Turner-Warwick, Margaret (1924–)
Turner-Warwick, Margaret (1924–)
Immunologist and thoracic doctor. Born Margaret Moore, Nov 19, 1924, in London, England; Oxford University, BA, 1946; University College Hospital Medical School in London, MD, 1956, PhD, 1961; m. Richard Trevor Turner-Warwick (surgeon), 1950.
The 1st woman president of Royal College of Physicians (1989–92), completed junior doctor posts at University College and Brompton Hospitals (1950–57); worked as a general medicine consultant at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital (1960–67); employed as senior lecturer at Institute of Diseases of the Chest at Brompton Hospital (1963–72); served as a medical professor at the Cardiothoracic Institute, then director of department of thoracic medicine (1972–87) and dean (1984–87); was chair of Royal Devon and Exeter Health Trust (1992–95); with Deborah Doniach and Jack Pepys, wrote Immunology of the Lung (1978). Made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1991).