Pamela Davies

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Pamela Davies
Born1924 (1924)
Died2009 (aged 8485)
Nationality United Kingdom

Pamela Davies (born 1924 - died 2009) was a British consultant paediatrician, who specialised in neonatal follow up and infection. [1]

After a period as a junior hospital doctor and then Lecturer in the United Oxford Hospitals, and was appointed Consultant Paediatrician at the Hammersmith Hospital from 1966 to 1982. [2]

In 1964, she and Dr. Victoria Smallpeice collaborated on the introduction of very early enteral feeding with human milk in preterm infants. [3]

She was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (HonFRCPCH)

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References

  1. "Pamela Anne Davies". Munks Roll - Lives of the fellows. XII. Royal College of Physicians. 30 June 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  2. Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2001). Origins of Neonatal Intensive Care. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN   978-0-85484-076-2. OL   11612212M. Wikidata   Q29581646.
  3. Philip, Alistair G. S. (1 February 2004). "Historical Perspectives". NeoReviews. pp. e29–e32. doi:10.1542/neo.5-2-e29 . Retrieved 12 June 2017.