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KING’S AND THE GAMES GUY’S CARDIAC PIONEERS THE CITY WE E LOV LOVE E TIME FOR TEA AND CRICKET

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KING’S WELCOMES THE QUEEN Her Majesty The Queen, Patron of the College, visited the Strand Campus in February to celebrate the renovation of Somerset House East Wing. Accompanied by the Marquess of Douro, Chairman of King’s College Council, The Queen toured the Inigo Rooms, watched law students participating in a moot court session

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and unveiled a plaque to formally open the building. The Principal, Professor Sir Richard Trainor, escorted His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh through the East Wing, including a visit to the School of Law. Moving into Somerset House East M_d] \kbÓbi W Zh[Wc i^Wh[Z Xo members of the King’s community

since the College was founded _d '.(/¿ X¿ o ¿j^[ Gk[[dÊi WdY[ijeh" King George IV, and the First Duke of Wellington, great-great-greatgrandfather of Lord Douro. The renovated building will be open for tours during Alumni Weekend, 8-10 June. For more information, visit alumni.kc.ac.uk/alumniweekend

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Update

THE BIG PICTURE Her Majesty The Queen visits

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UPDATE Months of darkness, a new Choir CD, Ron Wilson Q&A

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CAMPAIGN UPDATE Lau China Institute, Think Tank Society

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KING’S AND THE GAMES J^[ Ebocf_Yi Yec[ to London

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NO HEALTH WITHOUT MENTAL HEALTH King’s takes on a neglected challenge

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ADVOCATE FOR THE COUNTRYSIDE Guiding growth to the right place

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GUY’S CARDIAC PIONEERS Their work has saved thousands of lives

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COMMUNITY Celebrate London at Alumni Weekend

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LOGIC PUZZLE You saw the movie; now solve the puzzle

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Reggie’s round-up Chinese medicine database released King’s researchers have released a comprehensive database of the chemical components found in traditional Chinese medicine, allowing researchers to explore age-old remedies in the search for tomorrow’s new drugs. The ‘Chem-TCM’ database is the most comprehensive of its kind. Featuring more than 12,000 chemicals found in plants used in Chinese medicine, it is a valuable resource for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, academic researchers and the medical profession.

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The College is participating in many aspects of this year's Olympics and Paralympics

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Front and centre, of course, are the athletes. Members of the College community can expect to see several King’s students and alumni participating in the Olympics and Paralympics. The precise number isn’t known yet, as many teams won’t be named until late spring. Led by PhD law student Katherine Grainger, rowers are likely to represent King’s in good numbers. This will be Grainger’s fourth Olympics. She has already made 2O\PSLF KLVWRU\ DV WKH ĆŠUVW %ULWLVK ZRPDQ to win medals at three consecutive Games, all of them silver. Competing in the double scull, Grainger and Anna Watkins are expected to medal; the pair have been virtually unbeatable during the past two years, winning the World Championships LQ ʋʉʊʉ DQG ʋʉʊʊ *UDLQJHU LV D VL[ WLPH ZRUOG FKDPSLRQ DQG ZDV DZDUGHG DQ 0%( IRU VHUYLFHV WR VSRUW LQ ʋʉʉĘ? Ĺš,Ĺ›P SODQQLQJ WR FRPSOHWH P\ 3K' LQ ʋʉʊʋ so along with the London Olympics it’s going to be a busy and exciting year,’ she says. $W WKH %HLMLQJ *DPHV LQ ʋʉʉʑ *UDLQJHUĹ›V medal came in the quad; two of her teammates in that competition were King’s graduates: )UDQFHV +RXJKWRQ +LVSDQLF 6WXGLHV Ę‹Ę‰Ę‰ĘŒ and Annabel Vernon (MA, International 5HODWLRQV ʋʉʉĘ? %RWK DUH ORRNLQJ WR FRPSHWH in this year’s Games. Zoe Lee, a PhD geography student who RQO\ WRRN XS WKH VSRUW LQ ʋʉʉʑ LV DOVR D FRQWHQGHU IRU WKH *% 5RZLQJ 7HDP WR EH named in early June. In the months leading up WR WKH *DPHV KHU UHJLPH LQFOXGHV WZLFH GDLO\ WUDLQLQJ VHVVLRQV ZLWK ZHLJKWV DQG FURVV training supplementing rowing on machines and the water. She admits that it can be hard to squeeze everything in. ‘Working from home – I live in Putney, near the river – helps, as it cuts out the travel time,’ she says. She is a member of the .&/68 (OLWH $WKOHWH 6XSSRUW SURJUDPPH and this assistance covers boat membership and racking fees, training, physio and massage. Another rower, Ryan Chamberlain, (MA, 6FLHQFH 6HFXULW\ ʋʉʊʊ LV WUDLQLQJ WR participate in the Paralympic Games. Chamberlain took up rowing at King’s after losing his left leg when a drunk driver VWUXFN KLP ZKLOH F\FOLQJ LQ %ROLYLD +H HDUQHG a silver medal as a member of the adaptive PL[HG FR[HG IRXU DW WKH ʋʉʊʉ :RUOG Championships. 3LSSD %ULWWRQ *HRJUDSK\ ĘŠĘ’Ę‘ĘŒ LV %ULWDLQĹ›V PRVW H[SHULHQFHG IHPDOH 3DUDO\PSLF DUFKHU DQG DWWHQGHG WKH %HLMLQJ 3DUDO\PSLF *DPHV LQ ʋʉʉʑ ĆŠQLVKLQJ ĆŠIWK 6KH KDV medalled at six consecutive World Championships, holds three world records and has been consistently ranked as one of the 18

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world’s top six Paralympic archers. She’ll learn in May whether she will participate in this year’s Paralympics. Performing before a home crowd makes this year’s Games especially exciting, says %ULWWRQ Ĺš,WĹ›V D ZRQGHUIXO RSSRUWXQLW\ IRU DOO those people who help you achieve your dreams – the physios, coaches, psychologists, etc – to be able to see you compete.’ &RULQQD /DZUHQFH 0DWKHPDWLFV ʋʉʉʒ is likely to be wielding her ĂŠpĂŠe at the Olympic Games. In October, three months after an operation for tendinitis in her dominant wrist, VKH SODFHG ĘŠĘŽWK DW WKH :RUOG &KDPSLRQVKLSV LQ ,WDO\ WKH EHVW VKRZLQJ IRU D %ULWLVK IHQFHU ‘Fourteen years of fencing has built up to this SHULRG DQG GHVSLWH WKH LQMXU\ , VXƨHUHG ODVW year, I am mentally and physically prepared IRU WKH ODVW IRXU UHPDLQLQJ TXDOLĆŠFDWLRQ competitions,’ she says. ‘To have the largest and greatest sporting event on the planet in /RQGRQ LV D RQFH LQ D OLIHWLPH RSSRUWXQLW\ Ĺ›

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GHWHUUHQW HƨHFW Ĺ› VD\V 3URIHVVRU 'DYLG &RZDQ who heads King’s Drug Control Centre, the 8.Ĺ›V RQO\ DQWL GRSLQJ ODERUDWRU\ DFFUHGLWHG E\ WKH :RUOG $QWL 'RSLQJ $JHQF\ :$'$ In partnership with GlaxoSmithKline, King’s will operate a satellite laboratory at the Olympic and Paralympic Games. ‘Our aim is to ensure that the Games are conducted to the highest ethical standards, to deter drug cheats and to enable athletes to lead healthier lives,’ says Professor Cowan, who is gearing up for his seventh Olympic Games. ‘Our sophisticated laboratory will be packed ZLWK KLJKO\ VHQVLWLYH DQG UDSLG WHVWLQJ HTXLSPHQW DQG VWDƨHG DURXQG WKH FORFN ZLWK RYHU ʊʎʉ VFLHQWLVWV Ĺ› 0RUH WKDQ Ę? ʉʉʉ VDPSOHV ZLOO EH DQDO\VHG

throughout the Olympic and Paralympic *DPHV XS WR Ę?ʉʉ HDFK GD\ PRUH WKDQ DW DQ\ previous Games. The laboratory, based in +DUORZ (VVH[ DQG PHDVXULQJ WKH VL]H RI VHYHQ WHQQLV FRXUWV ZLOO RSHUDWH Ę‹Ę? KRXUV D GD\ seven days a week. The King’s Drug Control Centre was HVWDEOLVKHG LQ ĘŠĘ’Ę?Ę‘ DQG FDQ FODLP D QXPEHU RI VLJQLĆŠFDQW ĆŠUVWV LQ WKH GHYHORSPHQW RI QHZ tests for prohibited substances, including amphetamine and anabolic steroids. ‘This is a challenging area of forensic science,’ says Professor Cowan. ‘A huge number of prohibited substances need to be detected, often at very low concentrations. Some, such as testosterone, are also naturally produced in the body, making it hard to prove that they have been administered.’ At the same time, the Centre must provide XQHTXLYRFDO UHVXOWV ZLWK ĆŠQGLQJV VXEMHFW WR intense legal scrutiny. So how do they know they’re getting it right? ‘We maintain a chain of custody for all our samples,’ says Professor Cowan, ‘and WADA carries out regular blind tests on its laboratories. Our ongoing accreditation is a guarantee of the reliability of our work in helping catch drug cheats.’

Clean air, green Games As part of LOCOG’s pledge to make the London Games ‘the greenest ever’, King’s (QYLURQPHQWDO 5HVHDUFK *URXS (5* ZLOO work closely with the Health Protection Agency throughout the Olympics and Paralympics, using advanced air quality surveillance systems at its Waterloo Campus base to assess and manage the health risks associated with air pollution. ‘Athletes are particularly vulnerable to the HƨHFWV RI DLU SROOXWLRQ Ĺ˜ WKHLU KHDY\ WUDLQLQJ regimes mean they breathe a lot of air, and that increases their pollution dose,’ explains the (5*Ĺ›V 'U *DU\ )XOOHU %XW DWWHQWLRQ LV DOVR

MEMORIES OF THE 1948 ‘AUSTERITY GAMES’ Dr Thomas Christie was a successful rower during and after his time at King’s. The retired anaesthesiologist, who graduated in 1950, twice won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta and took silver at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. The Olympic Games of 1948, however, were a disappointment. Competing as a member of the coxless four, Dr Christie says he and his fellow British rowers stayed at a house in Henley during the Games, taking most of their meals there. With red meat in short supply, chicken was a common meal. Just before their

race, Dr Christie and his teammates were struck with salmonella – which he is sure came from an improperly prepared chicken. ‘To be perfectly honest, we all got diarrhoea,’ he says. In their weakened state, the foursome simply could not perform at their expected level. While London hosted most of the events during the ‘Austerity Games’, Alex Robertson-Kellie AKC (Geography, 1954) recalls that Torquay hosted the Games’ sailing events. ‘It was quite an exceptional experience for Torquinians, who welcomed all sorts of people

from all over the world,’ says Robertson-Kellie. ‘I was a Boy Scout at the time and the Scouts were prominent in supporting heb[i" _dYbkZ_d] Wi Ă”W] X[Wh[hi \eh j^[ cWdo Z_Ăš[h[dj Yekdjh_[i$ ? YWhh_[Z j^[ Im_ii Ă”W] Wj j^[ opening and closing ceremonies.’ Although a bad meal dashed his Olympic medal dreams, Dr Christie fondly remembers his time rowing. He hopes to attend some of this year’s races at Dorney Lake to see rowers experiencing the sensation he clearly recalls from six decades ago. ‘When you have a good eight rowing well, it’s absolutely exhilarating.’

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Keeping London safe Ask David Musker why he swapped academia Ĺ˜ KH JUDGXDWHG IURP .LQJĹ›V LQ ĘŠĘ’Ę‘Ę? ZLWK D biology degree before going on to do a doctorate in biochemistry – for a career with the Metropolitan Police, and he’ll tell you it was the mix of ‘excitement and responsibility’ WKDW DSSHDOHG WR KLP 7KH VXPPHU RI ʋʉʊʋ promises plenty of both as he gears up to take charge of security at the Olympic beach volleyball event at Horse Guards Parade in central London. Musker is keen to point out that what might VRXQG OLNH D GUHDP MRE LV DFWXDOO\ D PDMRU security challenge. ‘The volleyball arena holds ĘŠĘŽ ʉʉʉ SHRSOH DQG WKHUHĹ›OO EH WKUHH RU IRXU VHVVLRQV HDFK GD\ 7KDW PHDQV JHWWLQJ Ę?ʉ ʉʉʉ people in and out safely – including searches and security checks – and keeping the surrounding area safe. We’re between Downing Street and the royal palaces, so it FRXOGQĹ›W EH PXFK PRUH KLJK SURĆŠOH DQG RI course we’ll be beamed across the world on live TV.’ 0RUH WKDQ ĘŠĘ? ʉʉʉ SROLFH RĆŤFHUV IURP the Met and other UK forces will be on duty every day throughout the Games. Security planning for the Olympics and Paralympics began the day after London’s successful bid was announced. Since then, Musker has FRPELQHG KLV GD\ MRE DV %RURXJK &RPPDQGHU for Croydon with his role as part of the dedicated Games command team, working closely with colleagues from LOCOG. Musker says all of the planning and SUHSDUDWLRQ ZLOO KDYH SDLG Rƨ LI WKH FURZGV remain largely unaware of the security measures in place. ‘We don’t want it to feel

like a military operation,’ he says. ‘We want people to feel like they’re being policed by %ULWLVK EREELHV ,WĹ›V WKDW NLQG RI WUDGLWLRQ WKDW ZLOO PDNH /RQGRQ ʋʉʊʋ VR XQLTXH The atmosphere is going to be electric, and we want to be part of that.’ At the macro level, Sir David Omand, a visiting professor in the Department of War Studies, is heading a panel of ‘critical friends’ responsible for the external validation of the ʋʉʊʋ VHFXULW\ VWUDWHJ\ $Q H[SHUW RQ VHFXULW\ and intelligence issues, Sir David’s CV includes stints as UK Security and Intelligence &R RUGLQDWRU LQ WKH &DELQHW 2ĆŤFH 3HUPDQHQW 6HFUHWDU\ RI WKH +RPH 2ĆŤFH DQG Policy Director of the Ministry of Defence, making him a natural choice to head up a team of outside experts who are reviewing and advising on security preparations for the *DPHV %HWZHHQ WKHP SDQHO PHPEHUV RƨHU expertise in domestic security, intelligence, PDMRU HYHQW SODQQLQJ ODUJH VFDOH SROLFH DQG military operations and crisis management. ‘The Olympics security programme has its own full internal quality assurance and performance management processes,’ Sir 'DYLG H[SODLQV Ĺš%XW KDYLQJ DQ RXWVLGH JURXS RƨHULQJ D WRWDOO\ LQGHSHQGHQW SHUVSHFWLYH KDV provided a sanity check and helped highlight some issues that needed resolution, such as the relationship between the extra security needed for the games and ongoing work to improve intelligence and security under WKH JRYHUQPHQWĹ›V &217(67 FRXQWHU terrorism strategy.’

Legal support Imagine an athlete from a small, poor nation at this year’s Olympics, thousands of miles from home, stumbling into a situation where he needs legal help. Where can he turn for help? LOCOG foresaw this possible scenario and DVNHG WKH /DZ 6RFLHW\ WKH %DU &RXQFLO DQG WKH %ULWLVK $VVRFLDWLRQ IRU 6SRUW DQG /DZ WR assemble a group of law professionals who could provide free legal advice. The result is WKH /RQGRQ ʋʉʊʋ 3UR %RQR /HJDO $GYLFH DQG Representation Service. LOCOG announced creation of this service LQ HDUO\ ʋʉʊʊ DQG UHFHLYHG ʊʎʉ DSSOLFDWLRQV IRU

A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY With the Olympics coming to London, 2012 is a good year to get more exercise. Members of the King’s community can lace up their trainers and try out a new sport through the Gold Challenge – and raise funds for King’s Health Partners along the way. There are three ways to participate: š 9kh_eki je [nfbeh[ W d[m ifehj5

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You can be part of the Olympic Sport Challenge, which allows you to try up to 30 Olympic and Paralympic sports, either on your own or in a small group. š <eh j^ei[ m^e mWdj je fki^ themselves, there is the 2012 km Challenge. You, or your group, must cover a distance of 20.12, 201.2 or 2,012 kilometres via activities such as running,

swimming, cycling and kayaking. š J^[ Gold Challenge in a Day event is for dedicated competitors: walking, cycling, rowing, running and swimming back-to-back over a set distance in a choice of levels – sprint, endurance and ultra. You can learn more at www.goldchallenge.org or by calling on 020 7848 7431.

If we can replicate what we had at the Royal Wedding, where it felt OLNH /RQGRQ was the centre of the world’s celebrations, that would be amazing David Musker

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focusing on the exposure of spectators and the public, with Dr Fuller and his team working closely with Transport for London to DQWLFLSDWH WKH HƨHFWV RI WUDĆŤF URXWLQJ Forward planning is vital: road closures and event timings can go a long way to ameliorate WKH LPSDFW RI SROOXWLRQ %XW 'U )XOOHU acknowledges that some elements can’t be controlled. ‘We all hope of course that the ZHDWKHU FRQGLWLRQV LQ VXPPHU ʋʉʊʋ GRQĹ›W result in elevated pollution for London.’

ĘŠĘ’ SRVWV 2I WKH ĘŠĘ’ VHOHFWHG IRXU KDYH degrees from King’s School of Law, one of them being Max Duthie, who received KLV SRVW JUDGXDWH GLSORPD LQ (XURSHDQ &RPPXQLW\ &RPSHWLWLRQ /DZ LQ ʋʉʉʉ +H LV QRZ D VROLFLWRU DQG SDUWQHU DW %LUG %LUG LQ /RQGRQ ZKHUH KH VSHFLDOLVHV LQ sports law. ‘It’s a service primarily aimed at those athletes and teams who would not ordinarily KDYH VXĆŤFLHQW UHVRXUFHV WR UHWDLQ WKHLU RZQ bODZ\HUV RYHU KHUH Ĺ› VD\V 'XWKLH Ĺš7KH bYDVW bPDMRULW\ RI DWKOHWHV ZLOO MXVW FRPH KHUH bDQG FRPSHWH DQG ZRQĹ›W DW DQ\ VWDJH QHHG D ODZ\HU %XW H[SHULHQFH WHOOV XV WKDW issues do arise for some, for example in terms RI bTXDOLĆŠFDWLRQ VHOHFWLRQ HOLJLELOLW\ RU bGRSLQJ Ĺ› Duthie and his colleagues in the service fall LQWR WZR FDWHJRULHV RQH RƨHULQJ OHJDO DGYLFH RQ LVVXHV VXFK DV SHUVRQDO LQMXU\ LPPLJUDWLRQ DQG FULPH DQG WKH RWKHU IRFXVLQJ RQ VSRUW related matters. Duthie is a member of the latter group. He has worked in sports law for QHDUO\ ĘŠĘŽ \HDUV DQG KDV EHHQ LQYROYHG LQ VHYHUDO KLJK SURĆŠOH FDVHV LQFOXGLQJ UXJE\ union’s ‘bloodgate’, when a player in a +HLQHNHQ &XS TXDUWHUĆŠQDOV JDPH IDEULFDWHG DQ LQMXU\ ZLWK D MRNH VKRS EORRG FDSVXOH Duthie himself is a former professional rugby union player. The other King’s alumni on the London ʋʉʊʋ 3UR %RQR /HJDO $GYLFH DQG Representation Service are Mark Afeeva //% ĘŠĘ’Ę’ĘŽ RI 0DWUL[ &KDPEHUV 6WXDUW &XWWLQJ //% ĘŠĘ’Ę’ĘŽ RI :ULJKW +DVVDOO 6ROLFLWRUV DQG -DQH 0XOFDK\ (XURSHDQ &RPPXQLW\ &RPSHWLWLRQ ĘŠĘ’Ę’Ę‘ RI %ODFNVWRQH &KDPEHUV

Representing victory This year’s Olympic and Paralympic *DPHVbZLOO RƨHU PRUH WKDQ DQ RSSRUWXQLW\ WR bFHOHEUDWH DWKOHWLF H[FHOOHQFH 7KURXJK WKH b&XOWXUDO 2O\PSLDG LQVWLWXWLRQV DFURVV WKH b8. DUH PDUNLQJ WKH *DPHV ZLWK RƨHULQJV IRU bWKH PLQG .LQJĹ›V &HQWUH IRU +HOOHQLF Studies, in collaboration with the Roman Society, is organising a workshop to ORRN bDW bWKH bZD\V LQ ZKLFK DQFLHQW *UHHN representations of athletic victory have been reinterpreted through the centuries. ‘It’s a way to detect traces of the classical past in the present,’ says the centre’s Professor Charlotte RouechĂŠ. The programme will DOVR bORRN DW KRZ RWKHUV KDYH DSSURSULDWHG representations of athletic victory, such DV b1DSROHRQ ZHDULQJ D ZUHDWK DV *UHHN athletes did two millennia earlier. The workshop will be held on Saturday, ĘŒĘ‰ b-XQH LQ WKH 6DIUD /HFWXUH 7KHDWUH LQ WKH b.LQJĹ›V %XLOGLQJ ,QIRUPDWLRQ LV DYDLODEOH E\ FDOOLQJ Ę?Ę? ʉ ʋʉ Ę?Ę‘Ę?Ę‘ Ę‹ĘŒĘ?ĘŒ SPRING 2012 IN TOUCH

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NO HEALTH WITHOUT MENTAL HEALTH King’s is part of a collaboration drawing attention to one of the developing world’s greatest unmet healthcare needs

Imagine a health condition which is widespread across the world. In many cases, it lasts a lifetime. It prevents people from working, makes them more vulnerable to infections and malnutrition and carries D PDVVLYH VWLJPD ,Q GHYHORSLQJ FRXQWULHV ʒʉ SHU FHQW RI VXƨHUHUV UHFHLYH QR WUHDWPHQW DW DOO And although international aid organisations and philanthropic foundations are doing great work stamping out diseases such as HIV, malaria and polio, few, as yet, are interested in tackling this massive problem. The condition? Mental health problems, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression. These make up a tenth of the disease burden in the developing world.

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‘Mental health is the big neglected disease topic in global health, even though it makes XS ʊʉ SHU FHQW RI WKH WRWDO KHDOWK EXUGHQ LQ lower-income countries,’ says Professor Martin Prince, Co-Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH), a collaboration between King’s Health Partners and the London School of Hygiene DQG 7URSLFDO 0HGLFLQH )RXQGHG LQ ʋʉʉʒ the centre’s main function is to foster research and training in global mental health policy, prevention, treatment and care. ‘There is no other major kind of disease area that is so neglected in terms of specialists, or indeed anyone attending to people with mental health needs.’

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‘Mental health is the big neglected disease topic in global health,’ says Professor Martin Prince, Co-Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health

Why does global mental health matter? After all, one might say that the developing world has far bigger health problems than depression – sewage-infected drinking water, drug-resistant malaria or the diarrhoeal GLVHDVHV WKDW NLOO ĘŠ ĘŽ PLOOLRQ FKLOGUHQ HYHU\ year to name but a few. The answer, says Professor Prince, lies in the centre’s motto – ‘No health without mental health.’ He points out that the long-term costs of untreated mental health conditions are vast and impinge upon a range of social issues, including employment, housing and hygiene. ‘There has been a major focus on the global health agenda in preventing mortality,’ says Professor Prince. ‘This is very reasonable, particularly in terms of child mortality and PDWHUQDO GHDWK ,WĹ›V ĆŠUVWO\ WUDJLF EXW DOVR LQ economic terms it’s a loss in productivity for a country when young people die before they have even reached their economically productive age range. However, there is also D VLJQLĆŠFDQW PRUWDOLW\ DVVRFLDWHG ZLWK PHQWDO disorders. Suicide causes a million deaths per \HDU RI ZKLFK DERXW ʑʉ SHU FHQW DUH IURP middle-income countries. With mental disorders come disability and lost function. Many disorders are chronic and lifelong, like autism. Others, like depression, are relapsing and remitting. There’s a huge societal burden associated with that.’ Professor Prince describes a typical case: a mother in a developing country whose son has schizophrenia. There is no health insurance, no free-at-the-point-of-delivery healthcare. She has no money to spare. He is unable to work and if she has to look after him, she can’t work either. So she waits until her son’s behaviour becomes uncontrollable. She manages, somehow, to get her son to the capital city, where all the country’s mental health services are clustered. He is admitted to the psychiatric hospital and spends several

as a genuine public health concern adds WR WKH GLĆŤFXOWLHV according to Dr Charlotte Hanlon, also of Addis Ababa University. Ĺš7KHUH DUH YHU\ ĆŠ[HG perceptions that Ethiopia is a starving country, clearly A GENUINE PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN because of the Why has global mental health been so memorable famines,’ QHJOHFWHG" ,Q ʋʉʉĘ? 'U 5LFKDUG +RUWRQ she says. ‘It’s editor of The Lancet, pointed out the ‘fragile VRPHWLPHV GLĆŤFXOW – and utterly fragmented for the most to get funders to disadvantaged’ nature of mental health appreciate that services and called for coordinated action funding mental via the journal’s Global Mental Health series, health would be an supported by the CGMH. That same series important issue here. included a sobering report on the considerable Mortality is very barriers to improving services in low- to high in people with severe mental illness. middle-income countries. Lead author Their condition makes them vulnerable to diseases of neglect such as malnutrition and Dr Benedetto Saraceno of the World Health infection. But good treatment decreases Organization cited the low priority of global mortality. So treatment of mental health has mental health on the world health policy a physical health consequence.’ agendas, stigma leading to a lack of advocacy, A brief overview of Dr Fekadu and Dr the centralisation of services in capital cities Hanlon’s current projects gives some idea of and a simple lack of trained professionals. the scale of the country’s needs. They are In Ethiopia, these barriers seem almost LQVXUPRXQWDEOH 7KHUH DUH MXVW Ę?ʉ SV\FKLDWULVWV researching the prevalence of mental health LQ WKLV YDVW FRXQWU\ RI ʑʉ PLOOLRQ SHRSOH 2QO\ conditions among the city’s homeless FRPPXQLW\ Ĺš0\ JXHVV LV WKDW ĘŒĘ‰ WR ʎʉ SHU FHQW two are trained in childhood mental health, despite half the population being made up of of those people will have severe mental illness,’ children and adolescents. Dr Abebaw Fekadu says Dr Fekadu. Dr Hanlon is tracking of Addis Ababa University estimates that a cohort of mothers in rural Ethiopia to Ę’Ę’ SHU FHQW RI WKRVH ZLWK VHYHUH PHQWDO KHDOWK LQYHVWLJDWH WKH HƨHFW RI PDWHUQDO GHSUHVVLRQ problems such as schizophrenia do not receive on child health. They are collaborating on an investigation into why so many young adequate treatment. ‘We know that mental Ethiopian girls who have migrated to middledisorders are as common as anywhere else in income countries to undertake domestic the world,’ he says. ‘But the care for people work are returning with severe mental health with mental disorders is completely abysmal.’ Gaining acceptance of mental health issues problems. They are also working on two major months there. She manages to pay for his admission and his drug costs and is eventually sent home with her son and a bag of pills. 6KH JLYHV KLP WKH SLOOV DQG KH VHHPV ĆŠQH Ĺ˜ until they run out, and the cycle begins again. ‘So you get a pattern of catastrophic spending,’ KH VD\V Ĺš2EYLRXVO\ WKH PRUH FRVW HƨHFWLYH way of dealing with this is to have a community service that is well stocked with medication. But that doesn’t exist.’

research projects, one funded by the National Institutes of Health (US) and the other by the Department for International Development, aimed at scaling up mental health care to be integrated into the primary healthcare system. Both projects are supported by the CGMH which, say Fekadu and Hanlon, has been ĹšKXJHO\ EHQHĆŠFLDO Ĺ› Every country has its own geographical, cultural and economic issues. But this kind of extensive research is starting to indicate the best ways to implement global health policy. Capacity-building is key. ‘Ethiopia has moved forward to the next stage of being more sustainable,’ says Dr Hanlon. ‘We’ve started a PhD programme, supported by the CGMH, at Addis Ababa University. We have seven PhD students now. There’s always a concern that when big international projects are set up it’s all one-way. I think the Ethiopian model has shown that that hasn’t happened and it has now moved to the next step – doing something within the country rather than sending people abroad. That will have a huge impact when our students start to graduate.’ Working in partnership with what’s already there is also essential. There is no ‘parachuting in’ of expertise. And it’s these collaborations, says Professor Prince, that are helping to produce the hard evidence needed to convince health ministers and international aid organisations to devote scarce resources to mental health services. ‘Advocacy alone – just shouting at people – isn’t actually going to lead to increased investment. It’s only by demonstrating that there are WKLQJV \RX FDQ GR WKDW ZLOO PDNH D GLƨHUHQFH that you will actually get policymakers to listen. ‘There’s a huge amount of work to do. :H ZRQĹ›W DOZD\V JHW WKLQJV ULJKW ĆŠUVW WLPH %XW , IHHO WKDW LQ DQRWKHU ʊʉ \HDUV ZH ZLOO KDYH moved on a great deal.’

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Launching in September, the CGMH’s new MSc in Global Mental Health h[Ô[Yji j^[ _cfehjWdY[ e\ YWfWY_jo# building and local thinking. Taught `e_djbo Wj A_d]Êi 9ebb[][ BedZedÊi ?dij_jkj[ e\ FioY^_Wjho WdZ j^[ BedZed IY^eeb e\ >o]_[d[ WdZ Jhef_YWb C[Z_Y_d[" _j m_bb \eYki ed j^[ development, scaling up and [lWbkWj_ed e\ beYWbbo Wffhefh_Wj[ WdZ \[Wi_Xb[ ijhWj[]_[i je h[ZkY[ j^[ XkhZ[d e\ c[djWb Z_iehZ[hi" _dYbkZ_d]

feb_Yo" ^[Wbj^ ioij[ci" ^[Wbj^ i[hl_Y[i and clinical interventions. ‘We are going to be able to give students rich, Z_h[Yj [nf[h_[dY[i e\ ^em h[i[WhY^ questions are being addressed, what the research is showing, how the programmes are being implemented,’ iWoi Fhe\[iieh Fh_dY[$ ÉM[ ^ef[ j^Wj this programme will make them [Ăš[Yj_l[ WYjehi _d j^[_h emd h_]^j" in their own countries – wherever that might be.’

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developers to ensure that rural planning applications are appropriate. That’s why the CPRE objected so strongly to the Government’s draft National Planning Policy Framework, the biggest shake-up of SODQQLQJ IRU PRUH WKDQ ʎʉ \HDUV ZKLFK LW believes could open up the countryside to damaging development. Bizarrely, that objection led to a public spat with the Government in the press. ‘It was our best publicity in years,’ says Spiers. ‘It really invigorated our membership.’ Spiers is clearly a natural campaigner. As a PPE student at Oxford, he was a passionate supporter of the Campaign for 1XFOHDU 'LVDUPDPHQW FDUWLQJ D ĆŠOP SURMHFWRU around rooms to show the controversial BBC anti-nuclear drama The War Game in a bid to whip up recruits. After Oxford, mindful of the adage that if you wish for peace, you must understand war, he went on to King’s to do a Master’s in War Studies under Barry Paskins, Michael Dockrill and Lawrence Freedman. Although he considered himself to be ‘the only peacenik’ on the course, he found plenty of fellow students happy to debate with him, often in the Lyceum pub on the Strand. After King’s, Spiers returned to Oxford to do a DPhil under Sir Michael Howard – a mistake, he now realises, in spite of the eminence of his supervisor, a founder of King’s Department of War Studies. ‘I should have VWD\HG DW .LQJĹ›V Ĺ› 2[IRUG ZDV WRR KDQGV Rƨ too scattergun in its peer group for him, and his thesis, ‘British leftwing attitudes to war ĘŠĘ’ĘŒĘŽ Ę?ĘŽĹ› ZDV QHYHU ĆŠQLVKHG Ĺš, QHHGHG PRUH discipline,’ he says. $IWHU 2[IRUG 6SLHUV EHFDPH ĆŠUVW D SROLWLFDO RĆŤFHU RI WKH 6RXWK (DVW &R RS WKHQ DQ 0(3 IRU ĆŠYH \HDUV ZKLFK ZDV HQMR\DEOH EXW ĹšEUXWDO on relationships, being absent a lot’. Culled in

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Shaun Spiers, CEO of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), has some persuading to do. Just before we speak, the *RYHUQPHQW DQQRXQFHG WKDW +6Ę‹ WKH QHZ high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham, is to go ahead, ploughing a furrow through the Chilterns – exactly the kind of countryside you might think CPRE exists to protect. Yet Spiers has issued a press release with ‘a rather positive line on it’. He’s just waiting for the ‘calls of outrage IURP PHPEHUV QRZĹ› b But Spiers is used to persuading. Wooing, invigorating and generally ensuring a common SXUSRVH DPRQJ &35(Ĺ›V Ę‹ ʉʉʉ YROXQWHHUV DQG Ę?ĘŒ EUDQFKHV PDQ\ FKDULWLHV LQ WKHLU RZQ ULJKW are all part of his brief. It’s not always easy, he admits. This one is particularly ‘tricky’, he says, but he has a persuasive argument – and one that gets to the heart of what CPRE is for. ‘We have always been focused on getting development in the right place, not stopping it,’ he says. ‘We have a growing population and a rail network that’s creaking at the seams. If we don’t get new rail capacity we’ll get more roads, which is more environmentally damaging.’ What’s more, it appears that ministers have actually listened to opinions expressed in the consultation process and made changes accordingly, he says. ‘It’s a bit of a triumph for the planning system.’ Planning is fundamentally what CPRE is DOO DERXW 6LQFH LWV IRXQGDWLRQ LQ ĘŠĘ’Ę‹Ę? LW KDV campaigned for and won a number of notable victories, resulting in national parks, areas of outstanding natural beauty and the green belt. It is the largest third-party participant in the English planning system, a system that it campaigned for from the beginning. Quietly, daily, its branch volunteers work alongside concerned residents, local governments and

the Labour ‘bloodbath’ of MEPs LQ ĘŠĘ’Ę’Ę’ KH EHFDPH CEO of the Association of British Credit Unions Limited, before leaving to head up CPRE in ʋʉʉĘ? (LJKW \HDUV on, all is going well, although these are challenging times, with a growing urban population and heightened competition from the likes of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Woodland Trust, et al – all good for the cause, less so for funding. Nevertheless, membership is up, boosted by the popularity of Bill Bryson, who Spiers helped persuade to become president. A surprising choice, perhaps, but a powerful one: a professional traveller who has scoured WKH ZRUOG DQG IRXQG WKDW LWV ĆŠQHVW FRXQWU\VLGH is English. And it’s the countryside, appropriately, that Spiers visits to relax. His favourite spot is the Cotswolds, he says, not merely for the landscape, but also for the villages: a neat example of how the built environment is often a part of our notion of the countryside. :KLFK EULQJV XV EDFN WR +6Ę‹ ,I ZHĹ›UH JRLQJ to do this, says Spiers, let’s do it right. ‘If we need a viaduct, for example, let’s make it something beautiful that we can celebrate LQ ʊʉʉ \HDUVĹ› WLPH Ĺ› 1RZ WKHUHĹ›V DQ LGHD that’s hard to argue with.

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Balancing development against protection of England’s bucolic landscape

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THE CARDIAC PIONEERS OF GUYŅS Advances in heart surgery were among the great medical successes of the past century, and Guy’s surgeons were in the thick of it

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‘The heart is a wonderful pump. But that’s really all it is. It pumps blood through the lungs, where it gets oxygenated, and then pumps the oxygenated blood around the body.’ At the same time, Sir Terence English is quick to add, the heart is an awe-inspiring bit of evolution, never at rest from before birth WR RXU ĆŠQDO GD\ Retired from his successful career as a cardiac surgeon, Sir Terence knows the heart about as well as anyone. He was one of a small number of people who pioneered heart surgery LQ WKH ʋʉWK FHQWXU\ Ĺ˜ D JURXS RI GULYHQ competitive visionaries who pushed the boundaries to repair, and even replace, an organ that much of the medical profession had FRQVLGHUHG Rƨ OLPLWV XQWLO D IHZ GHFDGHV DJR <HV (J\SWLDQV PRUH WKDQ Ę‹ ʉʉʉ \HDUV DJR recognised the importance of the heart’s pumping action. Its steady, almost mystical rhythm made it a remarkable part of the body. 'HVSLWH Ĺ˜ RU PD\EH EHFDXVH RI Ĺ˜ LWV FOHDU LPSRUWDQFH PRVW VXUJHRQV XQWLO WKH PLG ʋʉWK century feared to take a scalpel to this ‘mansion of the soul’. Ĺš6RPH FDUGLRORJLVWV LQ WKH ĘŒĘ‰V Ę?ʉV DQG HYHQ

LQWR WKH ʎʉV ZHUH very, very sceptical about surgeons operating on the heart,’ says Sir Terence. ‘Many felt it was too dangerous, Many that the heart would not stand being surgeons operated on.’ believed the In a span of four heart couldn’t decades all fear and superstition tolerate surrounding the heart surgery were swept aside: doctors discovered the heart could tolerate surgery. This year marks the Ę?ʉWK DQQLYHUVDU\ RI WKH ĆŠUVW VXFFHVVIXO open heart surgery, DQG WKH Ę?ĘŽWK DQQLYHUVDU\ RI WKH ĆŠUVW WUDQVSODQW Most of the doctors who developed procedures such as hypothermic surgery and inventions such as the heart-lung machine

were North Americans. However, several surgeons who trained or worked at Guy’s +RVSLWDO ĆŠJXUH SURPLQHQWO\ LQ WKLV VWRU\ and this article focuses on four of them, all connected to one another: Lord Russell Brock, ZKR UHDOLVHG VHYHUDO VLJQLĆŠFDQW FDUGLDF DFKLHYHPHQWV LQ WKH ĘŠĘ’Ę?ʉV DQG ʎʉV DQG ZDV PDGH D ORUG LQ ĘŠĘ’Ę?ĘŽ 'RQDOG 5RVV D OHDGLQJ LQQRYDWRU LQ WKH Ę?ʉV DQG DFFRUGLQJ WR 6LU 7HUHQFH ĹšWKH ĆŠQHVW FDUGLDF VXUJHRQ RI KLV JHQHUDWLRQĹ› 6LU 7HUHQFH ZKR SHUIRUPHG WKH 8.Ĺ›V ĆŠUVW VXFFHVVIXO KHDUW WUDQVSODQW LQ WKH ODWH Ę?ʉV DQG 'DYLG &RRSHU ZKR FRQWLQXHV WR work as Professor of Surgery at the Thomas E Starzl Transplantation Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Two of these gentlemen have written about advancements in cardiac surgery. Sir Terence’s autobiography, Follow Your Star, includes details about the heart transplant programme he established at Papworth Hospital near Cambridge. Cooper’s book, Open Heart: The Radical Surgeons Who Revolutionized Medicine, traces advancements in heart VXUJHU\ IURP WKH ĘŠĘ’ĘŒĘ‰V ZKHQ VXUJHRQV ĆŠUVW operated on blood vessels close to the heart,

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Innovative, demanding and intimidating, 5XVVHOO %URFN SXVKHG KLV VWDƨ WR ZLWVĹ› HQG DQG H[KDXVWLRQ $ ĘŠĘ’Ę‹Ę? *X\Ĺ›V JUDGXDWH /RUG Brock emerged as a leading cardiac surgeon shortly after World War II. Professor Cooper describes him as an introspective perfectionist ‘with a streak of showmanship’. He is recognised for several contributions to cardiac surgery, including advances in relieving mitral valve stenosis and inventing a mechanical valve dilator. His groundbreaking pulmonary valve operation saved lives by opening QDUURZHG YDOYHV WKLV DOOHYLDWHG WKH SUREOHP RI ĹšEOXH EDELHVĹ› FKLOGUHQ ZKR VXƨHUHG IURP DQ REVWUXFWLRQ RI EORRG ĆŞRZ WR WKH OXQJV This operation also ‘demonstrated the heart’s tolerance to direct surgical intervention’, writes Professor Cooper. ‘Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors actually did the operation about a week before, but Brock JRW LW LQWR WKH OLWHUDWXUH ĆŠUVW Ĺ› VD\V 6LU 7HUHQFH ‘People like Brock and Sellors were very competitive. And they were prima donnas in the operating room. There’s no doubt about it.’ Professor Cooper writes about Lord Brock’s brusque behaviour but in a sympathetic light. Like every physician pushing the boundaries RI FDUGLDF VXUJHU\ LQ WKH PLG ʋʉWK FHQWXU\ Lord Brock regularly saw patients die on the RSHUDWLQJ WDEOH GHVSLWH H[WHQVLYH WHVWLQJ RQ dogs and other animals, mortality rates were high, which ‘must have given him many sleepless nights.’ By the time Professor Cooper arrived at Guy’s as a student, Lord Brock’s star was being eclipsed by younger colleagues, such as Ross, who were adept at open heart surgery, whereas Lord Brock was much more at ease with closed heart surgery. Still, students were in awe of the man. Professor Cooper remembers skipping lectures to watch him perform in the operating theatre.

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7 \[m ej^[h f_ed[[hi$$$ To list every physician at Guy’s, King’s College Hospital, King’s College London and St Thomas’ who contributed to better heart care during the fWij Y[djkho mekbZ Ă“bb Wd [dj_h[ _iik[ e\ In Touch. Other notables include: š >[dho 8WhYhe\j" e\ Ij J^ecWiĂŠ" ijkZ_[Z j^[ f^oi_ebe]_YWb [Ăš[Yji e\ ^W[cehh^W][ WdZ developed an instrument to measure the rate e\ XbeeZ Ă”em$ š Working at Guy’s Hospital during World War II, HedWbZ J^ecfied =hWdj studied the physiology WdZ fWj^ebe]o e\ XbeeZ l[ii[bi WdZ j^[ [Ăš[Yji e\ ^W[cehh^W][ ed Y_hYkbWj_ed$ š Guy’s ;Z]Wh Iemjed was a pioneer in the Yh[Wj_ed e\ j^[ YWhZ_WY fWY[cWa[h$ >[ mWi ed[ e\ j^[ Ă“hij ikh][edi _d j^[ KA je f[h\ehc coronary angioplasty, keyhole surgery on the Whj[h_[i e\ j^[ ^[Whj$ š ;hd[ij IjWhb_d]" e\ =koĂŠi" _i h[c[cX[h[Z \eh ÉIjWhb_d]ĂŠi BWmĂŠ" m^_Y^ ijWj[i j^Wj Éj^[ [d[h]o e\ YedjhWYj_ed _i W \kdYj_ed e\ j^[ b[d]j^ e\ j^[ ckiYb[ Ă“Xh[iĂŠ$ >[ Wbie Z_iYel[h[Z i[Yh[j_d WdZ coined the term ‘hormone’.

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a heart, kidney, liver or other organ. 6HYHUDO VXUJHRQV LQ WKH ĘŠĘ’Ę?ʉV DQG Ę?ʉV transplanted hearts from baboons and chimpanzees, each operation unsuccessful due to the recipient’s immunological response. Xenotransplantation research in recent years, however, has zeroed in on pigs. Surgeons have been replacing damaged elements of the KXPDQ ERG\ ZLWK SLJ SDUWV IRU GHFDGHV Ĺ˜ -RKQ Wayne was given a pig heart valve back LQ ĘŠĘ’Ę?Ę‘ Ĺ˜ EXW WKH push now is to genetically engineer pigs to reduce the human body’s immunological reaction. Surgeons are a few years away from putting an entire pig heart into a man or woman, Professor Cooper predicts. However, he says, researchers are close to carrying out clinical trials on transplanting JHQHWLFDOO\ PRGLĆŠHG SRUFLQH SDQFUHDWLF LVOHWV into humans, potentially a tremendous leap forward in the treatment of diabetes, as islets are necessary for the production of insulin. He adds that corneal transplants using genetically engineered pig sources are also not too far in the future. Professor Cooper says he has enjoyed his career immensely as well as the writing he has done on the side. He is disappointed, however, WKDW VHYHUDO RI WKH SLRQHHUV LQ KLV ERRN Ĺ˜ WKH cardiac surgeons who overcame immense PHGLFDO FKDOOHQJHV WR UHSDLU WKH KHDUW Ĺ˜ QHYHU received the widespread public recognition they deserved, despite the fact that their advances have saved countless lives. ‘It’s disgraceful,’ he says, ‘that none of them was awarded a Nobel Prize for open heart surgery.’ Sir Terence’s book, Follow Your Star, is available from Authorhouse. Professor Cooper’s Book, Open Heart, is published by Kaplan.

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KCSMD Clinical Medicine

The Principal’s US East Coast Tour

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We met at King’s A shared love of theatre brought Ben and Sophie Wiseman (Classics, 2006 and Medicine, 2006 respectively) together whilst studying at King’s. They were married in July 2011. Ben: 6RSKLH DQG , PHW DW .LQJĹ›V 0XVLFDO 7KHDWUH 6RFLHW\ LQ Ę‹Ę‰Ę‰ĘŒ , ZDV D IUHVKHU and hoping to gain a part in :HVW 6LGH 6WRU\ 6RSKLH ZDV WKH VKRZĹ›V SURGXFHU and was running the auditions. 6KHbFODLPV QRW WR UHPHPEHU PH IURP that day as there were hundreds of SHRSOH DXGLWLRQLQJ ,Ĺ›P QRW VXUH WKDW ,bFDQ EHOLHYH KHU DV , UHPHPEHU WKDW ,bZDV ZHDULQJ D YHU\ IHWFKLQJ FRUGXUR\ jacket which must have caught her eye! $W WKH HQG RI WKH \HDU 6RSKLH DQG ,bZHUH HOHFWHG 3UHVLGHQW DQG 7UHDVXUHU of the society. We began spending PXFKbPRUH WLPH WRJHWKHU DQG E\ WKH QH[W DXWXPQ WHUP ZKLOVW UHKHDUVLQJ IRUb$Q\WKLQJ *RHV 6RSKLH DQG ,bEHFDPH LQVHSDUDEOH Sophie: :H EHFDPH IULHQGV DQG JUHZ closer and closer until I knew that LW ZDVbLQHYLWDEOH WKDW ZH ZRXOG HQG XS WRJHWKHU ,W ZDV DQ ROG IDVKLRQHG FRXUWVKLS UHDOO\ %HQ ZDV DQG LV the perfect gentleman. Ben: )RU RXU ĆŠUVW GDWH RXU JRRG IULHQG +HOHQ 0XPE\ &ODVVLFV ʋʉʉʎ RƨHUHG us some tickets for 7KH +LVWRU\ %R\V at the National Theatre. They were excellent tickets and after enjoying the show we went for a walk along the 6RXWK %DQN 7KDW ZRXOG KDYH EHHQ DQ H[FHOOHQW SODFH IRU D ĆŠUVW NLVV EXW

Reggie has always loved greeting his public and has even been presented to royalty. On one occasion, however, his hopes of meeting a fellow VIP were dashed by the long arm of the law. Cecil French (Mechanical Engineering, 1948) remembers.

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instead we went for the more romantic location of the bus stop outside 6DLQVEXU\śV /RFDO RQ :DWHUORR 5RDG Sophie: Some of my favourite memories of our student days together are having central London on our doorstep and ZDONLQJ DFURVV :DWHUORR %ULGJH morning and night. Ben: :DWHUORR %ULGJH ZLOO DOZD\V EH ŚRXU EULGJHś , XVHG WR ZDON 6RSKLH DFURVV LW

to catch her bus home after rehearsals. We both knew that she could catch the ĘŠĘ?Ę‹ IURP WKH QRUWK VLGH EXW LW GLGQĹ›W seem necessary to mention it. Sophie: We were married in my hometown of Geneva. We had an amazing day with our friends and IDPLO\ ORWV RI WKHP RYHU IURP /RQGRQ and a fantastic jazz band from London ZKR DOVR ĆŞHZ RYHU

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Community 7KH .&/$ Chairman $QG\ 3DUULVK &KHPLVWU\ ĘŠĘ’Ę?Ę?

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Pamela Jackson (now Martin)

John Wikeley

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7KHRORJ\ ĘŠĘ’Ę?Ę? Still trolling round Europe on the occasional locum duty!

John Cloudsley-Thompson Patricia Brenchley (now Byron-Jones)

*HRJUDSK\ ĘŠĘ’ĘŽĘ‘ Loving the combination of rural life in Hertfordshire and city life in Malaga.

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Rosemary Rushworth (now Oddy)

Frances Jessup

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John Belham

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Class notes Sandra Harmer (now Hopkins)

Alison Mercer (now Sharvill)

Ruth Lass (now Lass-Hargreaves)

Stephen Roberts

Edward Carling

William Fearon

William Burn

Emily Mantell (now Taylor)

(QJOLVK ĘŠĘ’Ę?Ę‘ I am now one of the organising tutors for the new degree in English Literature DQG &RPPXQLW\ (QJDJHPHQW DW %ULVWRO University.

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Robert Ellison

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Michael Mather

+LVWRU\ ĘŠĘ’Ę’Ę‹ I am a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants in England and Wales DIWHU ZRUNLQJ LQ ĆŠQDQFLDO VHUYLFHV VLQFH OHDYLQJ .LQJĹ›V , DP KDSS\ WR RƨHU JXLGDQFH WR DQ\ XQGHUJUDGXDWHV who would like advice in this area.

Susan Cromack (now Free)

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Bonita Thomson

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Jill Brown

0HFKDQLFDO (QJLQHHULQJ ĘŠĘ’Ę?ʉ Will be retiring shortly to go scuba diving around the world.

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*HRORJ\ ĘŠĘ’Ę?ʉ Retired and still writing and travelling. Peter King

/DZ ĘŠĘ’Ę?ʉ I am Chairman of the AKC Alumni *URXS , KDYH MXVW FRPSOHWHG D WZR \HDU SDUW WLPH 0$ DW .LQJĹ›V LQ 7KHRORJ\ 3ROLWLFV DQG )DXOW %DVHG 2UJDQLVDWLRQV Trevor Jones

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'LYLQLW\ ĘŠĘ’Ę?Ę? After a varied and interesting ministry in the Church of England I am now enjoying retirement in Northumberland. 6KHLOD VWLOO FRPPXWHV WR .LQJĹ›V IN TOUCH

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Fiona McPherson

(QJOLVK ĘŠĘ’Ę‘Ę’ Still singing and acting. Nothing high SURĆŠOH EXW QRW EDGO\ SDLG

Melissa Baxter Giles Morrison

3K\VLFV ĘŠĘ’Ę‘Ę’ Have begun reader training in the Church of England.

Simon Castleden (now Henley-Castleden)

$QDWRP\ +XPDQ %LRORJ\ ĘŠĘ’Ę’Ę‹ Left medical school and went into NHS management. Now General 0DQDJHU IRU :RPHQĹ›V 6HUYLFHV DW South London Healthcare NHS 7UXVW 0DUULHG LQ ĘŠĘ’Ę’Ę‘ KHQFH FKDQJH RI QDPH DQG KDYH D GDXJKWHU ERUQ LQ Ę‹Ę‰Ę‰ĘŒ /LYLQJ LQ 2USLQJWRQ .HQW

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Graham Howard

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Philip Sidnell

)RRG 6FLHQFH ʊʒʒʋ I did MSc Food and Management 6FLHQFH ʊʒʑʒ ʒʉ DW WKH .HQVLQJWRQ Campus. I would like to hear from anyone from the same class.

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Martin Blain and Anna Pitts (now Blain)

Samuel Chell

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&ODVVLFDO 6WXGLHV ʋʉʉʉ Helping the elderly and disabled as a member of Disability Cambridgeshire. Undertaking casual study of classics in general.

Attiq Munawar

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Jill Brown and Yates: a familiar sight in their hometown of Salisbury

Muscular Dystrophy Group. I help at Sunday school and raise funds for Dogs IRU WKH 'LVDEOHG D YHU\ ZRUWK\ FKDULW\bZKR WUDLQHG ERWK P\ ZRQGHUIXO DVVLVWDQFH GRJV Ĺ˜ P\ OLIHOLQHV Ĺ› %URZQĹ›V PHPRLUV KDYH EHHQ SXEOLVKHG as :DONLQJ RQ :KHHOV Ĺš,bDOZD\V NHSW D GLDU\ DQG ORYHG OHWWHU ZULWLQJ DQG RYHU

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Stuart Whatton

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Claire Benham (now Parkin)

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Lyndsey Thorpe (now Hookway)

Mark Bennett

6SRUWV /DZ ʋʉʉʎ , JRW PDUULHG LQ ʋʉʊʊ WR .DWH P\ girlfriend of nine years. Priya Acharya

Pharmaceutical Analysis & Quality &RQWURO ʋʉʉĘ? I received my PhD in medicinal FKHPLVWU\ LQ ʋʉʊʉ DQG ZRXOG OLNH WR thank all my past lecturers for my enthusiasm in chemistry! Judy Chung

Arabella Harding

Diana Ford

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Angelina Mcfarlane (now Stephens)

Neelam Halari

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Charlotte Weetman (now Jones)

Kristina Ward-Horner

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3KDUPDF\ ʋʉʉĘ? Relocating from London to Hong Kong. Farzana Hussain

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Helen Yeomans (now Bonnick)

Joanne Ahern

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Clare Henderson

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Queen Elizabeth College

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George Edward Leach

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Institute of Psychiatry Dr Celio Guercio

KCSD Dr Roy Whitlock OBE 'HQWLVWU\ ĘŠĘ’ĘŒĘŽ

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Peter Warren

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Douglas Munns 'HQWLVWU\ ĘŠĘ’Ę?Ę‹ Dennis Plint 'HQWLVWU\ ʊʒʎʉ Basil Morcas 'HQWLVWU\ ĘŠĘ’ĘŽĘ‘ Dr Derek Debuse 'HQWLVWU\ ĘŠĘ’Ę?Ę? Professor A Hamilton 'HQWLVWU\ ĘŠĘ’Ę?Ę‘

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Letters MAURICE WILKINS REMEMBERED

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THE WOMEN IN RED

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Maurice Wilkins: a single tube and a double helix

FROM THE STAGE TO THE SURGERY

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GREER GARSON’S VISIT DATED

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The cortege of King George VI

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THE PASSING OF GEORGE VI

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A GIFT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON UNION

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LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

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The London, Midland & Scottish Railway brought me from Nottingham into the quiet echoes of St Pancras Station. The noise beyond – people, WUDĆŤF ZRUN Ĺ˜ ZDV RYHUZKHOPLQJ %OLQNLQJ , VWHSSHG VORZO\ IRUZDUG LQWR a sooty blue haze. Through it, the sun VKRQH ZDUP DQG JROGHQ -XVW OLNH KRPH HYHU\ERG\ KHUH EXUQHG FRDO too. Urgent people bustled all around. $QG WKH WUDĆŤF 6R PXFK DQG ZKHQ LW GLG PRYH VR IDVW 6XUSULVLQJ P\VHOI I thought, ‘This is where I want to EH , ORYH WKLV SODFH Ĺ› I grew up during the War in the coal-mining Midlands. My dad was D FROOLHU 7KH QHDUHVW ,Ĺ›G EHHQ WR London growing up was a school trip WR +DPSWRQ &RXUW DW ĘŠĘ? , UHFDOO snapping Windsor Castle from the ULYHU 7KH UHVW VHHPV WR KDYH EHHQ about winning the seat next to your desired object on the train. Now, LQ VSULQJ ĘŠĘ’ĘŽĘ‘ , ZDV XS IRU P\ .LQJĹ›V LQWHUYLHZ , VHW Rƨ ZHVW DORQJ WKH (XVWRQ 5RDG ORRNLQJ IRU lunch. This crowded chophouse would do – redolent of school dinners: unappetising but familiar. With only one dish RQ RƨHU VSHHG RI VHUYLFH ZDV LPSUHVVLYH $IWHU my grey lamb chop, PDVK DQG RYHU

Never nowhere to go, never nothing to do

St Pancras Station in 1958, above; Patrick Daley, left, from his days as a student at King’s

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