Robert d pacland biography examples

Surgeon and academic

Robert D. Acland, MBBS, FRCS (June 20, – January 6, ) 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 nylon sutures and needles that are still used today.

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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 (). The current edition was revised in ^[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 to , he established and ran the Fresh Tissue Anatomy Dissection Laboratory for surgeons and students