obituaries – spring 2024

Dr Jill Brock
(b 1937, q 1962, Oxford, d 2 August 2023).

Medical Oncologist. Jill was the founding medical director of Wirral Hospice St John’s. She worked
as a consultant oncologist at Clatterbridge Hospital and also treated paediatric oncology patients at Alder Hey, continuing for twelve years as hospice medical director.

Dr Vijula Thangamalar Jeyaraj
(b 30 November 1969, q 1993, d 16 March 2024 in her home town of Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu, India).

Vijula had worked for a few years in Basildon as a specialist in elderly care and general (internal) medicine. She had become a well-loved member of the local CMF group in that time and was well respected professionally. She had taken a sabbatical to her home country for a few months when she tragically succumbed to a cardiac arrest in the town of her birth.

Other members who have died recently:

Lucy Ault

(b 1973, q 1995, Aberdeen, d 2024), worked in general psychiatry

Dr Leon Le Dune

(b 1934, q 1956, Newcastle, d 2023), GP in Co. Durham

Mr Colin MacKay CBE FRCS

(q 1961 Glasgow, d 17 December 2023), former President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow (1997-2000), Colin was a renowned gastro-intestinal surgeon.

Dr Caroline Martin

(q 2007, Belfast, d 15 February 2024), consultant anaesthetist and a much-loved member of the CMF Northern Ireland family.

Dr Vivien A. Millar

(q 1971, Guys, d 8 May 2024, Liverpool), was a consultant psychiatrist in Liverpool, and involved in convening the Association of Christian Psychiatrists (Northwest Group) in the late 1990s.

Dr Jennifer Salisbury

(q 1965, Cambridge)

Dr Sheila Scotchmer

(q 1945 Glasgow, d 2024, Gloucestershire), consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Dr Ronald Stout

(q 1973, Liverpool, d 2024), consultant oncologist in Manchester