Philip Caves attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and then studied medicine at Queen's University Belfast, from which he graduated with a MB BCh in 1964.
10 Facts About Philip Caves
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Philip Caves achieved the DObst RCOG in 1966 and the FRCS for Edinburgh in 1968.
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Philip Caves travelled to Edinburgh in 1974 to become senior lecturer in the Department of Clinical Surgery, where he was active in new techniques in coronary artery surgery in newborns and infants.
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Philip Caves held the first chair of cardiac surgery at the University of Glasgow in 1975, and contributed to the development of the adult and paediatric cardiac surgical service for the west of Scotland.
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Philip Caves was a left-handed surgeon who worked with specially designed left-handed instruments.
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Shumway made sure that Philip Caves took his left-handed tools with him on return to Scotland.
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Amongst colleagues, Philip Caves is thought to have been the most likely surgeon to have started the UK's first heart transplant program had he lived.
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Philip Caves was influential in the careers of future pioneering surgeons including John Wallwork, who joined Papworth Hospital's Heart transplant programme in 1981 and was experienced in the use of cyclosporin after heart transplant whilst a chief resident at Stanford, under Shumway.
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Philip Caves's lecturing skills were highly regarded and sought after.
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Philip Caves was a religious man who was an active practising Christian, supporting his church.