Sheila Sherlock
| Professor Dame Sheila Sherlock | |
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Sheila Sherlock
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| Born |
31 March 1918 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 30 December 2001 (aged 83) London, England |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Medicine |
| Institutions | Royal Free Hospital |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | The liver in disease: with special reference to aspiration liver biopsy |
| Known for | Hepatology |
| Notable awards | DBE (1978) FRCP (1951) FRCP Ed FRS (2001) |
| Spouse | D. Geraint James (1951) |
| Children | 2 daughters |
Professor Dame Sheila Patricia Violet Sherlock FRCP, FRCP Ed, FRS (31 March 1918 – 30 December 2001) was a Anglo-Irish physician and teacher who is considered the major pioneer in the field of hepatology, the study of the liver.
Sheila Sherlock was born in Dublin on 31 March 1918, the only daughter of Violet Mary Catherine (née Beckett) and Samuel Philip Sherlock, an army officer then serving as a lieutenant in the 1st cavalry reserve. Her family moved from Ireland to London soon after her birth and she attended private schools in the city until her family moved in 1929 to the village of Sandgate, Kent. In Kent, she was educated at the Folkestone County School for Girls. In the early part of the twentieth century female applicants to medical schools were at a great disadvantage, and from 1935 to 1936 Sherlock attempted to enter several English medical schools but was rejected. In 1936 she was accepted for a place to study medicine at University of Edinburgh. Her ability became evident, and she graduated in 1941 finishing top of her year. She was awarded the Ettles Scholarship, being only the second woman to have done so.
She remained in Edinburgh to take up the post of Assistant Lecturer in Surgery offered to her by Professor Sir James Learmonth, and published her first paper with Learmonth in 1942. She later recounted that Learmonth had taught her how to conduct and document research. In the same year she was appointed House Physician to Professor Sir John McMichael at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital.
In this post she worked on hepatitis, which she was able to continue from 1943 to 1947 with funding from the Medical Research Council and subsequently with the award of the Beit Memorial Fellowship. She was awarded her MD with a thesis on The Liver in Disease: with special reference to aspiration liver biopsy, receiving a Gold Medal from University of Edinburgh.
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