Edward Hart (physician)

Edward Watson Hart MBE, FRCP (1911 – 23 May 1986) was a Scottish consultant physician who specialised in pediatrics.^[1]

Education

Edward Hart was educated at Strathallan School in Perthshire and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded first class honours in the natural sciences Tripos part 1.^[1][2] In 1933 he was awarded an entrance scholarship to the Middlesex Hospital in London; obtaining MRCS LRCP in 1936, graduating MB, BChir (Cantab) 1937; attaining MRCP in 1938.^[2]

Physician

After qualification, Hart held house physician posts at the Middlesex Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street in London where he developed his interest in pediatrics.^[2]

During World War II Hart served with the Royal Army Medical Corps and was appointed lieutenant on 25 October 1939.^[3] He joined the British Army Blood Transfusion Service commanded by Lionel Whitby and served in France, Northern Ireland and India.^[1][2] Hart attained the rank of lieutenant colonel and had overall responsibility for the service in India.^[1][2] On the 1 January 1945 he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his service.^[4]

In 1947, on his return to civilian life, Hart was appointed physician to the children's department at the Middlesex Hospital, where he worked single-handed for twenty years.^[1][2] He was also appointed paediatrician to Hampstead General Hospital in London.^[1][2] In 1949 Hart was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP).^[2]

Hart served as honorary secretary to the British Paediatric Association from 1959-1968 and was made an honorary member in 1974.^[2]

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