychological omissions and improve the screening performance of the latter. [4]
Keith Black was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.His mother, Lillian, was a teacher and his father, Robert, was the principal at a racially segregated elementary school in Auburn, Alabama; prohibited by law to integrate the student body, Black's father instead integrated the faculty, raised standards, and brought more challenging subjects to the school.
The School of Clinical Medicine is the medical school of the University of Cambridge in England.The medical school is considered as being one of the most prestigious in the world, ranking as 1st in The Complete University Guide, [1] followed by Oxford University Medical School, Harvard Medical School, and Stanford School of Medicine and 2nd in the world in the 2023 Times Higher Education ...
Telemanipulators have been used for the first time in neurosurgery, in the 1980s. This allowed a greater development in brain microsurgery (compensating surgeon’s physiological tremor by 10-fold), increased accuracy and precision of the intervention. It also opened a new gate to minimally invasive brain surgery, furthermore reducing the risk ...
According to The Economist, this memoir is "so elegantly written it is little wonder some say that in Mr Marsh neurosurgery has found its Boswell". [10] It has been translated into 37 languages. In 2017, Marsh published Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon , a second memoir with Weidenfeld & Nicolson , an imprint of Orion .