Mark E. Silverman, MD, MACP, FRCP, FACC

J Mark Gibson MD FRCP FRCPI (1953-2010)

John Mark Gibson was born, in London, on Easter Sunday, 5 April 1953. His father, John Gibson was Professor of Mental Health at Queen’s University Belfast and his mother Emily, had been a nurse in London during the Blitz. Mark grew up in South Belfast, and attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Excelling academically, his diverse extracurricular activities included playing the doubl...

AA Jennifer Adgey MD, FRCP, FRCPI, FACC Introducion of the Calvert Lecture

Cecil Armstrong Calvert was well known to many and tragically in 1956 he was killed in a road accident in this country. In 1922 he graduated from this medical school with first class honours. His phenomenal yet effortless capacity for sustained mental and physical activity commanded respect and affection from all those who worked with him. He established the first neurosurgical department here ...

, MD , PhD TONI BRANSFORD , MD , FACC

Edwin Clarke, MD, FRCP (1919-1996).

James Patrick Watson MD, FRCP, FRCPsych

James (Jim) Watson, who died after a stroke on 3 August 2016 aged 80, was among a small band of British psychiatrists who trained in the 1960s and 70s to take psychiatry out of the asylums and establish robust services in general hospital and community settings. They were also responsible for developing a wide range of specialist mental health services. Jim was deeply committed to improving the...