Sheila Callender
Sheila Callender FRCP | |
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 Dr Callender | |
| Born | 5 April 1914 Sidcup, Kent, England |
| Died | 17 August 2004 (aged 90) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Education | Godolphin School |
| Alma mater | University of St Andrews |
| Spouse |
Ivan Gyula Árpád Monostori
(m. 1957) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Haematology |
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Sheila Theodora Elsie Callender (5 April 1914 – 17 August 2004) was a British physician and
Oxford University
, and has been credited with helping to establish haematology as a distinct medical discipline.
Early life and education
Callender was born on 5 April 1914 in
anaemia during pregnancy.[1]
Career
Callender began her career as a junior doctor at
DSc by Oxford University in 1970.[1] She has been recognised as one of a group of physicians in the United Kingdom and North America who helped to establish haematology as a distinct discipline of medicine.[1][2][3][4]
Callender's contributions to haematology included research on iron absorption and the effects and management of
leukaemia.[1] She and her colleagues at Oxford designed one of the first whole-body counters to measure radioactivity within the body.[3]
Personal life
Callender married Ivan Gyula Árpád Monostori, a Hungarian refugee studying medicine at Oxford, in 1957; they lived together in Oxford and Scotland with "a collection of rather terrifying
mastiffs". Callender died from leukaemia on 17 August 2004 at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.[1]
References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/93866. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c "Sheila Theodora Elsie Callender". Munk's Roll Volume XII. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ a b "Obituary: Dr Sheila Callender". The Times. 15 September 2004. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- PMC 521629.
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