Peter Dunn (paediatrician)

Professor
Peter Dunn
FRCP, FRCOG, FRCPCH, DCH
Born 1929 (age 88–89)
Nationality United Kingdom
Website www.bristol.ac.uk/clinical-sciences/people/peter-m-dunn/index.html

Peter M. Dunn FRCP, FRCOG, FRCPCH, DCH (born 1929) is a British paediatrician. Dunn was most notable for introducing into the UK the Gregory box in 1971, that provides Continuous positive airway pressure in treatment of infant respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn and conducting research into Hip dysplasia)and fetal adaptation to extrauterine life.

Life

He obtained his degree from the University of Cambridge in 1953 and undertook training in perinatal medicine in Birmingham, San Francisco and Bristol.[1]

Career

He led Bristol University's neonatal service from 1969 to 1988, and was later Emeritus Professor of Perinatal Medicine and Senior Research Fellow there.[1][2]

He was the founder, in 1975, and Inaugural President, from 1980 to 1984, of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine, [1] and was a consultant to the World Health Organization from 1970 to 1990.[1]

Research into congenital hip dislocation, led to him being awarded the British Orthopaedic Association's Gold Medal, and for work on fetal adaptation to extrauterine life he received the De Snoo-van’t Hoogerhuigs Medal and Prize.[1] He was the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health's James Spence Medalist for 2001.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2001), Maternal Care, Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, ISBN 978-0-85484-079-3 , Wikidata Q29581655
  2. ↑ Bristol, University of. "Professor Peter Dunn - School of Clinical Sciences". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 June 2017.


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