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Howard William Steer
Consultant Surgeon for Southampton General Hospital
BackgroundHe was born and brought up in Neath, South Wales. He studied medicine at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London. The study of anatomy featured significantly in his medical education. It was during
this time that he acquired his early knowledge of ultrastructure and histochemistry. He gained a B.Sc. (first class honours) degree in anatomy from the University of London in 1965 prior to carrying out
research on the implantation of blastocysts into endometrium for a Doctor of Philosophy degree (University of London) in 1968.
His medical education continued at St. Thomas’s Hospital where he qualified in 1970 gaining honours in Surgery. His research into benign peptic ulceration started in Southampton with Professor Duncan Colin Jones in 1971.
His training in immunology took place whilst working with Professor Sir Peter Morris at the Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford. The department had a major immunological and transplantation research interest.
It was during this time that he had the opportunity to spend one year carrying out research at the Medical Research Council’s Cellular Immunology Unit, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford.
He is an Hunterian Professor (2004/2005) of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and made a presentation to the Society of Academic and Research Surgery (Newcastle upon Tyne, 12th January 2005) entitled "Helicobacter pylori and benign peptic ulceration".
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