Obituaries
Diana Brandenburger
Diana Brandenbuger, art therapist at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture since 1997 and artist in residence, died in February 2008.
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Sir Raymond Hoffenberg
Eminent phsician Sir Raymond Hoffenberg, a former President of the Royal College of Physicians, and political exile from South Africa during the days of apartheid, was a patron of the MF from the early days of the organisation. Born 16 March 1923, he died 22 April 2007. Read more>>
Pioneering MF doctor who campaigned to have political rape seen as torture
Dr Petra Clarke, an MF doctor who campaigned to change British medical and legal opinion by arguing that politically motivated rape was both torture and a crime, died in January 2007. Read more>>
Former EastEnders actress who ran the MF's Holiday Scheme
Madeline Blakeney, a former stage and television actress who for a number years as a volunteer ran the MF's Holiday Scheme, died in September 2006.
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Neurologist who cared for torture victims and developed human rights medicine
Neurologist Dr John Rundle, who worked as an examining doctor for both the Medical Foundation, and the Helen Bamber Foundation, and helped shape the nascent field of human rights medicine, died July 2006. Read more>>
Dr Duncan Forrest
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Dr Duncan Forrest, a former President of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, was from his retirement in 1987 until his death a senior examining doctor with the MF, and author of several books on torture. Born December 19 1922; died December 2 2004.
Dr Derek Robinson
Consultant paediatrician Dr Derek Robinson was a leading authority on the ageing process of adolescents - of crucial importance to young refugees who the Home Office sought to prove were adults masquerading as teenagers. He was murdered with his wife Jean at their north London home in September 2004. Read more>>