1. Alan Moncrieff was most notable for developing the first premature-baby unit in 1947.
16 Facts About Alan Moncrieff
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In 1928, Alan Moncrieff was married to Honor Wedmore, and they had two sons and a daughter.
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Alan Moncrieff's wife died in 1954, and in following year, he married Mary Katherine Wedmore.
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Between 1922 and 1934, Alan Moncrieff worked at various positions including the Middlesex Hospital in London and the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, starting initially as a resident and later professing to being a medical registrar.
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Alan Moncrieff's studies at this time were related to the special problems of neonatal respiratory failure including asphyxia in newborn babies.
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In 1933, Alan Moncrieff was appointed a paediatrics doctor to Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital and remained working there until 1951 and the Hammersmith Hospital from 1935 to 1964.
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Alan Moncrieff worked in advisory capacity on the Ingleby committee for children and young people.
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Alan Moncrieff provided expert advice for the formation of the Children's Act 1948 which laid the foundations of social care of children and young people by local authorities, in those instances when the child was without parents or whose parents could not look after them.
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Alan Moncrieff has a position at the Medical Research Council, as an expert advisor, on the clinical research board.
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Alan Moncrieff acted on the expert advisory panel on maternal and child health panel.
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Alan Moncrieff was the British representative on the executive board of UNICEF.
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Alan Moncrieff worked on the Journal Publishing Subcommittee, becoming its chairman in 1950.
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Alan Moncrieff served on the Journal Committee of the BMA, becoming it chairman in 1967.
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Alan Moncrieff wrote widely on matters relating to diseases of children, and from 1934 to 1945, he was co-editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood.
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Alan Moncrieff was The Times medical correspondent for a number of years, which helped him financially, as honorary physician on the staff of a teaching hospital there was no salary, and earnings in private pediatric medicine were considered meager.
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Alan Moncrieff was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1958.