Alan Gilston

Gilston was Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist at the National Heart Hospital from 1967 to 1990.^[3] On 3 May 1968, he acted as anaesthetist for the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom, which was also only the eleventh in the world.^[3]

A founder of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, he also served as its president.^[3]

He initiated the first World Congress on Intensive Care in 1974, and was its secretary-general.^[3]

He was founder and chairman of the Intensive Care Society. He later gave the society's inaugural Gilston Lecture, named by the society in his honour, and received their silver Medal.^[2][3]

He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS), and a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FFARCS).^[3]

• Alan Gilston on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website

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