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2 unusual facts about Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital


Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital

The London School of Tropical Medicine was established here in October 1899, by Sir Patrick Manson with assistance from the British Secretary of State for the Colonies (Joseph Chamberlain).

The Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital was a hospital provided by the Seamen's Hospital Society for the care of ex-members of the Merchant navy, the fishing fleets and their dependents.


Addenbrooke's Hospital

The hospital was founded in 1766 on Trumpington Street with £4,500 from the will of Dr John Addenbrooke, a fellow of St Catharine's College.

Alan Carr

In 2010, Carr took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, filmed live at the O2 Arena in London on 30 March.

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

During the 1990s it was featured in the BBC television series Children's Hospital.

Alfred Theodore MacConkey

MacConkey, the son of a West Derby minister, studied medicine at Cambridge and Guy's Hospital.

Andrew Dent

Returning to Australia in 1995, he became a member of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine, was admitted as a Fellow of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine and became Director of Emergency at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne.

Daniel Cleary

Later that day, Cleary brought the Cup to the Janeway Children's Hospital.

Edwin Trevathan

• Fellow in Neurophysiology & Epilepsy, 1986–87, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Flor Muñoz Rivas

She works mainly at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, she does also go to other big hospitals to work.

Hedley Atkins

Sir Hedley John Barnard Atkins KBE (30 December 1905 – 26 November 1983) was the first professor of surgery at Guy's Hospital and President of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Henry Stallard

As Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, he pioneered cobalt plaque radiotherapy for the treatment of ocular tumours, particularly in children.

Horley

In 1602 it became the property of Christ's Hospital in London and the original map of the manor is now held at the Guildhall in the City of London.

Humphrey Verdon Roe

Before he met his wife, Roe had attempted to found a birth control clinic in Manchester, offering to finance St Mary's Hospital for the purpose.

Joe Banner

In 2001, Banner received a "PARTNERS Leadership Award" from the University of Pennsylvania for his extensive community service, including volunteer activities reading to students in the Boston public schools and spending time with severely ill children in the Boston Children's Hospital.

John Vicars

John Vicars (1582, London-12 April 1652, Christ's Hospital, Greyfriars, London) was an English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War.

Leah LaBelle

In October 2004, LaBelle collaborated on a record album, Volume 7 of "Christmas in the Northwest" featuring singers and songwriters from the Pacific Northwest to benefit Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Centers in Seattle, Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland and Children's Miracle Network in Spokane.

Lewin's Mead

The 13th century St Bartholomew's Hospital which became Bristol Grammar School in the 16th century is situated at the bottom of Christmas Steps.

Manchester Royal Infirmary

Other teaching hospitals which are part of the same NHS trust are: St Mary's Hospital, Manchester (founded 1790), the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (1814), and the University Dental Hospital of Manchester (1884); Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (1829).

Mark Field

He has run local campaigns on business rates, St Bartholomew's Hospital, assisting the creative industries, the control of rickshaws in the West End, social housing rent rises, the independence of the City of London Police and in July 2011 successfully argued in Parliament for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport's continuing control of the Royal Parks.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering

Started in 2002 with a $50 million grant from the U.S. Army, the Institute works with a corsotium of firms, including Raytheon, DuPont and Brigham and Women's Hospital, to develop new technologies in support of the Future Force Warrior system.

Medical slang

There is an annual round-up of the usage of medical slang by British physician Dr. Adam Fox of St Mary's Hospital, London.

Michael W. Vannier

On July 19, 1983, M. Vannier (Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St. Louis) and his co-workers J. Marsh (Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Deformities Institute, St. Louis Children's Hospital) and J. Warren (McDonnell Aircraft Company) published the first three-dimensional reconstruction of single CT slices of the human head.

Mount Saint Mary's Hospital

The system expanded in 2002 with the addition of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet Health System.

In 2000, the Daughters of Charity merged with the Sisters of St. Joseph to create Ascension Health.

Nicholson Street, Melbourne

Just to the north lie the Royal Exhibition Building and the Melbourne Museum, both in Carlton Gardens, and St Vincent's Hospital.

Northern Busway, Brisbane

The busway then continues north alongside the Exhibition railway line and then north-east through the Victoria Park Golf Complex, with stations adjacent to the Normanby Fiveways, the QUT campus at Kelvin Grove and the Royal Children's Hospital in the suburb of Herston.

Queen Elizabeth's Hospital

In addition, the school choir often sings Council Prayers at the Lord Mayor's Chapel on College Green, where school founder John Carr is buried.

Raymond Etherington-Smith

Etherington-Smith trained in medicine and became a demonstrator of anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, having held the residential appointments, including that of House Surgeon.

Sarah Solovay

"Gone" was also featured in Children's Hospital in addition to being featured on the NBC TV Show "Outlaw" in the Fall, 2010.

Scientastic!

Included are interviews with doctors, scientists and researchers at UPMC Children's Hospital, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the National Aviary and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

SEPTA Route 15

After entering Francisville, Route 15 loops partially around the south side of Girard College, but rejoins Girard Avenue again, and passes by St. Joseph's Hospital.

Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital

It is a granite faced building that is said to have been influenced by George Papworth.

St Andrew's Hospital

Thomas Octavius Prichard was appointed as the hospital’s first medical superintendent: he was one of the pioneers of "moral management", the humane treatment of the mentally ill.

St Ann's Hospital

The hospital has until recently been largely a mental health care facility; however, it now also provides outpatient services, which include MRI and ophthalmological services.

St Augustine's Hospital, Chartham

In 1972, when the hospital was under the leadership of medical superintendent John Ainslie, a post-doctorate researcher in chemistry called William Ankers (from the nearby University of Kent) obtained a temporary job as a nursing assistant.

St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne

It is one of the clinical schools at the University of Melbourne (the others being based at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Austin Hospital, Western Hospital, the Northern Hospital, Epping, Goulburn Valley Health, Ballarat Base Hospital and Northeast Health).

Initially conceived as a branch of the Sydney institution of the same name the hospital was intended to be a charitable institution, which was hoped would help bolster Melbourne's minimal health care.

St. Luke's Hospital, Rathgar

to create cancer treatment centres of excellence in St. James's and Beaumont Hospitals.

St. Paul's Hospital, Ethiopia

The St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa is the second largest hospital in Ethiopia.

Terrell Peterson

The case came to light when Terrell was brought to the emergency room of Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital in Atlanta in cardiac arrest, where he subsequently died.

Texas Children's Hospital

David Poplack, M.D. — Director, Texas Children's Cancer Center, Professor of Pediatrics.

Thomas Horder, 1st Baron Horder

Horder began his career at St Bartholomew's Hospital and, when still quite young, successfully made a difficult diagnosis on King Edward VII which made his reputation.

Trent FM

Launched on 3 July 1975 as Radio Trent and based in the converted Nottingham Women's Hospital at 29-31 Castle Gate, Nottingham, the station broadcast on FM and medium wave.

Utkan Demirci

Utkan Demirci is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Vamsi Mootha

He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and then pursued postdoctoral training at the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research.

Violet Gibson

She spent the rest of her life in a mental asylum, St Andrew's Hospital in Northampton.

Warren Tredrea

Tredrea donated the proceeds of the 2004 3AW Player of the Year award to the Women's and Children's Hospital.

WIBW-FM

Additionally, interviews will be conducted with “ambassador families” during the telethon, telling how they benefited from the St. Jude's Hospital.

William Valentine Mayneord

He entered the field of medical physics in 1924 at St Bart's Hospital in London.

York Bluecoat School

The blue coats worn by the boys were based on the uniform of Christ's Hospital School in Greyfriars, London.


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