Maureen Young


Maureen Young, was professor of perinatal physiology at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London.

Personal life

Young graduated in medicine from Bedford College for Women in 1938, and then worked there as a demonstrator and lecturer.

Career

During the war, she was evacuated to Cambridge where she met Sir Joseph Barcroft, and began a lifelong interest in foetal physiology. Young went to St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1946, and was professor of perinatal physiology from 1976 until she retired in 1982. She assisted in the formation of both the Neonatal Society as well as the Blair Bell Research Society. She was appointed President of the Neonatal Society.