The Douglas Adamson Memorial Award

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• (Award) DGA Memorial Award*: The Douglas Adamson Memorial Award was set up on 3 November 1979 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland, . Fund in memory of
  doctor
  A memorial fund has been set up to commemorate the contribution to medicine of one of the most outstanding physicians in Tayside for many years.
  Dr Douglas G. Adamson died in April while a consultant physician at Ninewells Hospital.
  When his death robbed patients and colleagues of a chance to pay tribute to him on retiral it was decided to set up a fund to provide a prize to the individual contributing most to patient care in Tayside.
  The prize will be awarded annually by the faculty of medicine of Dundee University.
  Dr Adamson was a native of Dundee and was educated at Morgan Academy. He graduated with distinction in medicine from St Andrews University
  For a time he was a lecturer at St Andrews University based at Dundee Royal Infirmary.¹
  
• (Award) DGA Memorial Award: The Douglas Adamson Memorial Award on 28 May 1980. PROFESSOR MITCHELL LADIES & GENTLEMEN
  I AM PLEASED TO HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SAY "THANK YOU" TO MANY PEOPLE. DOUGLAS' MEDICAL COLLEAGUES,PATIENTS. AND FRIENDS WHO HAVE GIVEN SO GENEROUSLY TO THE "MEMORIAL FUND". TO THE COMMITTEE, UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF PROFESSOR CROOKS FOR GIVING OF THEIR VALUABLE TIME TO ORGANIZE THIS AWARD AND TO THE FACULTY FOR AGREEING TO ADMINISTER IT. ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND FAMILY A MOST SINCERE "THANK YOU". MAY I FINISH WITH THE QUOTATION FOR DOUGLAS IN THE 1950-56 GRADUATES YEAR BOOK WHICH READS" ALL MEN ARE DUST BUT SOME ARE GOLD DUST". THANK YOU.¹
  

  L-R Graeme Adamson, Professor Mitchell, Kay Adamson, Dougal Adamson, Professor James Crooks

  
• (Award) DGA Memorial Award: The Douglas Adamson Memorial Award was awarded to Dr Mary Ross Kerr FRCP Edin in 1981 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland, . Dr Mary Ross Kerr, FRCP Edin
  Born: 05/01/1928
  Died: 04/02/2008
  Specialty: Infectious/ Communicable Diseases
  MB St And 1950,
  MRCP Edin 1959,
  FRCP Edin 1968
  (Compiled with information kindly supplied by her family)
  Mary Ross Kerr was born in Greenock and studied Medicine at St Andrews University (Queens College Dundee Medical School) where she proved to be a brilliant student, being awarded class medals in six subjects and the coveted medal for the most distinguished final year student.
  Much of her professional life was spent in King’s Cross Hospital, Dundee first as a junior doctor and eventually as a consultant in Communicable Diseases and Head of the Division of Communicable Diseases, Department of Medicine, Dundee University. In 1981 her work on Tayside was recognised when she was awarded the Douglas Adamson Memorial Award for “ Outstanding Contribution to Patient care in Tayside”.
  She was a keen lecturer and teacher ( medical students, post-graduates preparing for their MRCP.UK, paediatric and general nurses) as well as a researcher with close on 20 papers to her credit, on topics ranging from tuberculosis to hospital staphylococcus, sleeping sickness to mumps and Echo Virus infection.
  She was a Member of the Specialist Advisory Committee ( Communicable Diseases) 1980-83 and a Member of the National Council the British Society for the Study of Infection 1984-86.
  Her retirement saw her enjoying her interests in travel, photography, cooking, reading and knitting to which she added service in a charity shop and making stained glass.^2,1
  
• (Award) DGA Memorial Award: The Douglas Adamson Memorial Award was awarded to Dr Wilfred J Dally FSAS in June 1983 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland, . Doctor Wilfred J Dally, a general practitioner in Edzell, has been awarded the 1983 Douglas G Adamson Memorial Prize by the University of Dundee for an outstanding contribution to patient care in Tayside. The Award is the third annual award of the prize. Dr Dally moved to Edzell in 1957 where he has run, singled handled, a pratice of 1,800 patients. Dr Dally is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.^3,1
  
• (Award) DGA Memorial Award*: The Douglas Adamson Memorial Award was awarded to Joseph Block Neurosurgeon MRCS, FRCS, MBChB Cape Town, MCPS SA, FRCS Edin, MCM SA in 1985 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland, . PRESS RELEASE AND CONTACT ARTICLE
  Douglas G. Adamson Memorial Prize 1985
  
  Mr Joseph Block, the well known Consultant Neurosurgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary has been awarded the 1985 Douglas G. Adamson Memorial Prize in recognition of his contribution to patient care in Tayside.
  Mr Block, who is married with two daughters, was born in South Africa in 1921. He went to school in Bloemfontein and graduated with the degrees of MB ChB of the University of Capetown in 1943. He served as a volunteer in the South African Medical Corps during the last War and then came to the United Kingdom in 1947 for postgraduate studies, obtaining his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (England) in 1949. He studied neurosurgery in Edinburgh under Professor Norman Dott until 1955 then returned to South Africa and worked as the Senior Neurosurgeon at Baragwanath Hospital, a large African hospital near Johannesburg.
  After five years he returned to Britain and spent a year in the neurosurgical department in Belfast before coming to Dundee as the first Consultant Neurosurgeon appointed by the then Eastern Regional Hospital Board. He supervised the planning and building of the D.R.I. Neurosurgical Department which opened in 1966, and also its subsequent organisation and development.
  Mr Block is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and a member of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons. He served as a member of Tayside Health Board from 1973-1981 and, before that, on the Board of Management for Ninewells and associated hospitals.
  FND/ADM 3/5/85 JDMG/PM.¹
  
• (Award) DGA Memorial Award*: The Douglas Adamson Memorial Award was awarded to Dr William Fyffe Morrison Dorward on 23 May 1986 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland, . Top prize for doctor
  Dr W. Dorward.
  Dr W. Dorward, clinician in charge at Roxburghe House hospice in Dundee, has been awarded the 1986 Douglas G. Adamson Memorial Prize in recognition of his contribution to patient care in Tayside.
  Dr Dorward, who is married with a son and daughter, was born in 1928. He attended Dundee High School and graduated from Edinburgh University in 1951.
  After periods working in hospitals in Inverness and Bridge of Earn, Dr Dorward served with the R.A.M.C. for two years in Korea, Japan and Malaya. On his return from the services he became a principal in general practice in Dundee with his father, Dr W. Fyffe Dorward, and Dr Priscilla Turnbull.
  Dr Dorward remained with this practice for over 30 years, until December 1985, and was succeeded by his son, Dr David Dorward.
  During this time he established and developed his interests in a number of ways related to his practice, including the establishment of a diabetic clinic and also pioneering developments in the admission of patients from his own practice into hospital beds for which he himself had clinical responsibility.
  Dr Dorward is a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
  The prize is awarded annually on the basis of an outstanding contribution to patient care in Tayside. There have been five previous winners.¹
  
• (Award) DGA Memorial Award*: The Douglas Adamson Memorial Award was awarded to Dr William Kinnear Stewart consultant physician in 1988 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland, . Award for Dr Stewart
  DR WILLIAM K. STEWART, reader in the department of medicine at Dundee University and honorary consultant physician at Ninewells Hospital, has been awarded the 1988 Douglas G. Adamson Memorial Prize.
  Dr Stewart, a St Andrews graduate, was appointed senior lecturer in medicine in 1962 and since then his interests have centred on renal failure, modes of dialysis and related clinical problems.
  He undertook the development of a renal unit in Dundee and began the first maintenance haemodialysis in Tayside in the middle 1960s.
  The development of dialysis techniques in their various forms have been established at Dr Stewart's instigation.
  The unit has grown and now has upwards of 30 members of staff.
  The prize is awarded annually on the basis of an outstanding contribution to patient care in Tayside.¹
  
• (Award) DGA Memorial Award*: The Douglas Adamson Memorial Award was awarded to Dr Matthew Wilkinson FRCP Edin in 1991 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland, . DR MATTHEW WILKINSON, consultant physican (general medicine and rheumatology), Tayside Health Board, and honorary senior lecturer in medicine at Dundee University, has been awarded the 1991 Douglas G. Adamson Memorial Prize in recognition of his contribution to patient care in Tayside.
  Dr Wilkinson was educated at Cambridge University and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, London, graduating MB BChir from Cambridge in 1949 and MD in 1956.
  In 1972 he was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and, in 1984 a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
  After junior posts in St Bartholomew's Hospital, St Helier Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital, he was granted a Fulbright Travel Scholarship and undertook research for one year at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco.
  He then returned to further posts at Hammer smith and St Bartholomew's Hospitals before moving to Scotland in 1964.
  In that year he was appointed consultant physician (general medicine and rheumatology) with his main base at Bridge of Earn Hospital and remained there until 1972, when he moved to Dundee Royal Infirmary.
  In 1974 he moved his base to the new Ninewells Hospital and Medical School. He retired from practice in April 1991.
  His area of particular interest has been rheumatology and, apart from providing specialist patient care, he has carried out research and written textbooks on this.¹
  
• (Award) DGA Memorial Award*: The Douglas Adamson Memorial Award was awarded to Professor James David Edgar Knox FRCP Edin in 1993 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland, .¹
  
• (Award) DGA Memorial Award*: The Douglas Adamson Memorial Award was awarded to Mrs Fiona Paul in 2004 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland, . Douglas Adamson Memorial Award, 2004 for contributing to health care in Tayside, Patient Information Project and the ALERT training. From 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2004 Award £200.^4,1