Andrew Bamji

Trained at the Middlesex Hospital, London, he was appointed as a consultant in rheumatology and rehabilitation in 1983 to Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, and retired from the NHS in 2011. President of the British Society for Rheumatology from 2006-2008, he is Gillies Archivist at the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons. He co-edited a rheumatology textbook "Atlas of Clinical Rheumatology" (Gower Medical Publishing, 1986) and contributed to Cecil & Liddle "Facing Armageddon" (Leo Cooper, 1996). As Robin Goodfellow he wrote an items-of-interest column in "Rheumatology" from 200-2005. He has taken part in a number of television programs relating to facial and gender reassignment surgery, the most recent being "The Sex Change Spitfire Ace" (Channel 4, 2015). Author "Faces from the Front" (Helion Press, 2017); "Mad Medicine: Myths, Maxims and Mayhem in the National Health Service" (KDP, 2020); "Anything but a Quiet Life" (KDP, 2020). Lives in Rye, UK.