Leslie Keith Harding

bmj;383/oct27_9/p2484/FAF1faLeslie Keith Harding (“Keith”) became a consultant in general medicine and nuclear medicine at Dudley Road Hospital (now known as Birmingham City Hospital) in 1973. He had an active scientific mind and his interest in the newly developing specialty of nuclear medicine grew so he became one of the early users of nuclear medicine for the diagnosis and management of patients the UK. He was closely associated with the early development of the newly established British Nuclear Medicine Society (BNMS) in 1972 and became its treasurer and then president.His role changed to a full time consultant physician in nuclear medicine in 1982, the first such appointment in the region. He was instrumental in helping the department achieve its national and international fame and helped stablish provider Krypton services (for ventilation-perfusion scanning of the lung) for the UK. He represented the BNMS in the early days of the European Association of…
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