The Bill Pallister Travelling Fellowship
William (Bill) Knott Pallister FFARCS
Former Consultant Anaesthetist, Middlesex Hospital, London
Born 21st March 1926, Qualified 1949, FFARCS 1955, Died 8th February 2008
Dr Pallister generously granted ACTACC a bequest to be used expressly for the purpose of funding travel to overseas centres.
Applications for an amount of £5,000 will be announced each calendar year. This will usually be paid to a single applicant but may be divided between applicants, at the discretion of the education committee. The award is intended to support a trainee or consultant within three years of appointment to travel to an overseas centre of interest.
Awards will not normally be made to assist with attendance at training courses (for example transoesophageal echo courses) or conferences unless there is a clear benefit to the wider membership of the Association.
Recipients of awards will be expected to write a report for the ACTACC newsletter and give an oral or poster presentation at an ACTACC spring or autumn scientific meeting within 12 months of completing their overseas visit.
Applications need to be submitted by the 31st December each year. Applications will be adjudicated by the ACTACC Education Committee and announced during the Spring Scientific Meeting.
Applicants need to be a current member of ACTACC by the closing date of applications on 31st December each year. For ACTACC membership details, please click here.
If the Award is to be used to part-fund an educational activity, ACTACC will require written confirmation that the rest of the funding required is available before any money is released.
On completion of the form, the ACTACC Administration Team will contact you and request that you provide a copy of your CV and an outline of your intended fellowship.
Application Form
2022 - Dr Tom Keast
Dr Tom Keast MB ChB BMedSci(hons) MRCP FRCA
Anaesthetic Clinical Research Fellow / ST6 at the University of Glasgow / Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow.
The award allowed Tom to undertake a clinical observership at the Yale Division of Applied Hemodynamics, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. The visit represents the beginning of a major collaborative, observational study investigating the Incidence, Impact and Mechanisms of Perioperative Right VEntricular dysfunction (IMPRoVE). Tom hopes to pursue the hypothesis that RV dysfunction following cardiac surgery has, at least in part, an inflammatory aetiology. We wish Tom and his supervisor, Prof Ben Shelley, all the best in their endeavours.
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2019 - Dr David Nagore
Consultant in Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and Cardiac Intensive Care at Barts Cardiac Centre, Barts Health NHS Trust.
My interest for doing a fellowship in the Cleveland Clinic started after I read a headline in an American newspaper: “Cleveland Clinic performs more heart surgery than any other center in the world”. That same night I did some further research and discovered that Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Institute has been the number one ranked cardiac hospital for 23 consecutive years. It is also the United States’ largest specialized cardiovascular center, covering a population of more than four million people across Cleveland, Ohio and beyond. It brings together a wide range of expertise in clinical care, research and education for cardiovascular conditions. It also creates one of the world’s biggest center of excellence for adults with congenital heart disease, transplantation and ventricular assist device implantation. These three subspecialties, are areas that would be beneficial for not only my personal development but that of my institution in the United Kingdom and the NHS. Cleveland Clinic also has broad experience with the treatment for patients with mucopolysaccharidosis condition, now an area under development in my hospital, where I will take part of because of my condition of airway lead of the department.
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2009 - Dr Kirstin Wilkinson
In 2009, Dr Kirstin Wilkinson was awarded £1500 from the Bill Pallister Travelling Fellowship Award in support of travelling expenses to visit the Shahid Gangalal National Heart Centre in Nepal with Southampton Overseas Health and Medicine (SOHMED).
SOHMED is a multi-disciplinary initiative supporting education in global health and building healthcare partnerships between Southampton and the developing world.
Through a core group of clinicians, the Shackleton Department of Anaesthesia at Southampton General, has developed a training programme to assist anaesthesia training in Nepal.