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Dr Bruce Campbell Ogilvie

Dr Bruce Campbell Ogilvie

Dr Bruce Campbell Ogilvie MB ChB FRCP (Edinburgh) FRCR, formerly Lead Consultant Cardiothoracic Radiologist at the Western and subsequently Southampton General Hospitals from 1976 to 2002, sadly died in the Borders General Hospital, Melrose on Friday 14 July 2017 after a long illness. He was 76.

Bruce was born in Edinburgh and attended Heriot’s School and the Edinburgh University Medical School qualifying in 1965. He was House Physician at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. He spent the next five years training in general medicine in Galashiels, Edinburgh and in Kirkcaldy where he helped establish one of the earliest coronary care units in a district general hospital. He gained his membership of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh with cardiology as his special subject. He spent a year in obstetrics and neonatal paediatrics gaining the Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Dr Ogilvie, who had a great love of the countryside and outdoors, had initially considered a career in forestry or meteorology and perhaps counter-intuitively chose a career mainly involving being seated in a darkened room looking at a screen, but this reflected his view that cardiac radiology was the future diagnostic challenge in medicine.

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14th April 1941 to 14th July 2017

Bruce spent two years in Edinburgh as research fellow and honorary senior registrar developing cardiac catheterisation and coronary angiography as a collaborator in the European Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Trial and doing most of the cardiac radiology there. He obtained the Diploma in Medical Radio-diagnosis and the Fellowship of The Royal College of Radiologists during this time.

In 1976, while seeking a consultant appointment in the Edinburgh area, he was virtually kidnapped by the radiologists and cardiac surgeons in Southampton and appointed as consultant cardiothoracic radiologist to the Wessex cardiothoracic unit at the Western Hospital, Southampton before the unit moved to the Southampton General Hospital in 1983.

Bruce was Visiting Professor in Cardiothoracic Radiology in North Carolina in 1983 where he was introduced to computed tomography (CT) of the thorax by Dr David Delany who joined him as a consultant colleague in Southampton in 1989.

Bruce worked closely with paediatric cardiologists especially Dr Barry Keeton, surgeons Sir Keith Ross and James Monro and pathologists in advancing knowledge that led to significant progress in the understanding and treatment of paediatric heart disease. Together with Dr Neville Conway, consultant cardiologist he performed the first coronary angioplasty in Southampton.

With Dr Delany, thoracic CT and subsequently of one of the earliest UK cardiac magnetic resonance imaging services that provided a 24-hour service for imaging of putative aortic catastrophes, were established.

Dr Ogilvie set up the Southampton Radiology Teaching Library and lectured and taught locally, nationally and internationally. He was lead cardiothoracic radiologist for 20 years and clinical services director for radiology for three years. Nationally, Bruce was a founding committee member of the British and European Societies of Cardiothoracic Radiology, later Chair of the British Society, also Secretary of the Society of Chest Radiologists and Regional Secretary and Chair and later, National Council Member of the British Institute of Radiology.

Bruce was a fabulous teacher, leader and mentor with great patience and huge knowledge. As a doctor he was a true patient-centred professional, as a man a quietly spoken, even humble person, despite his wide-knowledge and huge ability and a much-missed friend.