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Roger Malcolm Greenhalgh (6 February 1941 – 6 October 2023) was a British surgeon, researcher and educator best known for his contributions to the field of vascular surgery. He was emeritus Professor of Surgery at Imperial College London in London, England and Head of the Imperial College Vascular Surgery Research Group at the time of his death. Greenhalgh was also the founder and chair of the Charing Cross Symposium between 1978 and 2023. He played a significant role in the formation of the European Society for Vascular Surgery, and is credited with being an early adopter of the concept of large-scale, randomised clinical trials, helping to establish them as a means for evaluating surgical techniques. Early life and education Roger M. Greenhalgh was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, in the East Midlands of England on February 6, 1941 to (Major) John Greenhalgh and Phyllis Poynton. At the time of his birth, Greenhalgh's father was working in the police force in Derbyshire before being recruited to military service in India early on in the Second World War. After attending Holy Trinity Infant School and Granby Junior School in Ilkeston, Greenhalgh attended Ilkeston Grammar School, a state secondary school to which entry was dependent on gaining a scholarship through an 11-plus examination. Having originally intended to train as an engineer, he followed the advice of his headmaster, who suggested he should consider medicine as a career. Medical school and postgraduate training Greenhalgh was the first in his family to attend university, enrolling at Clare College, Cambridge, in 1960. Within a term of Greenhalgh arriving at Clare College, his medical tutor Gordon Wright predicted that Greenhalgh would go on to become a surgeon. Greenhalgh graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1963, before going on to achieve Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Master of Surgery (MChir) degrees, qualifying as an honorary doctor in December 1966. Greenhalgh began his postgraduate career at St Thomas' Hospital in London, becoming house surgeon and then senior house officer between 1967 and 1969. He went on to gain additional experience working at St Mary's Hospital in Colchester, England until 1972, at which point Gerard Taylor requested that he should join St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. Greenhalgh trained as a senior registrar and lecturer at St Bartholomew's Hospital from 1972 to 1976, and won the prestigious Moynihan Fellowship of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland during this time, in 1974, using the £1,000 award he received to visit a number of vascular centres around the world. Career in surgery Greenhalgh was appointed surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital in London in September 1976, three years after the hospital's new site on Fulham Palace Road had been opened by Queen Elizabeth II. Between 1976 and 1981, Greenhalgh was an honorary consultant and senior lecturer in surgery at Charing Cross Hospital's Medical School. In October 1981, when he was 40 years old, Greenhalgh was made Professor of Surgery at Charing Cross Hospital, ultimately succeeding Professor Harding Rains, the hospital's first Chair of Surgery, and working as Head of Department up to 1984. From 1984, a merger between the medical schools of Charing Cross Hospital and Westminster Hospital in London, leading to the establishment of the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. As Dean and Principal of this new entity from 1993 to 1997, Greenhalgh later oversaw a successful merger with Imperial College London. He also remained as Professor and Chair of Surgery at Charing Cross Hospital up to 2006, at which point he became Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Imperial College London - a title he held until his death in 2023. In addition, Greenhalgh was Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Surgery and Cancer during his time at Imperial College London. Greenhalgh’s skill as a clinician led to the White House selecting him as the surgeon who would operate on President George H. W. Bush, if needed, during his visit to London in 1991. In 2018, Janet Powell, one of his closest research collaborators from Imperial College London, said of Greenhalgh that "medical students and junior doctors have queued for the opportunity to work in his team". Greenhalgh cited Peter Martin and James Calnan, two surgeons he worked with at Hammersmith Hospital in the late 1960s, as key influences in his decision to pursue a career in vascular surgery, and in his initial interest in clinical research. He also learned from and was influenced by vascular surgery pioneers including Frank Cockett, Gerard Taylor, Michael DeBakey, Edward Diethrich, Denton Cooley, and Jesse Thompson. Research contributions Greenhalgh’s research endeavours began with an interest in hyperlipidaemia when he was a resident. This saw him assess the role played by serum lipids and lipoproteins in peripheral artery disease (PAD) as lead author of a 1971 publication in The Lancet. Greenhalgh went on to make a number of research contributions on the causes and management of aneurysmal arterial disease, including as a leading investigator for the UK Small Aneurysm Trial (UKSAT), which was the first trial to establish a size-based threshold for the open surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) and has been supported by multiple subsequent clinical studies. Greenhalgh was also principal investigator for the endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) randomised controlled trials, EVAR 1 and 2, which enrolled hundreds of patients from hospital across the United Kingdom and sought to establish the role of EVAR - a minimally invasive alternative to open surgery - in the treatment of AAAs. The most recent update from EVAR 1, which was published in The Lancet in 2016 and analysed 15-year clinical follow-up data from more than 1,200 patients, saw Greenhalgh and his fellow investigators conclude that "EVAR has an early survival benefit but an inferior late survival compared with open repair, which needs to be addressed by lifelong surveillance of EVAR and re-intervention if necessary". Other notable trials for which Greenhalgh was a leading investigator include the Mild to Moderate Intermittent Claudication (MIMIC), Vein Graft Surveillance (VGST) and Immediate Management of the Patient With Rupture: Open Versus Endovascular Repair (IMPROVE) trials. He also spent much of his career researching the effect of tobacco smoke on the management and treatment of arterial disease. Greenhalgh has co-published more than 300 original papers spanning several areas within vascular surgery, including venous, carotid, peripheral and aortic diseases. Charing Cross Symposium In 1978, during the early days of his time at Charing Cross Hospital, Greenhalgh founded and created the Charing Cross (CX) Symposium - a small, annual medical forum focusing predominantly on research and education in vascular surgery that drew roughly 100 delegates at the time of its inception. C.... Discover the Elizabeth Greenhalgh popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Elizabeth Greenhalgh books.