John Goligher

John Cedric Goligher (1912–1998) was a British surgeon who specialised in diseases of the rectum and colon and in coloproctology.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He was "renowned worldwide"[1] and had "a national and international reputation"[5] He is considered to have been "one of the preeminent clinical investigative surgeons" of his time.[4]

Early life

John Cedric Goligher was born on 13 March 1912 in Derry, Ireland.[2][4][5][6][3] He was educated at Foyle College.[2][5][n 1] He went on to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh where he qualified with the MB ChB degree in 1934.[2][3][4][5][6][1]

Career

Goligher studied at the University of Edinburgh where he attained postgraduate qualifications as a surgeon (MRCS) in 1938, and attained his professional fellowship qualifications the same year (FRCS and FRCSEd).[1][2][3][5][6] He attained his Master of Surgery qualification nine years later in 1947 (ChM).[1][2][3][5][6][8] His career began at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.[1][2][4][5][6] During World War II he worked first at St Mark's Hospital[1][2][3][4][5][6] and then for five years (from 1941) in the Royal Army Medical Corps.[1][2][5][6] After the war, he worked at St Mary's Hospital in London.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He left London in 1955 to take up a post as Professor of Surgery at the University of Leeds and Director of the Professorial Surgical Unit at Leeds General Infirmary.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He worked at Leeds until his retirement in 1978.[4][9]

Professional bodies and societies

Goligher was a member of the following professional bodies:

Fellowships and memberships

Goligher was a member or fellow of numerous British and foreign medical societies and organisations:[4]

Lectures

Goligher was in great demand as a lecturer, giving over 20 named lectures during his lifetime.[5][n 2]

Later life

Goligher retired to Wetherby[4] in West Yorkshire where he established a successful private practice.[5] He died aged 85 on 18 January 1998.[2][3]

Honours and awards

Goligher's honours and awards include the following:

Goliger also received honorary doctorates from: Queen's University Belfast,[5] the University of Gothenburg,[5][16][17] the University of the Republic (Uruguay),[5] and the University of Hull.[18]

Legacy

The John Goligher Colorectal Surgery Unit at Leeds Hospital is named after Goligher.[19] Memorial medals and lectures have been named for him.[20] The Goligher retractor is named for him.[21]

Works

  • Surgery of the Anus, Rectum and Colon (1961), second edition in 2000[22]
  • Ulcerative Colitis (1968)[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Goligher was President of the Foyle College Old Boys' Association for the academic year 1978-9.[7]
  2. ^ An example of such a lecture is: Goligher, J. C.; Visceral and parietal sutures in abdominal surgery. Guest Oration. 16th Annual Meeting, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, San Antonio, Texas, 1975.[11]
  3. ^ Goligher's award was made "for his original and distinguished contributions to clinical surgery, which have been influential throughout the field of gastrointestinal surgery but especially in the treatment of colorectal carcinoma and ulcerative colitis".[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "BSG Golden Jubilee 1937–87: John Goligher: President 1975–6". Gut. 28 (supplement). British Society of Gastroenterology: 32. September 1987. PMC 3260681.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Professor John Goligher". The Times. No. 66126. London. 16 February 1998. p. 23.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Losowsky, Monty Seymour (20 June 1998). "John Cedric Goligher". British Medical Journal. 316 (7148): 1908. doi:10.1136/bmj.316.7148.1908. PMC 1113383. PMID 9632432.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Shampo, Marc A. (January–February 2001). "A Cohort of Three Early Colorectal Surgeons: Goligher, Ravitch, and Nigro". Journal of Pelvic Surgery. 7 (1): 8–10.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w "Goligher, John Cedric (1922 - 1998)". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. The Royal College of Surgeons of England. 30 October 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Campos, Fábio Guilherme; Nahas, Sérgio Carlos; Cecconello, Ivan (August 2016). "The life of John Cedric Goligher (1912-1998) revisited". Journal of Medical Biography. 24 (3): 380–383. doi:10.1177/0967772014532896. PMID 24972616. S2CID 42025654.
  7. ^ "Old Boys' Magazine" (PDF). Foyle College. 2016. p. 85.
  8. ^ Goligher, John (1948). Cancer of the rectum and rectosigmoid.
  9. ^ University of Leeds, Calendar, 1961/62, page 191
  10. ^ "Honorary Fellows of the American College of Surgeons". American College of Surgeons. Archived from the original on 24 December 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  11. ^ Goligher, J. C. (1976). "Visceral and parietal sutures in abdominal surgery". The American Journal of Surgery. 131 (2): 130–140. doi:10.1016/0002-9610(76)90086-6. PMID 766653.
  12. ^ Goligher, J. C. (May 1979). "Bradshaw lecture, 1978. Recent trends in the practice of sphincter-saving excision for rectal cancer". Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 61 (3): 169–76. PMC 2492785. PMID 485045.
  13. ^ "Honorary Graduates 1904-2016" (pdf). University of Leeds. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  14. ^ a b "College and Faculty news" (PDF). Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 63 (3): 223. May 1981. PMC 2493931.
  15. ^ Goligher, J. (May 1984). "The Skeptical Chirurgeon". Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 66 (3): 207–210. PMC 2492557. PMID 6372628.
  16. ^ Olsson, Claes-Olof (2007). Hedersdoktorer vid Göteborgs universitet under 100 år 1907-2007 [Honorary Doctors at the University of Gothenburg for 100 years from 1907 to 2007] (PDF) (in Swedish). University of Gothenburg. ISBN 9789173603546. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 January 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  17. ^ "Hedersdoktorer i bokstavsordning" [Honorary doctorates in alphabetical order] (in Swedish). Göteborgs universitet. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  18. ^ "Honorary degrees". Times Higher Education. 14 February 1997. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  19. ^ "John Goligher Colorectal Surgery Unit". The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  20. ^ Corman, Marvin L. (September 1999). "John C. Goligher Memorial Lectureship: Traditions, trials, and treatises". Diseases of the Colon & Rectum. 42 (9): 1130–1135. doi:10.1007/BF02238563. PMID 10496551. S2CID 71380784.
  21. ^ Konje, Justin (2009). SAQs, MCQs, EMQs and OSCEs for MRCOG Part 2, Second edition: A comprehensive guide. CRC Press. p. 1434. ISBN 9781444121278.
  22. ^ Mortensen, N. (1 October 2001). "Surgery of the Anus, Rectum, and Colon". Gut. 49 (4). British Society of Gastroenterology: 598. doi:10.1136/gut.49.4.598a. PMC 1728477.

Further reading

  • Corman, Marvin L. (April 1998). "John Cedric Goligher March 13, 1912–January 18, 1998". Diseases of the Colon & Rectum. 41 (4): 522–524. doi:10.1007/BF02235770. S2CID 71980527.
  • Corman, Marvin L. (September 1999). "John C. Goligher Memorial Lectureship: Traditions, trials, and treatises". Diseases of the Colon & Rectum. 42 (9): 1130–1135. doi:10.1007/BF02238563. PMID 10496551. S2CID 71380784.