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Alleyn Club Virtual Dinner 2020
The Alleyn Club Dinner on Friday 13 November was, for the first time, held virtually and allowed over 130 people to join from around the world, including the UK, US, France, Germany, Estonia, Netherlands, Switzerland, Kenya, Canada, China, Singapore, India and New Zealand. We were delighted to be joined by guest speaker Professor Karol Sikora (59-65), who spoke about his first steps into and experiences with social media as well as his personal reflections on the pandemic and its impact on healthcare, in particular cancer.
We are delighted that three OAs were awarded honours this year, Professor David Webb CBE and Professor Mark Wilson OBE awarded honours in the Queen’s Birthday Honours and Sir Stephen Deuchar CBE was Knighted in the 2021 New Year Honours. Professor David Webb CBE (64-71) has been awarded Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, for services to Clinical Pharmacology Research and Education. He is Christison Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Edinburgh, and his work has included developing drugs for heart disease and blood pressure. As a leading international cardiovascular researcher, physician and pharmacologist, David works in the field of hypertension and kidney disease and runs Edinburgh’s Hypertension Excellence Centre. His research has contributed to new medicines for the treatment of heart disease. He has also made significant contributions to the development of safe and effective medicines, as a non-executive director and Deputy Chair of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the National Institute of Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC), playing a leading national and international role in assuring the quality of biological medicines and diagnostics, including for COVID-19. has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his work transforming the voluntary and emergency sectors with technology. With cofounder Ali Ghorbangholi, a software engineer, Mark founded the GoodSAM app (www.goodsamapp.org) a revolutionary platform that alerts doctors, nurses, paramedic and those trained in basic life support to emergencies around them and is now enabling video triage to optimise resource deployment to patients. He has worked extensively overseas including India, Nepal, South Africa, as a GP in Australia, Researcher for NASA and as an expedition doctor on Arctic and Everest expeditions. Professor Mark Wilson OBE (85-92) Mark is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Professor of Brain Injury at Imperial College, Consultant Neurosurgeon and Pre-Hospital Care Specialist (Imperial College, KSS Air Ambulance) and Honorary Professor of Pre-Hospital Care (Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh). Mark established the Neurotrauma service at St Mary’s, Imperial’s Major Trauma Centre in 2010. His specialist areas are acute brain injury (mostly traumatic brain injury) and its very early management. He is co-director of the Imperial Neurotrauma Centre. Mark's research focus is the hyper-acute management of brain injury and the physiological effects of hypoxia on the brain.
Charles Fellows-Smith (66-75) has been made a Vice President of the Cricketer Cup competition for his 'long service to the Cricketer Cup and his valuable work on the records and statistics'. Simon Dyson, Alleyn Club President, has known Charles Fellows-Smith for over 40 years. ‘Charles has been an ever-present force for the OAs in the Cricketer Cup. His playing record over 20 years (35 appearances) speaks for itself,
but Charles’s contribution to the Cricketer Cup competition itself as its ‘one-man self-appointed archivist’ will I am sure leave a much more impressive legacy. Those with a statistical bent should log on to thecricketercup.com where you will find a veritable cornucopia of Cricketer Cup history with Charles’ fingerprints all over it!’ Our image shows Charles (right) at Lord's with his brother, James (68-77), and father, Jon, a South African Test cricketer in 1960.
Hammad Jeilani (09-16) and Christopher Law (11-16) are working in conjunction with a number of key stakeholders including the Mid and South Essex NHS Trust, the UK and European Space agencies, the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme and drone operator partners Skylift UAV to trial a project designed to courier Covid-19 samples, blood tests and personal protective equipment between hospitals in England. The remote-controlled drone will initially fly between Essex’s Broomfield Hospital, Basildon Hospital and the Pathology First Laboratory in Basildon.
Richard Evans (87-95) was promoted to partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in 2020. Richard helps clients buy, sell, lease and finance commercial aircraft and private jets. He is the co-author of the Chambers Guide to Aircraft Financing & Leasing and Pillsbury’s World Aircraft Repossession Index. Peter M. Smith, FRICS (63-71) retired as an Executive Director of EY in November 2018. He is still active with RICS, appointed as Chair, Americas World Regional Board in 2017. He continues to provide property tax consulting services to select clients and lives in Los Angeles, CA USA. Congratulations to Jack Ramsay(07-18) who has joined the Royal Marines.
Alex Nelson (73-80) has become Master of the Clothworkers' Company in the City of London. The Company was founded in 1528 and Alex is the 501st Master, serving until July 2021. Alex has also served as the Alleyn Club OA regional representative for a number of years and has been responsible for some memorable reunion dinners at Durham Castle. Sam Williams (10-20) Sam was part of a team going into the College during the pandemic helping to make visors and face masks in the school’s design and technology department, as part of this work Sam went on to help create a COVID-19 secure screen for ear nose and throat doctors to use during medical examinations – allowing thousands of on-hold procedures to safely go ahead.
Sir Stephen Deuchar CBE (70-75) was Knighted in the 2021 New Year Honors list for services to the arts. Sir Stephen was the first director of Tate Britain in London, from 1998 to 2010 and between 2010 and 2020 he was the director of the UK's Art Fund.
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