Ruth Bowden

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Ruth Elizabeth Mary Bowden

peripheral nerve injuries and leprosy
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Biography

Bowden was born in 1915 to Frank Harold and Louise Ellen Bowden.

MBBS at the London School of Medicine for Women in 1940.[1]

Bowden held house posts at the

Rockefeller Fellowship that allowed her to travel to the polio laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, and in 1950 she was awarded a Hunterian Professorship. Throughout her research career, her most significant contributions were to striated muscle tissue disease and healing of peripheral nerve injuries in leprosy.[1][2] She visited India multiple times throughout her life to train local surgeons to repair nerve injuries caused by leprosy.[2]

Bowden received numerous honours, including an

WHO consultant to the University of Khartoum throughout the 1970s and president of the Medical Women's Federation in 1981–82.[2] She died in 2001 from injuries she sustained in a road accident.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Bowden, Ruth Elizabeth Mary (1915 - 2001)". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows. Royal College of Surgeons. 22 October 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Allen, Irene (2002). "Obituary" (PDF). Leprosy Review. 73: 90–91.
  3. PMC 1123117
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