Galen Tibuta
Doctor Galen Tibuta, (also known as the Prior of Hortensia), is a human physician and academic. He has authored hundreds of papers over a career spanning multiple decades, and is particularly known for his effective treatments of numerous exotic diseases as well as his work on Carrion.
He graduated as a Physician of Medicines from Gallowtree College in 1388 MH, taking up a place at Gallowtree Ward as a junior consultant. Over the years, Tibuta would prove himself an adept physician, his interest in the strange and exotic diseases serving his work. Specifically, he often found himself requested by diplomats and merchants, those who would travel abroad and had since developed symptoms, with Tibuta having an uncanny ability to identify even the most obscure of ailments.
Connections in the higher ranks of society meant it was inevitable he would quickly and was appointed as a senior consultant in 1393. This gave Tibuta the freedom to pursue personal research if he wished to and he became a fellow of the Clock Tower College Society of Medical Academics in order to pursue this. After another two years, (during which he began his pioneering research on Carrion), he took the controversial decision to accept the role of Magnus Apothecarius putting him in charge of the Hortensia Ward. Much of Tibuta’s personal research had involved treatment as well as diagnosis, but it was still a point of contention that he would be appointed with no formal qualifications in the discipline.
Tibuta is a devout Cathirian and in 1399 MH, he was awarded a priorate of the Divine Order of St Relicta, a theological order that recognises the services to faith of lay members. His priorship was over the Hortensia Ward.