Education
He was educated at Bedford Modern School and the University of London.
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Anthony Andreasen
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Professor Anthony Turner Andreasen FRSE Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh FICS Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons was an eminent surgeon, Chair of Surgery at Orissa Medical School, Chair of Surgery at the Calcutta Medical College, Surgeon to the Viceroy of India, Fellow of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University, Government Surgeon in Ghana and Uganda, author and in his later years Professor of Surgery at the University of Cambridge.
Career
Anthony Turner Andreasen was born on 18 November 1906. Andreasen had a distinguished career in the Indian Medical Service holding chairs of surgery in Orissa and Calcutta and acting as surgeon to the Viceroy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 1 March 1943.
After the war, Andreason was invited to the United States to continue his pioneering research into open heart surgery and became Fellow of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University.
His paper on low-flow physiology in the 1952 British Journal of Surgery greatly influenced the work of C. Walton Lillehei who was also at Johns Hopkins University. Andreasen returned to Britain in 1954 to conduct further research before taking up the post of government surgeon in Ghana and Uganda.
On his return to England in 1976 he took up a Professorship at the University of Cambridge. Andreasen himself died on 8 June 1986.
