Biography of Alexander Burns Wallace
(14 November 1906- 14 December 1975)
A B Wallace CBE, FRSE, M.Sc.,FRCSE,(1906–1974) was a Scottish Plastic Surgeon and a founding member and first president (1951) of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. He was also the first editor of the British Journal of Plastic Surgery. Among his achievements are the rule of nine in 1951 and the exposure treatment of burns.
He was instrumental in the creation of the International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI) in order to lobby governments to legislate for the prevention of burns and improve burns’ care. He organised and hosted the Second International Congress on Research in Burns in Edinburgh 1965, where the ISBI was born, and he was elected as the Secretary-General.
AB Wallace Memorial Lectures:
| 2023 Annual Meeting - Dublin Mr Ken W Dunn FRCS(plast) (Manchester): Past, Present and Future of Burn Care in the Digital Age Ken Dunn's Biography |  |
| 2022 Annual Meeting - Bristol Professor Nichola Rumsey OBE (Bristol): When the Going Gets Tough. Professor Nichola Rumsey OBE's Biography |  |
| 2021 Annual Meeting - Virtual Professor Naiem S M Moiemen (Birmingham): The Next Steps Naiem S M Moiemen's Biography |  |
| 2019 Annual Meeting - Leeds Professor Peter Dziewulski (Chelmsford): Sometimes Wrong, Never in Doubt - Reflections of a Burns Surgeon Peter Dziewurski's Biography |  |
| 2018 Annual Meeting – Swansea Dr Amber Young (Bristol): Improving Outcomes for Patients with Burns - Why is Research the Answer? Amber Young's Biography |  |
| 2017 Annual Meeting – London Dr Sarah Smailes (Chelmsford): “Wake Up, Breathe and Move” – a Physiotherapist’s Perspective of Progress in Burns Critical Care |  |
| 2016 Annual Meeting - Newcastle Professor Fiona M Wood FRACS AM (Australia): Striving for Excellence in Burn Care |  |
| 2015 Annual Meeting - Birmingham Dr Chris Roberts : The role of architecture in obtaining successful burn healing outcomes |  |
| 2014 Annual Meeting - Chelmsford Ms Pat Wade MBE |  |
| 2013 Annual Meeting – Liverpool Roy M Dudley-Southern MBE: Burn Care: The Ends of the Spectrum |  |
| 2012 Annual Meeting – Edinburgh Dr David Herndon (USA): Hypermetabolism in Burn Injury | |
| 2011 Annual Meeting – Salisbury Dr David Lord (Manchester): Gas – Anaesthetic Musings in Burn Care | |
| 2010 Annual Meeting – East Grinstead Mr Philip Gilbert (East Grinstead): We Know Where We Have Come From, But Where Are We Going? | |
| 2009 Annual Meeting – Belfast Mr Chris Walker (Chelmsford): As It Was In The Beginning | |
| 2008 Annual Meeting – Bristol Mr W. A. Dickson (Swansea): A.B. Wallace | |
| 2007 Annual Meeting – Swansea Dr. Keith Judkins (Wakefield): “To sleep, perchance to dream… Ay, there’s the rub” (Hamlet Act 3) | |
| 2006 Annual Meeting – Dublin Mr A H N Roberts (Stoke Mandeville): Burn Care in Disasters and Wars | |
| 2005 Annual Meeting – York Mrs Anne Fowler (Mount Vernon): Burns Nursing: Regression or Progression? | |
| 2004 Annual Meeting – Manchester Mr Peter Davenport (Manchester): Looking Both Ways | |
| 2003 Annual Meeting – Edinburgh Mrs Jenny Collings (Salisbury): Reflections on Rehabilitation | |
| 2002 Annual Meeting – Birmingham Mr John Gowar (Birmingham) | |
| 2001 Annual Meeting – Broomfield Prof. Roy Sanders (Mount Vernon) | |
| 2000 Annual Meeting – Newcastle upon Tyne Mr. John Clark (Roehampton): Reform the Third Way and Feng-Shui | |
| 1999 Annual Meeting – Sheffield Mr. Peter Blond (East Grinstead): Archie As I Knew Him | |
| 1998 Annual Meeting – East Grinstead Mr. James Partridge, Director of “Changing Faces”: Rebuilding life skills after burn injury: from personal experience to practical interventions | |
| 1997 Annual Meeting – Bristol Prof. W. Reid (Glasgow): Burn Care – A Surgeon’s View | |
| 1996 Annual Meeting – Swansea R. Cudmore (Sheffield): Aspects of Paediatric Burn Surgery | |
| 1995 Annual Meeting – Dundee Doreen Cowple (Glasgow): Changing in Nursing over 25 years | |
| 1994 Annual Meeting – Nottingham J. C. Lawrence (Birmingham): Aspects of Burn Research at Birmingham Accident Hospital from 1943-93 | |
| 1993 Annual Meeting – Liverpool C. C. Howie (Bangor/Edinburgh): Partners in Care | |
| 1992 Annual Meeting – Salisbury B. Bailey (Stoke Mandeville): Silver Jubilee | |
| 1991 Annual Meeting – Stoke Mandeville P. G. Shakespeare (Salisbury): Looking at Burn Wounds | |
| 1990 Annual Meeting – Wakefield J. W. L. Davies (Glasgow): Challenges for the future in Burn Research and Burn Care | |
| 1988 Annual Meeting – Belfast J. A. D. Settle (Wakefield): Burns – 40 Years On | |
| 1987 Annual Meeting – Roehampton D. Couper (Glasgow): Twenty Years Plus A Burnt Nurse | |
| 1986 Annual Meeting – Birmingham G. Arturson (Uppsala, Sweden): Computer simulation of fluid resuscitation in Thermal Injury |