Background
BLUMGART, Leslie was born on December 7, 1931 in South Africa. Son of Harold Herman Blumgart and Hilda Blumgart.
BLUMGART, Leslie was born on December 7, 1931 in South Africa. Son of Harold Herman Blumgart and Hilda Blumgart.
Jeppe High School, Johannesburg, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, University of Sheffield, England.
Lecturer and Deputy Director, Department, of Surgery, Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff 1970-1972. Saint Mungo Professor, of Surgery, University of Glasgow, Honorary Consultant Surgeon, Glasgow Royal Infirmary 1972-1979. Professor, of Surgery and Director Department, of Surgery, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London and Honorary Consultant, Hammersmith Hospital, London 1979-1986.
Professor, of Visceral and Transplantion Surgery, University of Berne and Inselspital Bern, Switzerland since 1986.
Moynihan Fellowship, Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland 1972. Honorary; President Institute Biliary Association 1986.
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, United States of America, Danish Surgical Society 1988. Hong Kong Surgical Society, Hellenic Surgical Society, Los Angeles Surgical Society. Yugoslav Society of Surgery.
Married 1st Pearl Navias in 1955 (deceased), 2nd Sarah Raybould Bowen in 1968.