1. Joseph Charles Stoddart was an English anaesthetist and intensive care specialist, who played a significant role in the development of intensive care in the UK.
13 Facts About Joseph Stoddart
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Joseph Stoddart spent most of his career at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he established one of the UK's earliest dedicated intensive care units in 1970.
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Joseph Stoddart was a founding member and early chair of the Intensive Care Society.
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Joseph Stoddart's father was a pharmacist who kept a chemist's shop.
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Joseph Stoddart did his national service in the RAF medical branch, including at the Institute of Aviation Medicine in Farnborough.
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Joseph Stoddart had encountered Edgar A Pask at the Institute of Aviation Medicine, and started working under him at the anaesthesia department of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the role of first assistant, which included managing patients undergoing intensive care.
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In 1967, after Pask's death, Joseph Stoddart became an intensive care and anaesthetics consultant at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, and remained in the position until his retirement in 1995.
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Joseph Stoddart was among the earliest consultants to run sessions entirely focusing on intensive care.
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Joseph Stoddart wrote a document explaining the purpose of the unit that was issued to all staff.
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In 1970, Joseph Stoddart was a founding member of the UK Intensive Care Society, and served as their second chairman.
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Joseph Stoddart was one of the organising committee of the inaugural World Congress on Intensive Care, held in London in 1974, which attracted around 2000 participants.
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Joseph Stoddart was acknowledged by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine as "one of the founding fathers" of the intensive care discipline in the UK, as well as among the "key pioneers" in the north of England by the North of England Intensive Care Society.
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Joseph Stoddart received the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, and was an elected fellow of FICM and an honorary life member of the Intensive Care Society.