Professor Sir Peter Tizard (1916-1994), arguably the father of modern British paediatrics, talks of family history, such distinguished ancestors as explorer Thomas Henry Tizard FRS and radar protagonist Sir Henry Tizard FRS, education at Rugby in the late 1920s and early 1930s, a decision to read medicine influenced by Douglas Creed FRCP and studies at Oxford and the Middlesex Hospital. Influential early appointments in Oxford with Alan Moncrieff, and at Aylesbury and the Middlesex Hospital are then dissected, followed by outlines of wartime RAMC service. The influences of a post-war registrarship with Donald Paterson FRCP at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond St, London, and a senior post in paediatrics at St Mary's Hospital, London, are then considered, especially the impact of research interests developed with Kenneth Cross and insights into paediatrics conferred by working with Donald Winnicott FRCP. Appointments at the Institute of Child Health, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith follow, where interests in the welfare of the new-born lead to the creation of the Nuffield Neonatal Research Unit and the bringing together a distinguished team of young paediatricians destined to have wide impact on paediatrics nationally and internationally. In final sections of the interview Professor Tizard reflects on major changes in the care and treatment of infants and children since the 1950s and those who have influenced developments in Britain.
Tizard family history, early British paediatrics, the Nuffield Neonatal Research Unit, paediatric neurology, early experience of streptomycin
Health services administration, Neurology, Paediatrics, Research,
vid-210, MSVA_10
Permanent link to this resource: https://doi.org/10.24384/000446
Tizard, PeterWolstenholme, Gordon
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Original artefact: 1987 RADAR resource: 2017
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