1. Ronald Charles MacKeith FRCP was a British paediatrician.
17 Facts About Ronald MacKeith
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Ronald MacKeith was principally known for establishing the first cerebral palsy advice clinic, which was to become in 1964, the larger and more comprehensive Newcomen Centre for disabled children in Guy's Hospital.
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Ronald MacKeith's work gained recognition of the field of paediatric neurology as a science in several European countries.
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Ronald MacKeith's childhood was seemingly serendipitous, having a father who was the GP Alexander Arthur MacKeith, and his mother, Alice, who was the daughter of a Pharmaceutical manufacturer.
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Ronald MacKeith started his studies at King Edward VI School, Southampton, subsequently moving to The Queen's College, Oxford in 1926, receiving a Bachelor of Arts and then a Master of Arts by 1930.
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Ronald MacKeith was then offered a position to start his clinical studies at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1932.
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Ronald MacKeith was offered a position as house officer at St Mary's.
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Ronald MacKeith spent the beginning of the war at St James, working through The Blitz, as Balham and indeed Wandsworth was being bombed extensively by Germany.
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In 1942 Ronald MacKeith decided to join up and from 1942 to 1945 was placed Royal Navy to work as a medical officer.
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Ronald MacKeith left at the end of the war with the rank of surgeon lieutenant commander.
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Ronald MacKeith later conducted trials with the drug piperazine to determine its efficacy.
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Ronald MacKeith later moved to Guy's hospital, where two of his brothers were trained.
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Ronald MacKeith established the first cerebral palsy advice clinic, which was to become in 1964, the larger and more comprehensive Newcomen Centre for disabled children in Guy's Hospital, becoming its first director, and later being joined by Mary Sheridan.
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Ronald MacKeith publicly supported a holistic inter-disciplinary approach, seeing the whole family, rather than the child and the disability.
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Ronald MacKeith founded the Cerebral Palsy Bulletin during February 1958, which later grew by 1962, into the Journal of Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology.
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Ronald MacKeith recorded a series of Monographs called the Clinics in Developmental Medicine that were recordings of his study group at Oxford called the International Study Group on Child Neurology.
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Ronald MacKeith was awarded the Albrecht von Haller Medal from the University of Gottingen, that is named after the Albrecht von Haller, the father of modern physiology.