June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury
June Kathleen Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury, DBE ( born January 1, 1928 in Gilgit, Kashmir, then British India, † June 28, 2006 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire ) was a British pediatrician and researcher in the field of pediatrics. Since 1996 she worked as a Life Peeress a formal member of the House of Lords.
Life
Family and Education
June Kathleen Lloyd was born as a colonial British in British India. My father served in the province of Kashmir as a Major in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps. She lived until 1936 in Kashmir; The family returned to the UK when Lloyd was eight years old. She attended the Royal High School in Bath in the county of Somerset. She was head girl at her school. She studied medicine at the University of Bristol. She has received awards in the fields of Pathology, Forensic Medicine, Health Sciences (Public Health) and surgery and was usgezeichnet with a gold medal from the University of Bristol. In 1951 she graduated from the University of Bristol, the Bachelor of Medicine. In 1954 she became a member of the Royal College of Physicians. At the University of Durham in 1958 she put her diploma as a Clinical Psychologist ( Diploma in Psychological Medicine ) from. In 1966, at the University of Bristol to the conclusion as a medical doctor (MD).
Professional activity
Your practical training she completed in Bristol and Oxford. Although advised her to abandon the scientific and professional largely male-dominated career field of pediatrics, and to lay instead on Health Sciences and General Practice, Lloyd opted for a specialist training to a pediatrician. This they completed two years as a " Paediatric Registrar" in Plymouth and Bristol; two more years residency training in Newcastle followed.
In 1958 she went to Birmingham University; to 1965 she was there as a Research Associate (Research Fellow ) and as a lecturer ( Lecturer ) for the subject of pediatrics active. During this time, her research interests on the causes of obesity and their interest for congenital metabolic diseases arose, especially in the field of lipid metabolism. Her mentor was Otto Wolff, whose research assistant, she was; with him and his family, they shared a lifelong friendship. 1964/1965 she taught and conducted research at Washington University. In 1965 she followed Wolff at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London; at the hospital affiliated Institute of Child Health at Great Ormond Street, London, she was a lecturer in 1965 ( Senior Lecturer ), 1968 finally Associate Professor ( Reader).
In 1975, Lloyd Professor of Pediatrics ( Professor of Child Health ) and Head of the newly established Department of Pediatrics ( Department of Paediatrics ) at St George's Hospital Medical School in London. They built the new Department of Pediatrics, despite limited space - the scientific department was in portakabins, five miles from the hospital complex, housed - to an institution with high appreciation. She worked closely with geneticists and biochemists. In the next decade, Lloyd trained there the next generation of leading children herbalists.
In 1985, she returned as " Nuffield Professor of Child Health " back to the Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1992, she went into retirement and gave their active professional career as a doctor. Since 1992 she was Emeritus Professor (Emeritus Nuffield professor of child health).
More offices
She was from 1988 to 1991, the first female president of the British Paediatric Association. She was Vice - President ( Vice - President) of the Royal College of Physicians (1992-1995 ). She had a decisive influence on the transfer of the British Paediatric Association, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. The technical responsibility for the training and scientific standards of Pediatrics was now alone at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; previously the responsibility for this lay with the Royal College of Physicians. Their role has been shown symbolically in the arms of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She was portrayed as a supporter carrying the staff of Asclepius, but not with the traditional Snake but with a double helix.
She was a member of numerous committees. She was Chairman of the Medical Research Council Board on Physiological Systems and chairman of the science committee ( Scientific Panel ) of the National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases. Lloyd was further chairman at the Nuffield Foundation ( Chairman ) of the working group that dealt with this subject theme Positional cloning ( Working Party on Genetic Screening).
In 1974 she became a member of the governing body ( Council) of the Ciba Foundation (now Novartis); In 1988, she was there trustee ( Trustee ) and 1990 Chairman ( Chairman ).
Scientific interests
Their clinical and scientific priorities and research interests lay in the field of lipid metabolism and congenital diseases in children, including metabolic diseases, as well as diabetes mellitus and obesity in children. They showed that in patients who were suffering from abetalipoproteinemia, neurological damage could be prevented by the administration of vitamin E.
Lloyd was regarded as a specialist in metabolic diseases in children; Children from across the UK were introduced to her for examination. She examined Ursuchen such as hypercholesterolemia. She has published over 100 scientific articles and fundamental works on childhood obesity, irregularities in lipoproteins (serum lipoproteins), diabetes, cholesterol, coronary heart disease and obesity.
Lloyd was regarded as one of the leading pediatricians of her generation. It was considered the doyenne of British paediatrics.
She has lectured and gsb guest lectures in Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Sri Lanka and Switzerland.
Membership in the House of Lords
On August 19, 1996 Lloyd was appointed Life peer and became a member of the House of Lords; they bore the title Baroness Lloyd of Highbury, Highbury in the London Borough of Islington of. In the House of Lords as she sat cross Bencher. Your seat in the House of Lords took a until 1998. However, her health did not permit an active role in Lloyds House of Lords. They belonged to the House of Lords until her death formally.
Awards
Lloyd has received numerous awards and honors. In 1969 she became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1980 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 1991 she received an honorary doctorate as a "Doctor of Science" ( Honorary DSc ) from the University of Bristol; In 1993, an honorary doctorate from Birmingham University ( Honorary DSc ).
Private
On September 12, 1996 Lloyd suffered a massive stroke. She had on this day as part of the British Association Science Festival in Birmingham during a debate of the Ciba Foundation on Alcohol Abuse entitled Alcohol, Friend or Foe? chaired. The event was then terminated immediately and Lloyd was notärztlich supplied. The stroke had serious consequences for Lloyd; she could neither walk nor speak henceforth. Lloyd spent after the stroke more than a year in the hospital; it was then looked after over four years of nurses at home uninterrupted. Lloyd received visitors, they could understand it, but could not answer them. The last four years of her life she lived in a nursing home.
Lloyd was unmarried. Her brother, Philip Lloyd, was Commander in the Royal Navy. She died at the age of 78 years in Aylesbury in the county Buckingshamshire in the nursing home where she had last lived well.