Professor Satish Keshav Memorial Fund
Satish Keshav was an internationally renowned specialist in ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, who died unexpectedly on 23 January 2019.
Satish was a true clinician, scientist, teacher, mentor to many, friend and colleague, who grew up in Zambia and Johannesburg, won a scholarship to read Medicine at Witwatersrand (achieving distinction) and came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol in 1987. His DPhil was on Paneth cell biology, which remained an abiding passion and he became a gastroenterologist as a consequence.
He was Staines Medical Research Fellow at Exeter College 1989-92, Nuffield Medical Research Fellow at Corpus Christi 1992-96 and then Senior Lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital, London. Satish was an outstanding intellect, a thoughtful clinician much loved by his patients and a wonderful colleague. He was appointed as a Consultant in Oxford in 2007 and was Clinical Director from 2013 until his death.
His upbringing and search for truth in science created a respect for others who might hold a different point of view, which he would endeavour to change by reasoned discussion. His understated, quiet manner disguised a fine sense of humour, but never at another’s expense: his percipience, patience and modesty made him a wise colleague who will be much missed not only in Oxford, but around the world. He made seminal contributions to basic, translational and clinical research in the gut, but was also a polymath, interested in philosophy, music, literature and the idiosyncrasies of the world in which we live.
His family, friends and colleagues wish to honour his memory and passion for clinical science by establishing a memorial fund to create the Satish Keshav Scholarship in Clinical Science.
Click the link below to help us create the opportunity for young investigators to contribute as much to science or clinical medicine as did Satish. US donors who wish to give tax-efficiently can find out more about how to do so via Americans For Oxford (AFO), or visit the AFO website.