Derek Hockaday interviews Chris Winearls, consultant nephrologist and associate professor of medicine, 4 March 2015.
Chris Winearls (part 1)
Loading Video...
Part 1 of interview. Topics discussed include: (00:00:00) coming to England from South Africa; (00:04:20) DPhil in transplantation; (00:12:26) reflections on medical school and students (00:13:43) nursing in Oxford compared to Cape town; (00:15:01) experiences with senior registrar Bob Simpson; (00:21:20) registrar role in 1979; (00:24:50) work at the Hammersmith hospital and erythropoietin, working with Mary Cotes; (00:30:45) comparing Hammersmith and Oxford upon return to Oxford in 1988; (00:34:51) returning to the kidney unit at Oxford; (00:37:41) balancing clinical and research duties; (00:41:55) transplantation changing the clinical scene; (00:45:10) connection between erythropoietin and oxygen sensing work; (00:47:33) working at Churchill rather than the John Radcliffe; (00:50:17) importance of pathology to renal work; (01:01:43) conferences and media work; (01:04:29) textbooks and editing; (01:08:13) acting as senior principal examiner in medicine and restructuring exams; (01:10:09) work with biochemists; (01:17:07) reflections on medical career.
People:
Keywords:
More in this Series...
The Recollecting Oxford Medicine oral history project originated when Peggy Frith, as President of Oxford Medical Alumni, recognised the potential of recorded interviews to capture stories, memories and voices from the Oxford Medical school and Oxford Hospitals. The interviewees were selected to cover, from an Oxford perspective over almost a century, the many changes in the practice of medicine and medical teaching, of both local and national importance. The material would supplement the...