Jean Smellie

Dr
Jean Smellie
DM FRCP HonFRCPCH
Born(1927-05-14)14 May 1927
Liverpool
Died14 September 2020(2020-09-14) (aged 93)
Winchester
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Alma materSt Hugh's College, Oxford
OccupationPaediatrician

Dr Jean McIldowie Smellie DM FRCP HonFRCPCH (14 May 1927 – 14 September 2020)[1] was a British paediatrician.

Smellie studied medicine at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and then at University College Hospital.[2]

From 1952 to 1961, she underwent specialised training in paediatrics at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, University College Hospital and in Oxford.[2]

She held the position of Honorary Consultant Paediatrician and Senior Lecturer, at University College Hospital from 1970 to 1993, becoming Emeritus on retirement.[2] She was also Honorary Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist at Guy's Hospital and at Great Ormond Street; and from 1984-1992 was Honorary Senior Lecturer in Community Child Health, at Southampton University.[2]

She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.[2]

Correspondence relating to one of her cases is in the special collections of University College London.[3]

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  2. ^ a b c d e Doris Zallen; Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2004). The Rhesus Factor and Disease Prevention. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-099-1. OL 11612221M. Wikidata Q29581687.
  3. ^ "Smellie, Jean M". Wellcome Library. Archived from the original on 3 October 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2017.