Dr Robert Cecil Brown

Personal Details

Dr Robert Cecil Brown MB ChB MD FFARCS DA

18/12/1923 - 24/01/2001

Place of birth: Barnsley, Yorkshire, England 

Nationality: British

CRN: 549105

 

 

Primary medical qualification(s)	MB ChB, University of Glasgow, 1946
Initial Fellowship and type	FFARCS by Election
Year of Fellowship	1953
Other qualification(s)	DA (RCP&S), 1950 MD, University of Glasgow, 1954 Certificate American Board of Anesthesiology, 1960

 

Professional life and career

Postgraduate career

After graduation Brown undertook house jobs at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow, Wrightington Hospital near Wigan, and Burton-on-Trent General Infirmary. From 1948 he was a resident anaesthetist at Withington Hospital in Manchester, followed by  St George’s Hospital London. In 1951 he was appointed Anaesthetic Registrar at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow where he was promoted to Assistant Anaesthetist by 1953. He was Exchange Fellow in Anesthesia at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (New York City) for 1955-56. He then returned to his job in Glasgow, but moved to the Department of Anesthesiology at Albany Hospital in the State of New York, USA in 1957. The following year he was appointed to a research post at the Department of Anesthesiology, National Institute of Health in Bethesda. In 1961 he was appointed Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Albany Medical Center, where he remained until his retirement.

Professional interests and activities

He was a member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Society of Anaesthetists, the British Medical Association and later the American Medical Association. His MD thesis was “Studies on muscle tone, with special reference to anaesthesia and specific relaxant drugs”. In 1955, while working with Drs HH Pinkerton and AG Miller at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow he published three papers on curarization and tendon jerks. At Albany in 1964 he edited the book “Anesthesiology”, Volume 12 of Medical Examination Review Book (multiple choice questions with answers), which had its 4th edition in 1973.  

Other biographical information

It is likely that his general education was in Lanarkshire, Scotland where his father, a  coal merchant/contractor, moved to work. No definite record of marriage has been identified. He died in Albany, USA at the age of 77 years.  

Author and Sources

Author

Alistair McKenzie

 

Sources and Comments For material which does not fit other categories

[1] Archives & Special Collections (ASC), University of Glasgow. 

[2] Medical Registers and Directories. 

[3] USA Medical Specialty Directory 1967. 

[4] USA Albany mausoleum listing. 

[5] ancestry.co.uk