Dr Douglas John Pearce
21/11/1926 to 21/11/2018
Place of birth: Toronto Canada
Nationality: British
CRN: 513689
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Owen’s School, London; King’s College, London; Westminster Hospital Medical School (best student in year) |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MRCS LRCP, 1950 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1954 |
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Other qualification(s) |
DA(RCP&S), 1952 (2-part qualification) |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
First posts were as house surgeon, Westminster Hospital and house physician, St Stephen’s Hospital, London. He was then sequentially SHO (1951-2), registrar (1952-5) and senior registrar (1955-7) at the Westminster before being appointed consultant to Southampton General, Royal South Hants & Southampton Chest Hospitals, retiring in 1990.
Professional interests and activities
His main clinical involvements were with cardio-thoracic anaesthesia, pain management & intensive care, but he also contributed to teaching, research, publication and administration of both clinical service & P-G training. Nationally, he was Faculty Regional Education Advisor (1974-84), introducing rotations to specialist units, and served on the Councils of both AAGBI (1964-8) and RSM Section (1979-83). Other activities included being Wessex advisor on maternal deaths (1970-87), founder chair of the regional specialist sub-committee (1972-81), member of a RHB committee to review health services on Guernsey (1985), and president of the Southern Society (1977).
Other biographical information
Married to Margaret Thompson, they had two children, Christopher & Susan. Played cricket & rugby for hospital teams in his earlier years, and subsequently pursued golf, salining, travel, photography & music.
Author and Sources
Author: Dr Bob Palmer
Sources and any other comments: [1] Boulton Form with later update (and photograph) from subjec