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SEAN DEVANE 1956-2008
Sean was one of the last of a generation who had interests and expertise in a wide range of specialities. Although his main commitment was to the intensive care of babies on a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit, his other interests included paediatric gastroenterology, the education of medical students and the administration and monitoring of post-graduate training. His thoughtful and intelligent advice and support was greatly appreciated by many aspiring paediatric consultants. Sean gained his medical training at the University of Dublin, where he obtained honours in six subjects, qualifying in 1980. Over the next six years he undertook house officer and SHO posts and obtained a broad experience in a wide range of paediatrics in Ireland, before coming to the UK as an SHO at Cambridge. He then undertook a research fellowship at the Institute of Child health under Prof Dame June Lloyd and Dr Peter Milla which led to his MD thesis. In 1989, he was appointed as lecturer in Child Health at King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry at King’s College Hospital and in 1993 as consultant to the tertiary neonatal intensive care unit (Frederic Still ward) at KCH with a particular interest in developmental gastroenterology. His numerous strengths as a consultant included his abilities to relate to all levels of staff and provide efficient administrative structures to teaching and training programmes (where many others had failed), but above all to bring calm and sense to troubled situations. Sean coped with his prolonged and painful illness with a bravery that humbled all of us. He is grieved by his wife Stephanie and his two sons, Eoin and Aidan, his family, his many friends and colleagues, particularly on “Fred Still” and the babies and families whom he looked after.
Anne Greenough
Professor of Neonatology and Clinical Respiratory Physiology
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