Dr Jean McIldowie Smellie DM FRCP HonFRCPCH (14 May 1927 – 14 September 2020) was a British

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. Smellie studied medicine at

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, and then at

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. From 1952 to 1961, she underwent specialised training in

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, University College Hospital and in Oxford. She held the position of Honorary Consultant Paediatrician and Senior Lecturer, at University College Hospital from 1970 to 1993, becoming

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on retirement. She was also Honorary Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist at

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and at Great Ormond Street; and from 1984-1992 was Honorary Senior Lecturer in Community Child Health, at

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. She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Correspondence relating to one of her cases is in the special collections of

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Personal life

Smellie was married to Professor Colin Normand (1928–2011) and was known as Jean Normand in private life, but she used her

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for professional purposes.

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* * 1927 births 2020 deaths English women medical doctors British paediatricians British women paediatricians Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford Physicians of Guy's Hospital {{UK-med-bio-stub