Barry Jackson (surgeon)

{{Short description|British surgeon}}

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| name = Sir Barry Jackson

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| birth_date = July 1936

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| known_for = *Serjeant Surgeon to The Queen (1991–2001)

• President of the Royal College of Surgeons (1998–2001){{Cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/408336.stm |title=Risk from overworked surgeons |quote=Mr Barry Jackson, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said: "My very desperate concern is that because there is this overworking, there will be occasions when the standard of work performed is less than adequate.}}

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| profession = Surgeon

| field = Gastrointestinal surgery

| work_institutions = St Thomas' Hospital

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Sir Barry Trevor Jackson (born July 1936) is a British surgeon, who, between 1991 and 2001, was Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen, and president of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1998 to 2001.‘Jackson, Sir Barry (Trevor)’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2012; online edn, November 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U21630 accessed 6 Sept 2013] He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2001 New Year Honours, "for services to training and education in surgery".{{Cite web |date=30 December 2000 |title=Surgeons' leader knighted |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1092478.stm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210124205/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1092478.stm |archive-date=10 December 2022 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |publisher=BBC News}}

He served as president of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2002 to 2004.{{Cite web|url=https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/985e5b28-6f07-4e9d-ab80-c1de31209774/|title=Sir Barry Jackson (formerly the Queen's Surgeon and President of the RCS and RSM) - Talk and Q&A|website=talks.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=13 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210124552/https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/985e5b28-6f07-4e9d-ab80-c1de31209774/|archive-date=10 December 2022}} Previously he was a gastrointestinal surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital, London, for over 30 years.{{Cite journal|date=October 2002|title=A President in shirtsleeves|journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine|volume=95|issue=10|pages=518–519|issn=0141-0768|pmc=1279186|doi=10.1177/014107680209501016}}