1. Terence English was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, to Mavis and Arthur English.
20 Facts About Terence English
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Arthur English died from silicosis when Sir Terence was two years old.
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Terence English went to Parktown Preparatory School for boys in Johannesburg and at the age of ten was sent to board at Cordwallis school in Pietermaritzburg and in 1946 completed his schooling at Hilton College in Natal.
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Terence English applied to Guy's Medical School and was accepted by the Dean, George Houston providing he finished his engineering degree successfully.
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Terence English did this and George Houston was later to play a key role in English's career when he agreed to readmit him after he had resigned during the 2nd year of his studies.
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In 1961, Terence English captained the Guy's 1st XV team when they won the Rugby Inter-Hospitals Cup.
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Terence English made a working visit with Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in South Africa.
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Three months after the moratorium on heart transplantation, Terence English became inspired by a visit to his friend Philip Caves, at Stanford University, who had developed the technique of transvenous endomyocardial biopsy to detect acute organ rejection at an early stage, and was then Chief Resident in Shumway's unit.
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In preparation for this Terence English did some open heart surgery at Addenbrooke's Hospital and became involved with Roy Calne's pig heart transplant research.
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Subsequently, Terence English embarked on his own research at Huntingdon Research Centre directed towards defining the best way of preserving myocardial function during the period of anoxia between the heart's removal from the donor and its transplantation into the recipient.
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Terence English was received politely when the TAP met in January 1978 but was later informed that there was no funding for a heart transplant programme and they did not want to see any one-off operations.
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However, Terence English managed to obtain permission from the Chairman of Cambridge Health Authority to use his facilities at Papworth for two transplants and after the first failed in January 1979, the second in August 1979 was successful and the patient Keith Castle lived for over five years.
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Terence English carried on with developing the heart transplant programme and became Director of the British Heart Foundation Transplant Research Unit at Papworth.
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Terence English performed the first total artificial heart transplant in the UK in November 1986.
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Terence English was involved with establishing the annual UK cardiac surgical register in 1978 which provided annual 30 day mortality statistics for all cardiac operations from every cardiac surgical unit in the UK and Ireland.
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In 1981, Terence English was elected to the Royal College of Surgeon's Council, following which, in 1989, he became president.
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Terence English regretted the increasing bureaucracy of performance assessment exercises that the academic staff were being subjected to.
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Terence English has been an elected trustee of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons since 1994.
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Terence English became Principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford and they continue to live in Oxford.
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Terence English has continued to be active since retiring, participating in.