Dr Kit Wynn Parry, MBE's Biography

Dr Kit Wynn Parry, MBE's Professional Career

Career

RAF 1948-75: Gp Capt Med Branch, conslt advsr in rheumatology and rehabilitation, dir of rehabilitation Jt Servs Med Rehabilitation Units RAF Chessington and RAF Headley Court; dir of rehabilitation Royal Nat Orthopaedic Hosps 1975, hon conslt in applied electrophysiology Nat Hosp for Nervous Diseases Queen Square 1975, civil conslt in rheumatology and rehabilitation RAF 1975, chm Disability Ctee RCP London 1978-88, past dir of rehabilitation King Edward VII Hosp Midhurst; currently tstee and hon conslt physician Br Performing Arts Med Tst; fndr and first pres Int Rehabilitation Med Assoc, past pres Physical Med Section RSM, sec Int Fedn of Physical Med, advsr in rehabilitation to Chief Med Offr 1979-86, member Mac Coll Working Pty into Artificial Limb and Appliance Serv 1986-88, pres Br Soc for Surgery of the Hand; Br Cncl visiting lectr and scholar to: Russia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia; hon pres French Soc for Orthoses of the Upper Limb, co-ed International Journal of Rehabilitation Studies, memb Editorial Bd Pain Br Soc for Surgery of the Hand Injury, William Hyde Award for sport and med, Kovacs prizeman RSM, Stanford Cade medallist RAF Med Branch; memb Bd Opera Factory, memb Ct of Assts Worshipful Co of Dyers (Prime Warden 1981-82 and 1984-85); memb: Br Soc for Surgery of the Hand, Br Soc of Rheumatology, Br Soc for Relief of Pain; FRCP, FRCS, hon memb RCM 2011

Dr Kit Wynn Parry, MBE's Publications

Books and Publications

Rehabilitation of the Hand (4 edn, 1982), The Musician's Hand (jtly, 1998); also author of chapters in 22 books and articles on rehabilitation, rheumatology, orthopaedics, pain, peripheral nerve injuries, resettlement, backpain and organisation of servs

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