Gordon Charles Cook

Background

Cook, Gordon Charles was born on February 17, 1932 in Wimbledon, England. Son of Charles Francis and Kate (Grainger) Cook.

Education

Wellingborough Grammar School, Kingston-upon-Thames, Raynes Park Grammar Schools and Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London.

Career

Lecturer in Medicine, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine 1963-1965, 1967-1969, Makerere University, LIganda 1965-1967. Professor, of Medicine, University of Zambia 1969-1974, University of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 1974-1975. Visiting Professor, of Medicine, University of Basrah and Mosul, Iraq 1976.

Senior Lecturer in Clinical Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine since 1976. Consultant Physician, University College Hospital and Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London since 1976. Honorary Consultant Physician, St. Luke’s Hospital for the Clergy' since 1988.

Professor, of Medicine and Chairman Clinical Sciences Department, University of Papua New Guinea 1978-1981. Visiting Professor, of Medicine. Doha, Qatar 1989; Examiner, Royal College, of Physicians, University of London and Makerere, Uganda.

Works

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• book

  • From the Greenwich Hulks to Old St. Pancras: A History of Tropical Disease in London

    (The story of tropical medicine is bound up with the growt...)

  • Tropical Gastroenterology (Oxford medical publications)

• Other Work

  • Author: Tropical Gastroenterology, 1980, From the Greenwich Hulks to Old St. Pancras: A History of Tropical Disease in London, 1992. Editor: Travel-Associated Disease, 1995, Gastroenterological Problems from the Tropics, 1995, Manson's Tropical Diseases, 20th edition, 1996. Contributor articles to professional journals.

Membership

Chairman Erasmus Darwin Foundation, Lichfield, since 1995. Captain Royal Army Medical Corps, 1960-1962, Nigeria. Fellow Royal College Physicians (London), Royal Australasian College Physicians, Royal Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (president 1993-1995), Royal Society Medicine (vice president history of medicine 1994-1996).

Member Osler Club London (president 1993-1995), Baconian Club St. Albans (president 1995-1996), Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine (vice president since 1996), Society Apothecaries of London (examiner, member executive committee), Athenaeum Club, Marylebone Cricket Club, Society Apothecaries.

Interests

• Cricket, cycling, walking, medical history, African and Pacific artefacts.

Connections

Married Elizabeth Jane Agg-Large, June 8, 1963. Children: Rosamund Elizabeth, David Charles Stephen, Caroline Jane, Susanna Catherine.

Father:

Charles Francis Cook

Mother:

Kate (Grainger) Cook

Spouse:

Elizabeth Jane Agg-Large

child:

Rosamund Elizabeth Cook

child:

David Charles Stephen Cook

child:

Caroline Jane Cook

child:

Susanna Catherine Cook