Peter Campbell Clifford

Mr P C Clifford, consultant in general and vascular surgery at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol died suddenly on 21st February 1989 aged 39. Peter Campbell Clifford was born in December 1949 in Ruislip, Middlesex and was educated at the Royal Masonic School in Bushey. He studied medicine at Bristol University graduating MB ChB in 1973. After house jobs at Frenchay and Southmead hospitals he was appointed pathology demonstrator at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. Following this he was a Senior House Officer and Registrar at Swindon and the Middlesex Hospital, London and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1978. He returned to Bristol as a British Heart Foundation Fellow where he developed his interest in vascular surgery whilst studying the techniques of non-invasive blood flow monitoring in the vascular studies laboratory at the Royal Infirmary. For this work he was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Bristol in 1982. From Bristol he moved to Southampton to take up the post of Senior Registrar to the Wessex region. A sabbatical year in 1983 at the Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, enabled him to gain unique experience in vascular trauma. Returning