Robert d pacland biography of christopher

Surgeon and academic

Robert D. Acland, MBBS, FRCS (June 20, 1941 – January 6, 2016) was a surgeon and academic credited with being one of the pioneers in plastic and reconstructivemicrosurgery.

He was the younger son of Richard Acland and his wife Anne.^[1] He developed one of the first microsurgical instruments, the Acland micro-vessel clamp,^[2] as well as the 10-0 nylon sutures and needles that are still used today.

Robert d pacland biography of christopher

He published the first edition of Acland's Practice Manual for Micro-vascular Surgery, also known as the "Red Book", a manual on microsurgical techniques (1997). The current edition was revised in 2008^[3] and is still an essential tool for any trainee in microsurgical techniques and fundamentals of surgical microscopes and their use.

Acland was also a clinical anatomist and became a pioneer in the field of fresh tissue dissection. From 1981 to 2011, he established and ran the Fresh Tissue Anatomy Dissection Labora