UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18219, 1 November 1924, Page 18

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO.

NEW PROFESSOR OF SURGERY. Dr. F. Gordon Bell, who Ims been appointed Professor of Surgery at the Otago University, is a New Zealander by birth, and received his early education at the Marlborough College. He U a graduate of Edinburgh University., and a Fellow of the Royal College of' Surgeons of England, and recently passed the examination for the Fellowship of the Rcyal College of Surgeons of .Edinburgh. He at present holds the posts of tutor in clinical surgery, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and of assistant in the department of systematic surgery, Edinburgh. University. He graduated as Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at Edinburgh University in 1910, and was awarded the Ettles Scholarship as tho most distinguished graduate of the year. He was medallist on numerous occasions _in various classes, including systematic surgery, and was twice prizeman in the classes of clinical surgery in the Royal Infirmary. He also gained the Grierson Bursary in anatomy and physiology, and the Vans Dunlo'p Scholarship in anatomy—one of the most ctweted prizes offered by the University. He graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1913, and for his thesis, embodying the results of an original research on the_ development and histology of the occipital region of the "brain, was awarded the Goodsir Memorial Fellowship for the beat anatomical and physiological thesis submitted. He passed the examination for the London Conjoint Qualification (M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R-.C.P.Lond.) in 1913, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the same year. In 1912 he was appointed house surgeon to Professor Alexis Thomson in the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and later, for successive periods of six months, served as resident surgical officer to the Liverpool Stanley and to the Salfcrd Royal Hospitals. In both these latter posts, as senior resident, lie had the opportunity of per-forming-a considerable amount of major operative surgery, and in addition to the general surgical work was resident in charge of the gynaecological and children's wards. He served in the R.A.M.C. for four years. For nearly the whole of that period he was oh active senvice with the 8.E.F., France, first as surgical specialist to a base hcspital and for the last three years of the war as surgical specialist to a casualty clearing station. For hie work in this latter capacity he was awarded the Military Cross in the New Year's honours of 1917, and was again mentioned in despatches in March, 1919. The responsible post of specialist to th© highly developed casualty clearing station of the latter period of tho war involved the surgical control of a large hospital, and the performance of a great many operations on the abdominal thoracic, and cranial cavities.