Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick | |
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Born | Margaret Elizabeth Harvey Moore 19 November 1924 London, England |
Died | 21 August 2017 (aged 92) United Kingdom |
Alma mater | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, University College Hospital, London |
Spouse(s) | Richard Turner-Warwick, m. 1950 |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Thoracic medicine |
Institutions | UCH, Royal Brompton Hospital, Institute of Diseases of the Chest, Cardiothoracic Institute |
Dame Margaret Elizabeth Turner-Warwick (née Harvey Moore; 19 November 1924 – 21 August 2017)[1] was a British medical doctor and thoracic specialist. She was the first woman president of the Royal College of Physicians (1989–1992) and, later, chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter Health Care NHS Trust (1992–1995).