Margaret Turner-Warwick

Dr Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick DBE, PhD Lond, DM DSc (Hon) Oxf, FRACP, FACP, FFOM, FRCP FMedSci ^[1] (born 19 November 1924) is a retired British medical doctor and thoracic specialist. She was the first woman president of the Royal College of Physicians (1989–92) and, later, chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter Health Care NHS Trust (1992–95).

Background

Born in 1924 as Margaret Elizabeth Harvey Moore in London,^[2] she studied medicine at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford^[3] (matriculated at LMH in 1943)^[1] and, later, at University College Hospital, London. After qualifying, she practised medicine at UCH and Royal Brompton Hospital.

She decided to specialise in thoracic medicine. She was a senior lecturer at the Institute of Diseases of the Chest. In 1972 she was appointed professor of thoracic medicine at the Cardiothoracic Institute (University of London), later emeritus on her retirement in 1987. She was also Dean from 1984-87 at the Cardiothoracic Institute (now the National Heart and Lung Institute).^[2] She was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 1991-2000.

Dame Margaret was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of Lady Margaret Hall in 1989. There is an Annual Margaret Turner Warwick Respiratory Lecture, started in 2006, as a collaboration between the National Heart and Lung Institute and the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.^[4]

On Thursday 16 April 2015, Dame Margaret officially opened the Margaret Turner Warwick Education Centre for the National Heart and Lung Institute at the Royal Brompton Campus.^[5]

Positions

• Chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter Health Care NHS Trust from 1992-95
• President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1989-92
• Consultant Physician, Brompton Hospital from 1965
• Professor of Medicine 1972-87 (Dean 1984-87), then Emeritus Professor, Cardiothoracic Institute.^[1]

Family

Dame Margaret is the daughter of William Harvey Moore (d. 4 July 1961)^[6] and Maud Kirkdale Baden-Powell (27 July 1895 – 6 December 1981),^[7] who were married on 23 March 1920. She is the grand-daughter of Sir George Baden-Powell and Frances Wilson (d. 29 October 1913).^[7]

Dame Margaret and urologist Richard Turner-Warwick (born 1925) were married in 1950.^[8][7] They have two daughters.

Honors

• Honorary Fellowship, Lady Margaret Hall (1989)
• Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE; 1991)

As a President (the first female), her portrait hangs in the Royal College of Physicians.^[9]

References

External links

• RCP Presidents
• BBC profile of Dr Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick
• Journal of the American Medical Association excerpt
• Margaret Turner Warwick Education Centre officially opened, imperial.ac.uk, 30 April 2015; accessed 15 June 2016.