Katherine Conroy

ST8

MA (Cantab) MB BChir FRCS (ORL-HNS), Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK.

Guest Section Editor - Sep/Oct 2023 - ENT

Latest Contribution

Photo of Andrew Foster teaching students at the Kendall School in 1953.

Andrew Foster and deaf education

3 March 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric

This article examines the career of deaf African American, Andrew Foster, and his contribution to deaf education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The history of medicine has often been guilty of attributing great revolutions to a single person (usually a white man)...

Article banner picture showing ENT cut-away of human head teaching model

ENT in this issue...Historical Figures in ENT and Audiology

1 March 2021 |

GUEST SECTION EDITORS Katherine Conroy, ST7 at Manchester Royal Infirmary, Northwestern Deanery, Department of ENT, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK. E: katherine.conroy@cantab.net Prof Ray Clarke, BA, BSc, DCH FRCS, FRCS(ORL), Consultant Paediatric ENT Surgeon, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK;...

Photo showing Clemens von Pirquet with a patient.

Allergy – what’s in a name?

5 October 2020 |

Allergy is defined as an “abnormal immune reaction to an ordinarily harmless substance” [1], however the meaning of the word has taken many forms since its introduction in 1906 by Austrian Paediatrician and Immunologist, Clemens von Pirquet [2]. Combining his...