Background
Croft, Desmond Nicholas was born on June 14, 1931 in Devonport, England. Son of Charles Richard and Phyllis Mary (Lee) Croft.
Croft, Desmond Nicholas was born on June 14, 1931 in Devonport, England. Son of Charles Richard and Phyllis Mary (Lee) Croft.
Master of Arts, Oxford (England) University, 1957. DM, Oxford (England) University, 1966.
Resident, St. Thomas Hospital, London, 1957-1959; medical registrar, senior medical registrar, St. Thomas & West Middlesex Hospitals, London, 1961-1964; medical fellow to, Professor F.J. Ingelfinger, Boston, 1964-1965; senior medical registrar, St. Thomas Hospital, London, 1965-1969; consultant physician, clinical director nuclear medicine, St. Thomas Hospital, London, 1961-1994.
Captain British Army, 1959-1961. Fellow Royal College Physicians, Royal College Radiologists, Royal Society Medicine. Member British Nuclear Medical Society (president 1976), British Society Gastroenterology, Clinical Research Society, European Nuclear Medicine Society (founder), European Union of Medical Specialists (president nuclear medicine section since 1990).
Married Hilary Diana Rendle, February 6, 1960. Children: Charles Desmond, Nicholas Michael, Hilary Mary.