Died 17 July 1965 | ||
Born 23 May 1891 Inverness Similar John Scott of Amwell, Rumi, Aeschylus, Walt Whitman, Jerome Kitzke | ||
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Helen Mackay (23 May 1891 - 17 July 1965) was a British pediatrician known for her studies of childhood nutrition and preventative medicine.
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Early life and education
Born in Inverness, Scotland, Mackay attended Cheltenham Ladies' College in England and upon graduation, attended medical school at the Royal Free Hospital's women's medical college. While there, she worked as an assistant pathologist and house physician, and edited London School of Medicine for Women Magazine, a magazine for the women physicians there. She earned her Bachelor's of Science and master's degrees in 1914 and her MD in 1917.
Career and research
In 1919, Mackay moved to Vienna when she received a Beit Research Fellowship to study rickets and other nutritional diseases at the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine. She remained there until 1922, but continued her research in the United Kingdom. There, she was awarded the Dawson Memorial Prize in Pediatrics and won the British Medical Association Ernest Hart Memorial Research Scholar fellowship for her preventative medicine research.
Mackay became the first woman Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1934, elected because of her research on nutritional anemia. Her research in this period focused on breastfeeding and formula feeding, and she continued to investigate dietary deficiency diseases. Later in her career, she continued to write about nutrition in children and served in several leadership roles in the medical community, including the Royal Society of Medicine and Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children.