Inspiring Physicians

Welcome to Inspiring Physicians, also known as Munk's Roll, our series of obituaries or biographies of fellows of the Royal College of Physicians, starting from 1518 to the present day.

Indexes

Volume I (1518-1700)

Volume II (1701-1800)

Volume III (1801 - 1825)

Volume IV (1826 - 1925)

Volume V (1926 -1965)

Volume VI (1966-1975)

Volume VII (1976-1983)

Volume VIII (1984-1988)

Volume IX (1989-1993)

Volume X (1994-1997)

Volume XI (1998-2004)

Volume XII (2005 onwards)

Featured

Joseph Orleans Mends Pobee

b.26 July 1930 d.10 July 2008 MB BS Lond(1961) MD MRCP(1967) FWACP(1976) FRCP(1977) FRCP Edin

Joseph Orleans Mends Pobee was professor of medicine at the University of Ghana, Accra. Born in the town of Cape...

Abdel Halim Mohamed Halim

b.10 April 1910 d.16 April 2009 DKSM FRCP(1962) Hon MD Khartoum(1965)

Abdel Halim Mohamed Halim, widely known as ‘Dr Halim’, was one of the most distinguished Sudanese doctors of his generation...

Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe

b.17 July 1933 d.15 June 2020 MB BS Lond(1958) DTM&H Liverp(1960) DPhil Oxon(1964) FRCP(1968) CON(1979) FAS (1980) NNOM(1997) CFR (2004) Hon DSc Ibadan

Oladipo Akinkugbe, often referred to as ‘Prof’ or ‘Baba’ (father), was a distinguished professor of medicine at the University of...

Muriel Simisola Buxton-Thomas

b.16 May 1945 d.16 October 2016 MB BS Newcastle(1971) MRCP(1974) MSc Lond(1978) FRCP(1989)

Muriel Buxton-Thomas, a consultant at King’s College Hospital, London, was an internationally-recognised physician in nuclear medicine who contributed actively to...

Thomas Ariba Ogada

b.12 January 1936 d.? 2002 MB ChB East Africa DTM&H MRCP(1972) FRCP(1982) FRCP Edin(1983)

Thomas Ariba Ogada was a former dean of the faculty of medicine, University of Nairobi, and Kenyan ambassador to the...

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