Ballinasloe surgeon is leading specialist in the world

THE election of professor Patrick Gullane as an Honorary Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of England is just the latest in a long list of honours to be bestowed on a Ballinasloe man who is regarded as a worldwide leader in the field of head and neck surgery.He was unanimously elected as an honorary fellow of the college this summer in recognition of his outstanding contribution to surgery, and he will formally receive one of the College’s highest awards at a ceremony on january 19th.In the interim, professor Gullane will travel from his Canadian home in Toronto back to his alma mater in University College Hospital Galway on September 4th where he has accepted an invitation to deliver the 34th Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture, again in recognition of his major contribution to surgery.The Sir peter freyer Memorial Lecture is the most prestigious event in the calendar of the Medical School at the galway University. Sir peter freyer was a graduate of the university, and performed the first opern prostatectomy at the end...