Keith Ross (surgeon)

Sir
Keith Ross
Bt, FRCS

Ross in June 1997
Born James Keith Ross
(1927-05-09)9 May 1927
Died 18 February 2003(2003-02-18) (aged 75)
Nationality United Kingdom
Occupation Consultant cardiac surgeon

Sir James Keith Ross, 2nd Baronet, FRCS (1927-2003), known as Keith, was a British consultant cardiac surgeon. He was one of the team who performed the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom.

Early life

Ross was born in London on 9 May 1927, the son of Sir James Paterson Ross, Surgeon to the Royal Household,[1] and Marjorie Burton Townsend, a former surgical ward sister at St Bartholomew's Hospital.[2]

He was educated at St Paul's School and qualified in medicine at Middlesex Hospital.[1]

Career

Ross worked as Senior Registrar at the Middlesex and Harefield Hospitals from 1961 to 1964 and then as a Consultant Surgeon at Harefield Hospital from 1964 to 1967.[3] He became Consultant Surgeon at the National Heart Hospital from 1967 to 1972.[3] On 3 May 1968, together with Donald Ross (no relation) and Donald Longmore, he performed the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom, which was also only the eleventh in the world.[3]

From 1972 to 1990 he was Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, for the Wessex Region, based at Southampton.[3]

A Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS), he served as a member of the Council of the RCS from 1986 to 1994 and as President of the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons in 1988.[3] He was chair of the RCS's Working Party on Cardiac Transplantation from 1990 to 1992.[3]

Personal life

Ross was an accomplished painter, who had pictures accepted for the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition on two occasions; selling both.[1]

Ross died in Southampton on 18 February 2003.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sir Keith Ross". The Scotsman. 13 March 2003.
  2. ↑ England, Royal College of Surgeons of. "Ross, Sir James Keith - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tilli Tansey; Lois Reynolds, eds. (1999), Early heart transplant surgery in the UK, Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, ISBN 978-1-84129-007-2, Wikidata Q29581627
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