Describes Coca‐Cola Foods’ mentoring and coaching programmes. Presents directions for future research and practice based on Coca‐Cola Foods’ experience.
Professor John Leigh Collis, universally known as Jack, received eponymous recognition for two surgical procedures. He was perhaps best known for the Collis gastroplasty for patients with persistent acid reflux and resulting stricture of the lower oesophagus. This innovative and elegant procedure involved the ingenious refashioning of the stomach to replace the strictured oesophagus, and also to recreate the cardiac sphincter so as to maintain its function and continence. The second operation was the Collis repair of the lower oesophagus for patients with hiatus hernia causing reflux. Jack also developed a programme for the management of oesophageal cancer that secured results unsurpassed in any other centre in the world attempting this demanding and hazardous type of surgery. Over 20 years his operative mortality rate was half that of his contemporaries and his suture line leak rate even by today's standards was remarkably low. He gained his early experience of general surgery as resident surgical officer at Birmingham General Hospital. Subsequently, as resident surgical officer at the Brompton Hospital, London, in 1938, he trained under the doyen of British thoracic surgeons, Tudor Edwards. In 1943, he obtained his MD, with honours, for his observations on the development of metastatic cerebral abscess associated with suppurative conditions of the lung, and demonstrated that the route for this infection was by way of the vertebral veins. In 1944 he was awarded a Hunterian professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons.
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