Clare Marx Obituary

Dame Clare Lucy Marx DBE DL FRCS was a British surgeon who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from July 2014 to July 2017, becoming the first woman to do so.

Marx was born in the month of March 1954. Marx earned his medical degree in 1977 from the University College London Medical School.

Her surgical house jobs were in London, and she later completed an arthroplasty fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts (USA).

She worked as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St Mary’s and St Charles’ hospitals, where she developed a special interest in early surgical education.

She was appointed clinical director of Ipswich Hospital’s combined A&E, Trauma & Orthopaedics, and Rheumatology directorates in 1993.

She was also the former chair of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. Dame Clare was the first woman to serve as chair of the General Medical Council, from January 2019 to July 2021.

Dame Clare Marx passed away on November 2022, at the age of 68. Marx was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2021.