Monty

Emeritus Professor Monty Losowsky, former Professor of Medicine at St James’s University Hospital and Dean of the Leeds School of Medicine (1989-1994).The email blurb from Faculty summarised his achievements...
 
Professor Losowsky was born and raised in the East End of London and was repeatedly evacuated during the Second World War leading to 14 school moves. He started as an undergraduate student at Leeds School of Medicine in 1949, graduating in 1955 with honours and then studied in Leeds, London, the University of Paris, Harvard University in the United States before returning to Leeds. He was subsequently promoted to Professor of Medicine and this was followed by an appointment to the role of Dean of the School of Medicine from 1989 to 1994. Professor Losowsky retired from the University in 1996. He then became the visiting Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland and the Executive Chairman of the newly opened Thackray Museum in Leeds until he was made Life-President.
 
Professor Losowsky has authored, co-authored or edited 9 books, over 40 chapters and several hundred academic papers. He has also held many positions on national committees and been visiting Professor and given numerous invited lectures in the UK and abroad. He has been President of the British Society of Gastroenterology, member of the General Medical Council and its Medical Advisory Committee, Scientific Governor of the British Nutrition Foundation, Governor of Leeds Grammar School, Chairman of Coeliac UK and Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee of the British Liver Trust. In 2014 he was a recipient of the Leeds Award by Leeds City Council.
 
We all gathered to hear him give a special lecture entitled “A personal journey through 60 years of Leeds medicine”.
 
Monty is the most unassuming, kind, hard-working, caring, passionate, innovative physicians I have ever met. He interviewed me for a position at Jimmy’s in 1983 and it was the hardest (but fairest) interview I had in my career. We worked together to develop (then) ground-breaking educational programmes for clinical staff which grew from strength to strength; indeed continue to do so to this day.
 
Occasionally, on ward rounds I might prevaricate when he asked me a question that I wasn’t sure of the answer to. He knew immediately, and I got the look you see here. I always went and found the answer pronto.

It was so good to meet with him again.