1. Dame Albertine Louisa Winner was a British physician and medical administrator.
21 Facts About Albertine Winner
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In 1967, Albertine Winner was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Albertine Winner was elected as president of the Medical Women's Federation in 1971.
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Albertine Winner's father was a Dutch-Jewish hide merchant from Venlo, Limburg, and her mother was British.
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Albertine Winner attended Francis Holland School, a private girls' school at Clarence Gate in London.
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Albertine Winner gained a Bachelor of Science Honours degree in physiology from University College London.
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Albertine Winner then studied medicine at the University College Hospital Medical School, graduating in 1933 with the University of London Gold Medal.
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Albertine Winner was the first female student to win the medal.
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Albertine Winner followed this with an MD in 1934, and the next year she became a Member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom.
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Albertine Winner developed an interest in neurology through the guidance of Sir Francis Walshe.
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Albertine Winner was the Assistant Medical Director-General and the chief woman doctor of the Auxiliary Territorial Service.
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Albertine Winner was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1946 New Year Honours for her wartime service.
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Albertine Winner later served as the honorary consultant to the ATS from 1946 to 1970.
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Albertine Winner was appointed as the Linacre Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a position she held from 1967 to 1978.
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Albertine Winner was initially apprehensive but soon saw its importance and helped establish St Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham, London, and she supervised its construction served as its deputy medical director when it opened in 1967.
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Albertine Winner provided guidance based upon her interest in patients' welfare and clinical experience.
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Albertine Winner utilised her interest and experience treating neurological disorders to develop palliative treatment of motor neuron disease.
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Albertine Winner later became its chairman in 1973, and president in 1985.
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Albertine Winner was on the council of the charity Disabled Living Foundation, vice-president of the Medical Defence Union, served as the president of the Medical Women's Federation between 1971 and 1972 and became a fellow of the Faculty of Community Medicine in 1974.
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Albertine Winner considered herself a "sympathetic agnostic" when she joined the Christian foundation of St Christopher's.
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Albertine Winner died on 13 May 1988 at the Lancaster Lodge nursing home in Wimbledon, London at the age of 81.