David Hay (cardiologist)
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| birth_name = David Russell Hay
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| birth_place = Christchurch, New Zealand
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| death_place = Christchurch, New Zealand
| fields = Cardiology
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| alma_mater = University of Otago
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Sir David Russell Hay {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CBE|size=85%}} (8 December 1927 – 3 December 2016) was a New Zealand cardiologist and anti-smoking campaigner.
Biography
Born in Christchurch,{{cite news | title=On the trail of a killer | date=30 July 2005 | work=The Press | page=13 | first=Mike | last=Crean}} Hay was one of four children of philanthropist Sir James Hay, including his identical twin brother Sir Hamish Hay and older sister Dame Laurie Salas.{{cite news | url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10531055 | title=Former Christchurch mayor dies | date=8 September 2008 | work=New Zealand Herald | access-date=6 December 2016}} Educated at St Andrew's College,{{cite news | title=Clinical book reviews | date=15 November 2006 | work=New Zealand Doctor}} he spent 1945 at Canterbury University College,{{cite book |editor-last=Taylor |editor-first=Alister |title=New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa 2001 |year=2001 |publisher=Alister Taylor Publishers |location=Auckland |issn=1172-9813}} before going on to study medicine at the University of Otago, graduating MB ChB in 1951.{{cite web |url=http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/university11.html |title=NZ university graduates 1870–1961: Ha–He |access-date=6 December 2016}}
Hay then trained as a cardiologist in Britain, where he was influenced by the work of epidemiologist Sir Richard Doll linking smoking to adverse health outcomes.{{cite journal |last=Easton |first=Brian |author-link=Brian Easton (economist) |date=24 September 2005 |title=Heart Gains: David Hay, pioneer cardiac physician |url=http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/2005/09/heart_gains_david_hay_pioneer_cardiac_physician/ |journal=Listener |access-date=9 February 2015}}{{cite news | url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/87395759/public-health-will-be-smokefree-advocate-sir-david-hays-legacy | title=Public health will be smokefree advocate Sir David Hay's legacy | date=9 December 2016 | work=Stuff.co.nz | access-date=10 December 2016 | first=Jack | last=Fletcher}} He returned to Christchurch in 1955.
In Christchurch in 1958, Hay married Jocelyn Valerie Bell, whom he had met while they were both studying medicine at Otago. The couple went on to have two children. Hay graduated MD from the University of Otago in 1960.
From 1959 to 1984, Hay was employed by the North Canterbury Hospital Board, becoming a prominent cardiologist. He was also a clinical academic at the University of Otago's Christchurch School of Medicine from 1973 to 1988. He was a long-time campaigner against smoking and the tobacco industry in his role as inaugural medical director of the New Zealand Heart Foundation (1977–92). In 1999, Hay retired from the New Zealand Heart Foundation after 30 years, having served as its president from 1996 to 1999.{{cite news | title=Heart Foundation to lose Sir David Hay | date=18 June 1999 | work=The Press | page=6}}
Hay held a range of positions on professional bodies, including vice president of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians from 1988 to 1992, president of the Canterbury branch of the British Medical Association in 1972, and New Zealand chair of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand from 1977 to 1981. In 1977 he was appointed a member of the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel on Tobacco and Health, and in 1987 he became an overseas regional advisor to the Royal College of Physicians.
Hay died in Christchurch on 3 December 2016.{{cite news |url=http://deaths.press.co.nz/obituaries/the-press-nz/obituary.aspx?n=sir-david-hay&pid=182987834 |title=David Hay death notice |date=6 December 2016 |work=The Press |access-date=6 December 2016}} His wife, Jocelyn, Lady Hay, died in 2021.{{cite news |url=https://deaths.press.co.nz/obituaries/the-press-nz/obituary.aspx?n=jocelyn-hay&pid=198359609 |title=Jocelyn Hay death notice |date=17 April 2021 |work=The Press |access-date=18 April 2021}}
Honours and awards
Hay became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1965, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1971. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1981 Queen's Birthday Honours, and a Knight Bachelor in the 1991 New Year Honours, both for services to the New Zealand Heart Foundation.{{London Gazette |issue=48641 |date=13 June 1981 |page=44|supp=3}}{{London Gazette |issue=52383 |date=31 December 1990 |page=29 |supp=2}}
In 1990 Hay was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal, in 1992 he was made a life member of the New Zealand Heart Foundation, and in 1995 he received the World Health Organization Tobacco and Health Medal in recognition of his advocacy of smokefree issues and legislation in New Zealand and internationally.{{cite news | title=Health award | date=20 April 1995 | work=The Dominion | page=3}}
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Category:Medical doctors from Christchurch
Category:People educated at St Andrew's College, Christchurch
Category:University of Canterbury alumni
Category:University of Otago alumni
Category:New Zealand cardiologists
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Category:Fellows of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Category:Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
Category:New Zealand Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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