Dr Jeffrey Roger Maltby
21/09/1937 - 2025
Place of birth: Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Nationality: British
Post nominals:
BA MB BChir MA FFARCS FRCP(C) DRCOG
CRN: 548544
Also known as: Roger
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General education |
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Leighton Park School Trinity Hall University of Cambridge London Hospital Medical College |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MC BChir, University of Cambridge, 1962 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Examination |
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Year of Fellowship |
1968 |
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Other qualification(s) |
BA, University of Cambridge, 1958 MA, University of Cambridge, 1965 DRCOG, 1965 FRCP(C), Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada, 1971 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
After graduation Maltby was a casualty officer at the London Hospital and house officer at St John’s Hospital in Chelmsford, followed by Edgware General Hospital, where he next had a job in obstetrics. In 1964 he was a senior house officer at Newcastle upon Tyne General Hospital until July, when he entered general practice in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, moving to two practices in Alberta, Canada in July 1965. Deciding to specialise in anaesthesia, he returned to England to an SHO post at United Sheffield Hospitals starting in February 1967, followed by City Hospital, Nottingham. From February 1968 to June 1969 he was a registrar in anaesthesia at United Sheffield Hospitals. Returning to Canada, through July to December 1969 he was a resident in internal medicine at Colonel Belcher Hospital, Calgary, next senior resident in anaesthesia at Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, and then locum staff anaesthetist at Rockyview Hospital, Calgary. From October 1970 he worked as an anaesthetist at Foothills Hospital in Calgary - first as a staff anaesthetist, promoted to Associate Professor in the University of Calgary in July 1984, and full Professor by 1995. On retirement about 2004 he was granted the status of Professor Emeritus.
Professional interests and activities
He was a member of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland, the Canadian Anaesthetists’ Society (CAS), the History of Anaesthesia Society, and the Anesthesia History Association. For the CAS he was Chairman of the Archives Committee for 1977-80. In 1985 he was visiting professor to Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal helping to establish a local Diploma in Anaesthesiology. Most notable in his numerous publications were those on preoperative oral fluids, and on the history of anaesthesia. He became well known as a presenter at the International Symposia on the History of Anaesthesia from the 1st in 1982 to the 6th in 2005. In 2002 he produced the book “Notable Names in Anaesthesia”, which received the British Medical Association’s ‘Basics of Medicine’ Book of the Year award and also the David M. Little award of the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology. He was elected an Honorary Member of the History of Anaesthesia society in 2010.
Other biographical information
He married Margaret Trueman SRN in 1964 and they had three sons. For most of his adult life he enjoyed table tennis, hiking, bridge and photography. He had a most likeable personality and inspired many medical historians; his interest in the history of anaesthesia lasted until his last years. Faced with declining health, in 2021 he and Margaret returned to England to be close to one of their sons. He died at the age of 88, survived by his family.
Author and Sources
Author
Alistair McKenzie
Sources and Comments For material which does not fit other categories
[1] Dr Maltby’s self submitted biographical “Boulton form” dated 1988. [2] Medical Registers and Directories. [3] Maltby JR, Curriculum Vitae 2009. [4] Photograph by Alistair McKenzie, 2010.