Emeritus Professor Peter M Dunn

Emeritus Professor Peter M Dunn,  2002-2004

Born in Birmingham, Peter was educated at Marlborough College and Cambridge University (St. John’s College).  After graduating in medicine in 1954 he served with the Goorkhar Rifles before returning to posts in Birmingham and settling in Bristol ultimately as the Director of the Academic Neonatal Service, University of Bristol. He was appointed to a Personal Chair in Perinatal Medicine and Child Health, University of Bristol, 1987 and attained extensive British and International awards for his work and publications.  These numbered more than 400 publications mainly on perinatal medicine including 120 on the history of medicine;  contributed to 123 medical reports including preparation of the BPA/RCOG ‘Recommendations for the Improvement of Infant Care during the Perinatal Period in the UK’ (1978).

He was the instigator and activist in establishing this Society.

Dr Andrew Williams,  2005-2007

Dr Andrew Williams is a consultant community paediatrician, medical historian, curator of the archive at the Northampton General Hospital, and playwright.  As a full time NHS consultant, he specialises in paediatric neurodisability and community child health as well as undertaking some palliative care.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is a past President of the British Society for the History of Paediatrics and Child Health.  His work on Thomas Willis and childhood epilepsy won the 2000 ILEA Gowers' Young Physicians Prize.  He has published on different aspects of child health between the 16th–19th centuries and has taken his PhD at Birmingham University on the history of paediatrics and child health 1550-1750.   He has given numerous presentations / lectures to medical and historical conferences, societies and other bodies.  His previous research has been in the areas of childhood stroke and cerebrovascular disease as well as using children’s drawings of Thomas the Tank Engine as a universal paediatric neurodevelopmental test – the ThOMAs test.  His present clinical research involves in partnership with tertiary centres both nationally and internationally helping to define new variants of some of the neurodegenerative conditions for patients that he is managing as their consultant paediatrician.  These conditions include OPA1, metachromatic leukodystrophy and pontocerebellar hyoplasia. He is the author of 'Quintessense'

More recently, his work has been exploring the histories of paediatric neurology, childhood cerebrovascular disease, paediatric diets, headache in childhood and lastly the changing understanding of the cardiopulmonary circulation in the mid seventeenth century.
Emeritus Professor Dan G Young
Emeritus Professor Dan G Young, 2008-2010
One of the founder members of the Society Dan has been active in the committee and as an official of the Society since its inception.  Having retired from being  the Professor of Surgical Paediatrics in Glasgow where he had  served at all levels in the medical structure of the NHS at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children from being a student locum resident in 1954 he has developed further his interest in archives of paediatrics.   With his successor and a colleague from Turkey he has published a book “A History of Surgical Paediatrics” which includes contributions from 28 countries and gives an international reflection on that aspect of paediatrics.

Having been the President of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and being an honorary member of a number of national associations he has had a broad experience of the specialty in its secondary stage of development after the Second World War.
Emeritus Professor Lawrence T Weaver, 2011-2012
Lawrence Weaver was the Samson Gemmell Professor of Child Health at the University of Glasgow and a consultant paediatrician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill until he retired in 2011. He is now an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for the History of Medicine in Glasgow. He has a long-standing interest in the history of medicine, and was a Wellcome Trust Fellow in the Centre for the History of Medicine in 2002, and later joined other members of the Centre in securing a Wellcome Enhancement Award (2004-09) on the History of 20th Century Scottish Child Health. He was a member of the Wellcome Twentieth Century History Group’s Witness Seminar Committee, History of Medicine Funding Committee, and secretary of the British Society for the History of Paediatrics and Child Health from 2008-2011. He has published many articles on the history of infant and child nutrition and, with Dr Iain Hutchison and Professor Malcolm Nicolson, has recently been working on Child Health in Scotland: A History of Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children – available here.
Emeritus Professor Denis Gill  MB,BSc,DCH,MRCPI. Hon FRCPCH 2013-2015
Denis graduated from University College Dublin in 1968. And had post graduate training in Dublin, Bristol, London, Brisbane, Philadelphia. He was Chairman National Immunization Advisory Committee 2008, 2009-2010 and is Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics Royal College of Physicians Ireland; Former Consultant Paediatrician and Paediatric Nephrologist Children’s University Hospital; Former President Confederation of European Specialists in Paediatrics; Author "Paediatric Clinical Examination" (5th ed).