Margaret Billingham | |
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| Born | Margaret E. Macpherson September 20, 1930 |
| Died | July 14, 2009 (aged 78) |
| Education | Royal Free Hospital |
| Occupation | Pathologist |
| Known for | ‘Billingham’s Criteria’ in post heart transplant rejection |
| Spouse | John Billingham |
| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
Margaret E. Billingham (née Macpherson) (September 20, 1930 - July 14, 2009) was a pathologist at Stanford University Medical Center, who made significant achievements in the early recognition and grading of transplant rejection following cardiac transplantation, known as 'Billingham's Criteria'. She also described chronic rejection and techniques in heart endomyocardial biopsy.
Born in Tanzania, and educated in Kenya and subsequently qualified from the Royal Free Hospital in London, Billingham found herself developing rejection pathology and eventually becoming director of cardiac pathology at Stanford University Medical Center. She settled in the United States with her husband, who was also a doctor, and their two children, and died there in 2009.