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Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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224 回視聴 ・ いいね ・ 2024/05/08

Professor John Wallwork retires - February 2024

After 42 years of service to Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, our Chairman, Professor John Wallwork, has retired.

John certainly leaves with quite the legacy and without doubt has helped put Papworth Everard, Royal Papworth and also Cambridge on the global map of medicine.

From the moment he was appointed consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at then-called Papworth Hospital in October 1981, he has continued to play a major part in developing heart and lung transplantation at the hospital and globally.

In April 1984, he performed Europe’s first successful heart-lung transplant and in December 1986, alongside the late Professor Sir Roy Calne, they carried out the world’s first triple heart-lung and liver transplant, performed at Papworth.

He held both the medical director and director of research and development roles at Royal Papworth Hospital, as well as national and international positions in transplantation, before retiring from medical practice in 2010.

During his 10-year spell as Chair from 2014 to 2024 he oversaw the move of the hospital to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, its renaming to ‘Royal’ Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, an ‘outstanding’ rating by the Care Quality Commission and the building of the new Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute adjacent to the hospital.

Recognised by the Queen with a CBE in 2012, Professor Wallwork has been decorated with lifetime achievement awards by a number of organisations and was given an honorary chair in cardiothoracic surgery by the University of Cambridge.

This BBC Look East report aired on Friday 2 February 2024.

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