Aileen Adams
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| Born | (1923-09-05) 5 September 1923 (age 100) |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Education | University of Sheffield |
| Occupation | Consultant anaesthetist |
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Aileen Kirkpatrick Adams CBE, FRCS, FRCA (born 5 September 1923) is a British retired consultant anaesthetist. She turned 100 in September 2023.[1]
Aileen Adams was born on 5 September 1923. She graduated from the University of Sheffield.
Adams worked as a junior anaesthetist at Addenbrooke's Hospital from 1946 to 1951); as a senior registrar in Bristol from 1952 to 1955; a fellow in anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1955 to 1957; as a locum consultant in Oxford from 1958 to 1959); as a senior lecturer at Lagos University Medical School from 1963 to 1964), and was appointed a consultant anaesthetist back at Addenbrooke' from 1960 to 1984.[2][3]
She was also an associate lecturer at Cambridge University from 1967 to 1984.[2]
She was dean of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons (later the Royal College of Anaesthetists) from 1985 to 1988.[2][4]
She served as president of the History of Anaesthesia Society from 1990 to 1992, of the History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1994 to 1995; and of the British Society for the History of Medicine from 2003 to 2005.[2]
She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA).[2]
Adams, Aileen; Blythe, Max (1996). "Dr Aileen K Adams CBE FRCA in interview with Dr Max Blythe: Interview 1, Part 1". Oxford Brookes University. doi:10.24384/000016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Adams, Aileen; Blythe, Max (1996). "Dr Aileen K Adams CBE FRCA in interview with Dr Max Blythe: Interview 1, Part 2". Oxford Brookes University. doi:10.24384/000017. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Adams, Aileen; Blythe, Max (2001). "Dr Aileen K Adams CBE FRCA in interview with Dr Max Blythe: Interview 2". Oxford Brookes University. doi:10.24384/000018. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
