Specialist registrar in microbiology north west rotation (b London 1974; q Oxford/London 1998; BA), died from complications of cystic fibrosis on 5 January 2004.
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Gareth was diagnosed as having cystic fibrosis at the age of five months. He was the first student with cystic fibrosis to read medicine at Balliol College, Oxford. After pre-registration posts at Guy's Hospital, London, and Furness General Hospital he was appointed a senior house officer in clinical microbiology at North Manchester General Hospital. Despite increasing ill health, the need for twice daily physiotherapy, insulin treatment, and increasingly frequent courses of intravenous antibiotics, Gareth remained cheerful, determined, and enthusiastic about his work and career, and he was appointed as a specialist registrar in microbiology on the north west rotation. But soon after taking up his post his health rapidly deteriorated.
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