Keith Sykes (anaesthetist)

Sir Keith Sykes
FFARCS, HonFANZCA, HonFCA (SA)
Born Malcolm Keith Sykes
1925 (age 92–93)
Nationality United Kingdom

Sir Malcolm Keith Sykes, FFARCS, HonFANZCA, HonFCA (SA) (born 1925), known as Keith Sykes, is a British consultant anaesthetist.

Sykes studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, then underwent training in anaesthetics while serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and at University College Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.[1]

In 1958, the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital as a lecturer in anaesthesia and consultant anaesthetist, becoming a reader there in 1967 and a professor of clinical anaesthesia in 1970.[1]

He joined the University of Oxford as Nuffield professor of anaesthetics in 1980 and became an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College in 1996.[1]

He is the author of books about the clinical measurement, treatment of respiratory failure, and the history of anaesthesia.[1]

A 1997 interview with him, by Lady Wendy Ball, is in Oxford Brookes' Medical Sciences Video Archive, catalogue number MSVA159.[1][2]

He was knighted in the 1991 Birthday Honours,[3] and has also been elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, (FFARCS), an Honorary Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthestists (HonFANZCA) and a Honorary Fellow of the College of Anaesthetists of South Africa (HonFCA (SA)).[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2011), History of British Intensive Care, c. 1950-c. 2000, Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, ISBN 978-0-902238-75-6 , Wikidata Q29581786
  2. ↑ "Professor Sir Keith Sykes". Oxford Brookes University. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "No. 52563". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1991. pp. 1–28.
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