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Archibald Mcindoe biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Sir Archibald Mcindoe

Author Name:

Sir Archibald Mcindoe

Born As:

Other Names:

Dr. Sir Archibald Mcindoe

Born:

04 May 1900

Died:

11 Apr 1960




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Plastic Surgeon                          
Selected Works:

The Reconstruction of Warriors: Archibald McIndoe, The Royal Air Force and the Guinea Pig Club. Greenhill Books.

Faces from the Fire: The biography of Sir Archibald McIndoe. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson - Leonard Mosley -1962.                           
Mother Mabe Hill
Father John McIndoe
Wife Adonia Aitken, two daughters.                          
Worked for the Royal Air Force during World War II.

Received a knighthood in 1947 for his remarkable work on restoring the minds and bodies of the burnt young pilots of World War II through his innovative reconstructive surgery techniques.

Three doctors – Sir Michael Wood, Sir Archibald McIndoe and Dr. Tom Rees founded The African Medical and Research Foundation - AMREF - 1957, and has many awards such as:

Gates Award for Global Health - 2005
The award, worth $1 million, was established in 2000 by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, and is given annually to the organisation that they consider to have made a major and lasting contribution to the field of global health.

Medical Honors Award - 2004
AMREF received the Medical Honors Award from Discovery Health Channel, USA for its extraordinary lifesaving work of nearly 50 years in improving the health of millions of people in Africa.

Conrad Hilton Humanitarian Award - 1999
The world’s largest humanitarian award which honors tireless commitment by AMREF to bring health care services to the most remote areas of the continent. The Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize was established by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in 1996. The annual $1.5 million dollar award honors a charitable or non-governmental organisation that has made extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering anywhere in the world.                          
The McIndoe Burns Centre at his former base, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, was dedicated in 1994, and a Burns Victim Support Group Centre also bears his name.