Team King’s goes on display at Hunterian Museum exhibition

06 June 2023 - Patients and surgeons from King’s College Hospital are part of the Museum’s Transforming Lives display.

Dagmar Turner, who was able to play a violin while surgeons removed her brain tumour, has taken part in a film alongside Professor Keyoumars Ashkan, Professor of Neurosurgery at King’s College Hospital, now on display at the Hunterian Museum.

The Museum’s Transforming Lives digital display features a range of interviews recounting personal experiences of surgery, from both patients’ and the surgeons’ perspectives. It brings lifesaving and life enhancing surgery to life, and focuses on the forging of unique personal and professional bonds between medical professionals and patients.

Professor Keyoumars Ashkan said: “The Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons is one of the oldest, largest and most prestigious museums of anatomy and surgery in the world, and I am proud and honoured to be able to showcase the difference we make to our patients’ lives. Being part of a museum exhibition is rather surreal, but I hope it will be an inspiration for healthcare professionals, science students and the public.”

King’s patient Sherrie Sharpe, who underwent a ground-breaking operation on her unborn baby with spina bifida also features as part of the display, with Professor Kypros Nicolaides, Professor of Fetal Medicine at the Trust. Professor Kypros Nicolaides said: “I have been lucky in my career to have been involved in many of the major discoveries within fetal medicine. It has been extremely rewarding. This field is constantly evolving as we learn more about how we can give unborn babies the very best start in life, and I hope this film will help inspire the next generation of health professionals to keep pushing the boundaries.”