Barry Jackson (surgeon) explained

Honorific Prefix:	Sir
Barry Trevor Jackson
Birth Date:	July 1936
Known For:	Serjeant Surgeon to The Queen (1991–2001) President of the Royal College of Surgeons (1998–2001)^[1]
Profession:	Surgeon
Field:	Gastrointestinal surgery
Work Institutions:	St Thomas' Hospital

Sir Barry Trevor Jackson FRCS FRCP FRCSGlas (born July 1936), is a British 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).
• 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).

Notes and References

1. Web site: 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. Web site: 30 December 2000 . Surgeons' leader knighted . https://web.archive.org/web/20221210124205/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1092478.stm . 10 December 2022 . www.bbc.co.uk . BBC News.
4. Web site: Sir Barry Jackson (formerly the Queen's Surgeon and President of the RCS and RSM) - Talk and Q&A. talks.ox.ac.uk. en. 13 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20221210124552/https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/985e5b28-6f07-4e9d-ab80-c1de31209774/. 10 December 2022.
5. October 2002. A President in shirtsleeves. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 95. 10. 518–519. 0141-0768. 1279186. 10.1177/014107680209501016.