Names on the buses
438 Professor Martin Fisher
Names on the buses
438 Professor Martin Fisher
Connections with Brighton and Hove : Martin became an HIV consultant in Brighton in 1995, just as effective HIV therapy became available, and proceeded over the next 20 years to build a strong department, with a passionate, dedicated and loyal HIV team. His breadth of interest and knowledge, and desire to improve patient care was recognised nationally and internationally. He had a great ability to foresee what a ‘better service’ looked like, and to quickly impart his dream and vision to others, and take them on his journey. He thought of and introduced initiatives LONG before they became established elsewhere in medicine (morbidity & mortality meetings, patient representatives, multidisciplinary team (MDT)). He was so proud of Brighton; his achievements were always for the team, and not for the individual. He was an inspirational leader and networker who brought people together and produced magic! As one patient said “he was a gifted man in pursuit of medical breakthrough and innovation”. But more than anything else, he was an outstanding physician, with a wonderful bedside manner, who treated his patients like they were his own friends and family. Martin died on 20th April 2015.
Volvo Gemini 438 carried name since September 2019.
Photo supplied by The Martin Fisher Foundation