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Born in 1924 as Margaret Elizabeth Harvey Moore in London, she studied medicine at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (matriculated at LMH in 1943) and, later, at University College Hospital, London.
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Margaret Warwick
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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 National Health Service Trust (1992-1995). After qualifying, she practised medicine at UCH and Royal Brompton Hospital. She decided to specialise in thoracic medicine.
She was a senior lecturer at the Institute of Diseases of the Chest.
In 1972 she was appointed professor of thoracic medicine at the Cardiothoracic Institute (University of London), later emeritus on her retirement in 1987. She was also Dean from 1984-1987 at the Cardiothoracic Institute (now the National Heart and Lung Institute).
Dame Margaret was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of Lady Margaret Hall in 1989. There is an Annual Margaret Turner Warwick Respiratory Lecture, started in 2006, as a collaboration between the National Heart and Lung Institute and the Royal Brompton and Harefield National Health Service Foundation Trust.
On Thursday 16 April 2015, Dame Margaret officially opened the Margaret Turner Warwick Education Centre for the National Heart and Lung Institute at the Royal Brompton Campus.
Chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter Health Care National Health Service Trust from 1992 to 1995 President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1989 to 1992. Consultant Physician, Brompton Hospital from 1965 Professor of Medicine 1972 to 1987 (Dean 1984 to 1987), then Emeritus Professor, at the Cardiothoracic Institute. Dame Margaret is the daughter of William Harvey Moore (d 4 JUL 1961) and Maud Kirkdale Baden-Powell (27 JUL 1895 - 6 DEC 1981), who were married on 23 MAR 1920.
She is the grand-daughter of Sir George Baden-Powell and Frances Wilson (d 29 OCT 1913).
Dame Margaret and urologist Richard Turner-Warwick (born 1925) were married in Q1, 1950. They have two daughters.
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She was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 1991-2000.
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