13 Facts About Bryan Jennett

William Bryan Jennett was a British neurosurgeon, a faculty member at the University of Glasgow Medical School, and the first full-time chair of neurosurgery in Scotland.

Bryan Jennett was the co-developer of the assessment tool known as the Glasgow Coma Scale and made advancements in the care of patients with brain injuries.

Bryan Jennett was born and raised in Twickenham to Irish and Scottish parents.

Bryan Jennett was evacuated from Twickenham during the Second World War.

Bryan Jennett finished top of his year and was President of the national British Medical Students Association.

Bryan Jennett went on to take posts at Oxford, Cardiff and Manchester as well as a spell in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Bryan Jennett believed that the NHS at the time placed too much emphasis on patronage and were not supportive of academic interests.

Bryan Jennett set up a prospective computerised data bank to collect the features and outcome of head injuries.

Bryan Jennett was in demand as a speaker and in the UK contributed to medical panels and was called to Court as an expert witness, most notably for the Tony Bland case.

Bryan Jennett was Dean of Medicine at Glasgow in the 1980s.

Bryan Jennett worked with Barbara Stocking and Chris Ham of the King's Fund to establish a series of Consensus Conferences to deal with the appropriate use of high-cost medical technology.

Bryan Jennett's continuing work included a 2002 monograph, The Vegetative State, and his final publication appeared in the British Journal of Neurosurgery in 2008.

Bryan Jennett died a few weeks after that final publication, having been diagnosed with multiple myeloma five years earlier.