ONE FAMILY, 1T5R0INYIETAYRHSISOTFORY AINNTDEIRMNMAETAIOSUNRAALBIMLEPACT The Trinity ancestry of US-based Peter Heseltine MA (1969), MB BCh BAO (1971) includes giants of science, medicine and the first ever female MA graduate. Over the course of its 150year connection to Trinity, his family has produced quite an extraordinary array of individuals who have made equally extraordinary contributions to society. I grew up in a medical family who, for over two centuries served their communities and in the case of my parents and step-father, a larger world. The guiding examples these strong women and men set for me, their passion for science and public service, despite war and prejudice, After graduating from Trinity, Peter completed his postgraduate training at Yale University and UCLA. He spent the next 22 years as an academic researcher in HIV/AIDS, surgical infections, vaccines and public health epidemiology as Professor of Medicine at University of Southern California. Throughout this time, he served as attending physician at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center. From 2000-2016, he worked in industry, sequentially as chief medical officer of three high throughput and specialty medical laboratories, and a scientific and medical device manufacturing company. Peter is Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, Irvine and attending physician at UCI Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Chemistry seem timeless and relevant. Trinity has been the foundation of my family’s science training for more than 150 years. My great-grandfather, the Rev Canon Robert Baker Stoney went to Trinity Divinity School in the 1860s. The Canon had a twin brother Surgeon-LieutenantColonel Charles Baker Stoney who graduated from Trinity in 1863 and lived in Waterloo Road with his uncle George Johnstone Stoney FTCD, BA (1848) MA (1852), astronomist and physicist who coined the term “electron”. My grandfather's uncles James and Hugh also graduated from Trinity as medical doctors. and a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Click to continue reading
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