Centre of Excellence
Following are highlights of the achievements made at the hospital over the years:
- The Lockhart-Mummery technique was developed at St Mark’s in the early 1900s by the pioneering cancer surgeon whose name it bears.
- The ‘Dukes’ staging system, still in use, was developed at St Mark’s by Cuthbert Dukes who worked there from around 1920 till 1950.
- David Henry Goodsall 1843–1906 who described Goodsall's rule of anal fistula
- The Ileo-anal pouch, a replacement rectum, was developed at St Mark’s in the 1970s by Alan Parks
- St. Mark's polyposis registry, established in 1924, is the oldest in the world and scientists funded by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, based at St Mark's, played an important role in identifying the APC gene responsible for causing Familial adenomatous polyposis.
- Recent Academic Publications]
Read more about this topic: St. Mark's Hospital
Famous quotes containing the words centre of, centre and/or excellence:
“A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Here in the centre stands the glass. Light
Is the lion that comes down to drink. There
And in that state, the glass is a pool.
Ruddy are his eyes and ruddy are his claws
When light comes down to wet his frothy jaws”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (20th century)