Magill Professors

An innovative department in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care since the early 1900.

1924 Sir Ivan Magill was appointed at the old Westminster Hospital 

1954 John Wyman, First Hunterian Professor at Royal College of Surgeon of England

• Hypotensive anaesthesia – case series over 1000 patients

• Epidural anaesthesia in obstetrics

• Introduction of epidural catheters to prolong analgesia during labour

• Expert in resuscitating the newborn infants

1966 Sir Geoffrey Organe, 1st Professor of Anaesthesia in an English undergraduate school

• The academic department of anaesthesia was established at the Westminster Hospital and it was not until 1970 when the department of anaesthesia became officially the Magill Department of anaesthesia

1974 Cyril Conway, 2nd Professor of Anaesthesia

• Breathing systems – semi-closed systems and how re-breathing occurs his was prolific and also known for his experimental and mathematical appraisal of breathing systems

• Theoretical study of gaseous homeostasis in the Magill circuit

• Low flow systems

1991 Stanley Feldman, 3rd Professor of Anaesthesia

• In collaboration with Neil Soni and Portex Smiths decided to bridge science and clinical practice. The First Magill Symposium of Anaesthesia was launched in November 1991

2000 Mervyn Maze, 4th Professor of Anaesthesia

• Mechanisms of anaesthesia

• Neuroprotection – Xenon

• Concept and animal models for ascertain the mechanism of postoperative cognitive dysfunction

2010 Masao Takata, 5th Professor of Anaesthesia - Present

• Acute lung injury

• Inflammation – Tumour necrosis Factor alpha

• Perioperative Care – Burns Research Centre

2024 – TBC