Rosalind Louise Smyth | |
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| Born | 28 September 1958 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Clare College Cambridge; Westminster Medical School; University of London |
Rosalind Louise Smyth CBE (born 28 September 1958) is a British paediatrician from Northern Ireland. She is Professor of Child Health at UCL the Director of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health from 2012 until 2022. She has been Vice Dean Research in the UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences since 2022.
She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and attended Down High School. [1] She went on to study at Clare College, Cambridge (BA 1980; MA 1984), and Westminster Medical School, University of London (MB BS 1983).
She trained in paediatrics in London, Cambridge (MD 1993) and Liverpool. Until September 2012, she was Professor of Paediatric Medicine in at the University of Liverpool and Executive Director of Liverpool Health Partners. From 2005 to 2012 she was Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Medicines for Children Research Network, which supported all clinical research with children in England. She is a Fellow and former Council member of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK). She was a clinical medicine sub-panel member of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and the 2014 Research Evaluation Framework and numerous grant awarding bodies. She was a member of the Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency's Commission on Human Medicines (2009–2013) and chaired its Paediatric Medicines Expert Advisory Group (2002–13). [2] She was appointed a CBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours list in 2015 for services to the regulation drugs for children. [3] She has a strong commitment to Open Access publishing and was a Director of the Public Library of Science 2006–2016. [4] She is a Governor and Trustee of the Health Foundation (2016), [5] Trustee of The Medical Research Foundation and The Lister Institute. She was chair of the MRC's Clinical Training and Career Development Panel from 2017 until 2022 and is now Chair of the MRC's Training and Careers Group. In November 2023, she became Vice President (Clinical) of the UK's Academy of Medical Sciences. [1]
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2006); [6] NIHR Senior Investigator (2008), Fellow (Honorary) of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine (2010), Fellow of the European Respiratory Society (2014), [7] Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the regulation of medicines for children (2015), Member of the Academia Europaea (2018) [8]