Barry Jackson (surgeon)

Sir Barry Jackson FRCS FRCP FRSM FRCSGlas
Jackson , Savile Club, London (2023)
Born	July 1936 (age 89)
Known for	Serjeant Surgeon to The Queen (1991–2001) President of the Royal College of Surgeons (1998–2001) [1]
Medical career
Profession	Surgeon
Field	Gastrointestinal surgery
Institutions	St Thomas' Hospital

Sir Barry Trevor Jackson (born July 1936) is a British retired surgeon, who, between 1991 and 2001, was Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen, and president of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1998 to 2001. ^[2] He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2001 New Year Honours, "for services to training and education in surgery". ^[3]

He served as president of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2002 to 2004. ^[4] Previously he was a gastrointestinal surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital, London, for over 30 years. ^[5]

Publications

• Jackson, Barry. "Treatment of depression by self-reinforcement." Behavior Therapy (1972). doi : 10.1016/S0005-7894(72)80095-9
• Jackson, Barry Alan, James A. Schwane, and Barry C. Starcher. "Effect of ultrasound therapy on the repair of Achilles tendon injuries in rats." Medicine and science in sports and exercise 23, no. 2 (1991): 171-176.
• Jackson, Barry. "What Makes an Excellent Surgeon?" Obesity Surgery 29, 1087–1089 (2019). doi : 10.1007/s11695-019-03778-8

References

1. "Risk from overworked surgeons". Mr Barry Jackson, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said: "My very desperate concern is that because there is this overworking, there will be occasions when the standard of work performed is less than adequate.
2. ‘Jackson, Sir Barry (Trevor)’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2012; online edn, November 2012 accessed 6 Sept 2013
3. "Surgeons' leader knighted". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC News. 30 December 2000. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022.
4. "Sir Barry Jackson (formerly the Queen's Surgeon and President of the RCS and RSM) - Talk and Q&A". talks.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
5. "A President in shirtsleeves". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine . 95 (10): 518–519. October 2002. doi:10.1177/014107680209501016. ISSN   0141-0768. PMC   1279186 .