Patrick Clarkson published extensively in textbooks and journals, lectured widely on burns in children and founded the Hand Club.
11 Facts About Patrick Clarkson
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Patrick Clarkson received his basic education at Christ's College, New Zealand, subsequently studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, after which he entered Guy's Hospital Medical School on a scholarship.
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Patrick Clarkson won the Treasurer's Gold Medal in medicine and surgery and completed the Conjoint Diploma in 1935, subsequently qualifying with the FRCS a year later, and then MBBS in 1940.
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Patrick Clarkson spent 1935 and 1936 at Guy's doing his house jobs and then becoming a teacher in surgery between 1937 and 1939.
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In 1946, Patrick Clarkson was Hunterian Professor and Leverhulme Research Scholar at the Royal College of Surgeons, later becoming an FDS examiner.
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In 1952, the needs of burned airmen after the war encouraged Patrick Clarkson to initiate the establishment of the Hand Club, a precursor idea for the later British Society for Surgery of the Hand.
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Patrick Clarkson published extensively in textbooks and journals, mainly on hand surgery and on the treatment of burns, and developed international recognition for his work.
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Patrick Clarkson's contributions included the 1962 book The general and plastic surgery of the hand, co-authored with AD Pelly.
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Patrick Clarkson became visiting professor of plastic surgery at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, in 1963 and 1964 respectively.
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Whilst at Guy's in 1962, Patrick Clarkson described three people with breast hypoplasia and joining of fingers.
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Patrick Clarkson took early retirement due to poor health, but continued to lecture, write and travel.