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Robert Zachary

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surgery, and campaigned for all surgery on newborns to be done by specifically trained paediatric surgeons. He developed an international reputation for his expertise on surgical management of
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and wrote of his connection with spina bifida patients: "In my own small way I feel a common bond with all those who have spina bifida when I say, 'We who were born with a deformed spine...'"
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and served as president in 1962–63. He received numerous awards and honorary appointments; these included a personal chair in paediatric surgery at
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to Samuel John Zachary, a dentist, and Priscilla Mary (née Owen). He earned a
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Knights Commander with Star of the Order of St. Gregory the Great
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Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
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paediatric surgeon
Sheffield Children's Hospital
spina bifida
hydrocephalus
Pudsey
Bachelor of Pharmacy
University of Leeds
Royal College of Surgeons
orthopaedics
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
paediatric surgery
Boston Children's Hospital
Sheffield Children's Hospital
Denis Browne
Great Ormond Street Hospital
neonatal
spina bifida
hydrocephalus
John Lorber
John Sharrard
scoliosis
British Association of Paediatric Surgeons
Sheffield University
Order of St. Gregory the Great
theatre nurse
Leeds General Infirmary
Grand Falls-Windsor
"Survival and Paralysis in Open Myelomeningocele with Special Reference to the Time of Repair of The Spinal Lesion"
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
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