Prof. Charles Raphael GILLISAge: 84 years1937–2022
- Name
- Prof. Charles Raphael GILLIS
- Name prefix
- Prof.
- Given names
- Charles Raphael
- Surname
- GILLIS
- Hebrew
- צ'רלס רפאל גיליס
- Hebrew
- בצלאל רפאל ב´ר מנחם מענדעל
- Romanized
- Betzalel Rafael ben Menachem Mendel
Birth | October 23, 1937 (Heshvan 18, 5698) 27 33 Glasgow, Scotland - גלסגו, סקוטלנד |
Death of a maternal grandmother | Minnie WOBER August 31, 1939 (Elul 16, 5699) (Age 22 months) Address: Glasgow - Western Necropolis - Burial
Section: WE,
Row: T,
Plot: T09
Cause: Kilmarnock Road, Glasgow - Compound fracture to head - traffic accident Source: Scottish Jewish Cemeteries Publication: http://www.scottishjewishcemeteries.org/ Citation details: https://scottishjewishcemeteries.org/burial/b-west-we-t-09/ Text: Glasgow - Western Necropolis - Burial Record
Surname :
LevineFull Name :
Minnie Levine [ Nee Wobber ]
Hebrew Name - ( מינה בת ר´ אהרן שלמה )
Mina Bas Reb Aaron ShlomoAge :
[ 60 y ]
Date Of Death :
31-Aug-1939Time :
No TimeSunset :
BeforeBurial Date :
31-Aug-1939
Address :
19 Elliot Avenue G46Hospital :
Kilmarnock Road Near Junction With Park Road G46
Hebrew Date :
16-Ellul-5699Gender :
gen-fHusband = Unknown ( m19## )
No Memorial Board
Date Of Birth :
##-###-1879Latitude :
55.899444Longitude :
-4.279714GPS LOCATE
Section :
WERow :
TPlot :
T09New Reference :
WE-T-09 |
Death of a paternal grandmother | Rebecca Mira MARKS September 2, 1952 (Elul 12, 5712) (Age 14 years) Glasgow, Scotland - גלסגו, סקוטלנד Address: 40 Nithsdale Road, Glasgow Publication: http://glasgowhebrewburialsociety.org/Glenduffhill/Index.htm Citation details: http://glasgowhebrewburialsociety.org/Glenduffhill/burial_glen_f_140.HTM Text: Gillis, Rebecca
Date of Death: 02/09/1952
Hebrew Name: Riva Miriam Bas Reb Menachem Mendel
Age: 89
Hebrew Date: 12-Ellul-5712
Address: 40 Nithsdale Road
Burial Date: 03/09/1952
Section: F, Row: 16, Plot: 140
New Reference: R16-064 Source: Scottish Jewish Cemeteries Publication: http://www.scottishjewishcemeteries.org/ Citation details: http://scottishjewishcemeteries.org/glenduffhill/b_glen_f_140.html Text: Glenduffhill Cemetery - Burial Record
Surname :-
Gillis Full Name :-
Rebecca Gillis
Hebrew Name - ( ריבה מרים בת ר´ מנחם מנדל )
Riva Miriam Bas Reb Menachem Mendel Age :-
92
Date of Photo 16-Nov-2014
Date Of Death :-
02-Sep-1952 Time :-
n/a Sunset :-
Before Burial Date :-
03-Sep-1952
Address :-
40 Nithsdale Road G41 Hospital :-
n/a
Hebrew Date :-
12-Ellul-5712 Gender :-
gen-f SPOUSE MEMORIAL BOARD
Date Of Birth :-
##-###-1860 Latitude :-
55.856373 Longitude :-
-4.136851 GPS LOCATE
Section :-
Row_16 Row :-
F Plot :-
140 New Reference :-
R16-064
Notes :-
[DC][Should be Aged 92] Type :-
glen-occupied |
Death of a father | Manuel Mendel “Manny” GILLIS July 29, 1960 (Av 5, 5720) (Age 22 years) Glasgow, Scotland - גלסגו, סקוטלנד Address: Burial: Cathcart cemetery, Glasgow,
Row B33 Source: Scottish Jewish Cemeteries Publication: http://www.scottishjewishcemeteries.org/ Citation details: https://scottishjewishcemeteries.org/burial/b-cath-b-033/ Text: Glasgow - Cathcart Cemetery - Burial Record
Surname :
GillisFull Name :
Manuel { Mendel } Gillis
Hebrew Name - ( מנחם מנדל ב´ר יחזקאל )
Menachem Mendel Ben Yechezkel
Age :
[ 50 y ]
Date Of Death :
{] 29-Jul-1960 [}Time :
No TimeSunset :
BeforeBurial Date :
29-Jul-1960
Address :
No AddressHospital :
No Hospital
Hebrew Date :
5-Av-5720Gender :
gen-mWife = Maisie Gillis ( m1936 )
No Memorial Board
Date Of Birth :
{] ##-###-1910 [}Latitude :
55.810500Longitude :
-4.260603GPS LOCATE
Section :
Row-BRow :
BPlot :
33New Reference :
B-33 |
Death of a mother | Maisie Mary LEVINE April 21, 1991 (Iyar 7, 5751) (Age 53 years) Glasgow, Scotland - גלסגו, סקוטלנד Address: Burial: Cathcart Hebrew - Row M55 Source: Scottish Jewish Cemeteries Publication: http://www.scottishjewishcemeteries.org/ Citation details: https://scottishjewishcemeteries.org/burial/b-cath-n-055/ Text: Glasgow - Cathcart Cemetery - Burial Record
Surname :
GillisFull Name :
Maisie { Mary } Gillis [ Nee Levine ]
Hebrew Name - ( מרים בת ר´ בצלאל )
Miriam Bas Reb BetzalelAge :
[ 87 y ]
Date Of Death :
21-Apr-1991Time :
No TimeSunset :
BeforeBurial Date :
21-Apr-1991
Address :
No AddressHospital :
No Hospital
Hebrew Date :
7-Iyar-5751Gender :
gen-fHusband = Manuel Gillis ( m1936 )
No Memorial Board
Date Of Birth :
20-Dec-1903Latitude :
55.810113Longitude :
-4.260913GPS LOCATE
Section :
Row-NRow :
NPlot :
55New Reference :
N-55 |
Occupation | Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, Director between 1972 (5732) and 2001 (5761) (Age 34 years)Address: Ruchill Hospital,
Ruchill St,
Glasgow G20 9RL,
United Kingdom Employer: West of Scotland Cancer Surveillance Unit, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow Phone: +44 7451 227919 |
Residence | Address: 20 Craignethan Road,
Whitecraigs,
Glasgow, G46 6SQ |
Death | July 17, 2022 (Tamuz 18, 5782) (Age 84 years) Address: Burial: Western Necropolis, Glasgow,
Section: NEA, Row: D, Plot: D07 Source: Scottish Jewish Cemeteries Publication: http://www.scottishjewishcemeteries.org/ Citation details: https://scottishjewishcemeteries.org/burial/b-west-nea-d-07/ Text: Glasgow - Western Necropolis - Burial Record
Surname :
GillisFull Name :
Charles R Gillis
Hebrew Name - ( בצלאל רפאל ב´ר מנחם מענדעל )
Betzalel Rafael Ben Menachem Mendel
Age :
84 y
Date Of Death :
17-Jul-2022Time :
12:00 hrsSunset :
BeforeBurial Date :
20-Jul-2022
Address :
6/1 Barcapel Avenue G77Hospital :
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital G51
Hebrew Date :
18-Tammuz-5782Gender :
gen-mWife = Judith ( Naftalin ) Gillis ( m1964 )
No Memorial Board
Date Of Birth :
23-Oct-1937Latitude :
55.899095Longitude :
-4.278899GPS LOCATE
Section :
NEARow :
DPlot :
D07New Reference :
NEA-D-07
Notes : |
Family with parents |
father |
Manuel Mendel “Manny” GILLIS מענדל גיליס Birth: 1910 (5670) 43 47 — Sunderland, England Death: July 29, 1960 (Av 5, 5720) — Glasgow, Scotland |
mother |
Maisie Mary LEVINE מאזי לוין Birth: December 20, 1903 (Tevet 1, 5664) 26 24 — Glasgow, Scotland Death: April 21, 1991 (Iyar 7, 5751) — Glasgow, Scotland |
Marriage: 1936 (5696) — Glasgow, Scotland |
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22 months himself |
Prof. Charles Raphael GILLIS צ'רלס רפאל גיליס Birth: October 23, 1937 (Heshvan 18, 5698) 27 33 — Glasgow, Scotland Death: July 17, 2022 (Tamuz 18, 5782) — Glasgow, Scotland |
Death | Scottish Jewish Cemeteries Publication: http://www.scottishjewishcemeteries.org/ Citation details: https://scottishjewishcemeteries.org/burial/b-west-nea-d-07/ Text: Glasgow - Western Necropolis - Burial Record
Surname :
GillisFull Name :
Charles R Gillis
Hebrew Name - ( בצלאל רפאל ב´ר מנחם מענדעל )
Betzalel Rafael Ben Menachem Mendel
Age :
84 y
Date Of Death :
17-Jul-2022Time :
12:00 hrsSunset :
BeforeBurial Date :
20-Jul-2022
Address :
6/1 Barcapel Avenue G77Hospital :
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital G51
Hebrew Date :
18-Tammuz-5782Gender :
gen-mWife = Judith ( Naftalin ) Gillis ( m1964 )
No Memorial Board
Date Of Birth :
23-Oct-1937Latitude :
55.899095Longitude :
-4.278899GPS LOCATE
Section :
NEARow :
DPlot :
D07New Reference :
NEA-D-07
Notes : |
Source | Norman Gillis - genealogical research |
Source | Geni Website Publication: http://www.geni.com/home Citation details: https://www.geni.com/people/Charles-Gillis/354933733070006692 Text: Charles Gillis
Enter his email
Gender: Male
Current Location: Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Birth: estimated between 1915 and 1971
Immediate Family:
Son of Mendel Gillis and Maisie (Mary) Gillis
Husband of Judith Gillis
Father of Mark Gillis and Amanda Gillis
Added by: Susanna Louise Clapham on August 8, 2007
Managed by: Jon Aron Seligman, Reva Hill, Susanna Louise Clapham and Mark Gillis |
Source | Lawrence Schmulian - genealogical research |
Occupation | PROFESSOR CHARLES GILLIS was the founder and Director of the West
of Scotland Cancer Surveillance Unit, between 1972 and 2001, at
Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow, where the MIDSPAN studies were also
based, during his period as Chairman of the MIDSPAN Steering
Committee from 1978–2001. |
Occupation | The Epidemoology of Respiratory Impairment and Disease in Two Generations of the Renfrew and Paisley (MIDSPAN) Study
European Respiratory Journal
Mar 2006
Graham Watt, David Hole, Charles Gillis, Victor Hawthorne
Measures of respiratory symptoms and function have been studied in two successive generations over a 25-yr period, based on a larger original cohort of 15,411 males and females aged 45-64 yrs and a subsequent family study comprising 2,338 adult sons and daughters aged 36-59 yrs from 1,477 families. Poor respiratory health is a dominant feature of the original cohort, in association with high rates of socioeconomic deprivation and mortality rates from all causes. Measures of COPD, such as the Medical Research Council (MRC) chronic bronchitis questionnaire, hospital admissions and death certification, underestimate the contribution of measured respiratory impairment to poor health and premature mortality. Cigarette smoking within families is a predictor of future ill health in family members, as shown by the associations between passive smoking and cardiorespiratory health in cohabiting adults and between maternal smoking and reduced FEV in adult offspring. The prevalence of chronic sputum production and cigarette smoking has fallen between the generations, whereas the prevalence of hay fever and atopic asthma has increased. These trends and the aggregation of respiratory impairment within families provide many opportunities for further investigation. |
Note | Transcript of Speech by Charles Gillis given on Saturday 26 November 2005 in
Paisley Town Hall
Review of the Renfrew/Paisley Study
by Charles Gillis
The first thing that comes into my mind when remembering the beginnings of Midspan was
sitting across a first class railway carriage from Lord Muirsheil who, as well as being
Secretary of State for Scotland, was the first chairman of the King Edward Memorial Trust. I'm
not sure I knew this at the time, but what has impressed itself on my memory, was the
succession of people coming up to him in the corridor and going away with either a smile or
the reverse - There was an atmosphere of power!
I was first introduced to him at a meeting of the workers Victor has just mentioned which took
place in Eastwood House in 1970. I was struck by how much he knew about the detail of
Midspan and how he managed to speak to us in such a challenging and engaging way. He
obviously had the activities of the Trust at heart, particularly their insistence, that whatever we
did, it had to be relevant to tuberculosis so that from the earliest time we knew Victor was
right to try and extend the screening process for tuberculosis into the non communicable
diseases - particularly chest and heart disease. We greatly benefited too from the activities of
Sir John Crofton of the Chest, Heart and Stroke Association and Mrs Douglas Johnston of the
Red Cross who managed to recruit people and funds for our work of attempting to seek
evidence from Scotland to add to the emerging studies of chest and heart disease coming
from Michigan, Minneapolis, New Jersey and London where Victor worked with Donald Reid
and Geoffrey Rose, pioneers of what Victor expressed in his teaching and research as `the
population as a patient` - a phrase which helped many, including me, to study how public
health research really works.
What I'm saying is that from the first we had personal contact with people who either
collected, distributed public funds or provided volunteers for research here in the west of
Scotland. That gave us an ethical imperative to try to do it as right as possible.
At that time there was none of the cumbersome machinery that has created in the name of
trust so many hoops current researchers now have to jump through in the name of protecting
the public. Each of us here knows that trust is a construct which matters only in the mind of
the researcher and of the population or patient being studied, and is not easily won. Is there
really a process which can define it? Even so a glance at any newspaper tells us how much
the medical and scientific professions have lost in trust from the time we began Midspan that I
feel it is appropriate for me in the name of thanking the King Edward Memorial Trust and the
participants of Midspan on this celebratory occasion to demonstrate that what we did all these
years ago actually conforms to current ethical standards of research practice. It is important to
do so for there are no past Midspan participants. All Midspan participants are immortal - to us,
the research team. We will follow you and yours for ever! Like me, you may have enjoyed
reading the Ladies No1 Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith-which he wrote in his
spare time as professor of law and medical ethics at Edinburgh. He also wrote a textbook of
how the law currently relates to medical ethics. He wrote (lest you think this is an exercise in
self-indulgence) that`...ethical discourse is concerned with the search for justification of our
actions`
That means obtaining the approval of an appropriate body. Who better than those here today
who are broadly representative of society here in Renfrew/Paisley and the medical and
scientific professions. Our only problem is that we are not independent. By coming here you
have demonstrated your interest in what our studies have achieved and that fulfils one of the
most important ethical obligations to tell you as clearly as possible what Midspan has
achieved for the people of Renfrew and Paisley and the broad scientific community. Even that
important drawback is overcome by the fact that most of what we have to tell you is published
in peer- reviewed journals with independent editorial boards. I now feel I can ask whether
Midspan could have received permission to go ahead if it was starting now.
Ethical approval is what the National Health Service require of researchers to protect the
public by insisting they present evidence of respecting patients;doing good and giving
everyone eligible an opportunity of taking part. This is done by asking questions about broad
areas of the proposed research.
The first question- Who is doing it?
At the beginning it was simply Victor, an established chest physician and university senior
lecturer, and me, who as a very junior lecturer had helped him with his studies on the Island
of Tiree and in his studies of occupation and health - e.g., we worked in many of the factories
here in Renfrew and Paisley, the Singer sewing factory where they had a swear-box for the
Executives-the minimum fine for more than a four letter word was a shilling -that's how long
ago it was!
However such a team with suitable support would have been acceptable.
We then ask how much is the study to cost, who is sponsoring it and exactly how much is
being paid to whom?
This is where Victor really exercised magic! Together with Mr Wood they would go into the
chemistry of research and health service financing and here I would like to add my thanks and
acknowledgement of George Forwell`s vital contribution for persuading the then Scottish
Office that Midspan was worthy to receive funding as a project which would benefit Scotland
as a whole. I think that was the first real recognition Midspan achieved.
We would also be reassured that the King Edward Memorial Fund for Tuberculosis and the
Chest, Heart and Stroke Association each insisted on peer-review. The Health Boards of
Greater Glasgow and Argyll and Clyde were up front supporters of the study. George Forwell
was here yesterday and John Bryden is here to day and its a pleasure to acknowledge them.
So the ethics committee would have been happy with our sponsorship and funding.
The next series of questions relate to the size of the population to be studied and raises many
statistical issues. Or put simply was Paisley /Renfrew big enough i.e. contain enough people
aged 45-64, to obtain a result? Most of our critics asked that question at the outset.
We now know that Renfrew /Paisley is the third largest study of its kind in the world and the
only one of its time to study women and to be set in a location which even today houses so
many of the seriously socio-economically disadvantaged. When we started Victor and I did
not suspect how important that socio-economic gradient was to be en route to delivering
findings that would help the public health. Many at the time dismissed Midspan or gave it only
scant acknowledgement including the first Professor of Epidemiology and Preventive
Medicine, Tom Anderson, who felt that management was the key to achieving good public
health. He may have been right - we certainly have more management now!
One little known and probably best forgotten area of research was Renfrew/Paisley`s
adventure into space. In the early 1990`s NASA was in severe funding difficulty. They thought
they might get more resources if they somehow could demonstrate the importance of space
exploration to health and so decided to hold a conference to bring space scientists together
with a few medical researchers. Victor invited me to come to Washington and I was put in a
room with a lot of seriously bright scientists whose observations led them to conclude that the
hole in the ozone layer was getting bigger. Their conversation was something I had never
heard before - it was similar to hearing a foreign language, but at some point I tentatively
asked how they knew what their measurements might mean to those of us here on earth. This
was treated as a revelation and that resulted in my being invited to meetings to discuss how
to find out. We came up with proposals to have an earth orbiting satellite include Paisley/
Renfrew and Tecumseh Michigan because Tecumseh Michigan had a similar study
population to Renfrew/ Paisley in its or their orbit- I understand that even now a satellite may
be orbiting round us but I don't know if it is switched on!
That project was a failure not just on my part but perhaps also on the part of the funding
authorities concerned who were not willing to consider long term funding of so slender an
hypothesis.
Informed Consent..... The reason I mention this at all is that the project involved giving the
detail of everything we knew about the Renfrew/Paisley population to our colleagues in the
USA (anonymously of course). At the time the only people who could make that decision were
the Midspan steering committee. The key question they would have had to consider was
whether the consent given was informed.
Victor and I will be forever grateful to Dr Mike Heasman of the Information Division of the
Common Services Agency for Scotland for getting their legal department to write the
sentence which, when signed by the Midspan participant, is sufficient to imply informed
consent. The essentials of informed consent mean that it is obtained as Onora O'Neill,
Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge put it in her Reith lectures `without coercion and
without deception.` I can say that the two people, Evelyn Lapsley and Margaret Mossman,
who obtained informed consent for the 10,000 people Victor and I studied, were meticulous in
taking the time to ensure to the best of their considerable ability that it was obtained.
We have found the wording we used on informed consent to hold to this day when
applications concerning the Renfrew /Paisley cohort came up for ethical review at the Multi
Centre Research Ethics Committee for Scotland which I chaired till recently.
I have to admit that it was a balm to my conscience, when fortune brought me into contact
with cancer as a career and I realised that I would no longer be working with Victor, that I
seized the chance of continuing to be involved with Midspan. I took over the West of Scotland
Cancer Registry -a data base thought to contain the names of everybody with cancer in the
west of Scotland.
It was a logical thought to try to link the names of everyone with cancer to the Midspan data
set because we could then know the characteristics of those screened in Paisley/Renfrew and
the other places Victor and I had worked and see what relation this had with cancer. In those
far off days the names in the cancer registry were written on white cards. Those of Midspan
came in on yellow cards. When a white met a yellow we thought we had a match - it was our
first attempt at a very sophisticated game called record linkage upon which so much of the
Midspan results are based and which would not have succeeded but for the technical
wizardry and statistical mastery of David Hole and John Clarke.
So was Midspan ethical by today's standards?
I feel sure it is because it was carried out by honest people. The research design was
adequate and we foresaw the problems of informed consent . Some of the hypotheses may
have seemed somewhat general but we conformed exactly to the fundamentals of the King
Edward Fund for Tuberculosis by seeing how far the screening mechanism of which Victor
was such a virtuoso could be extended to the diseases which had replaced tuberculosis,
namely coronary heart disease and cancer. If there is any doubt about that Graham Watt will
tell you what was found by the many researchers have contributed to Midspan and the
findings which when implemented locally and nationally could do much to improve the public
health.
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