Rosemary Claire Radley-Smith was a British paediatric cardiologist who worked at Harefield Hospital, west London for many years and founded several charities.
12 Facts About Rosemary Radley-Smith
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Rosemary Radley-Smith was born in 1939 in London to Eric and Eileen Radley-Smith.
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Rosemary Radley-Smith's father, a doctor, and her mother, a nurse, both trained at the King's College Hospital where Rosemary was born, the oldest child of the family.
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Rosemary Radley-Smith was raised in Surrey and Sussex and studied at the Cheltenham Ladies' College, and then began courses in medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, London and graduated in 1963.
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Rosemary Radley-Smith undertook junior doctor training at the Royal Free, the Brompton and the Westminster Children's Hospitals and then moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1966 for additional training.
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Rosemary Radley-Smith was a founder trustee and later a director of the charity Chain of Hope in the United Kingdom.
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Rosemary Radley-Smith was dedicated to helping to promote systems and infrastructure for treating children with congenital heart disease in developing countries.
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Rosemary Radley-Smith co-led numerous medico-surgical missions to countries such as Egypt, Mozambique, Kenya and Jamaica to evaluate and treat patients and develop their services.
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Rosemary Radley-Smith was passionate about Britain's wildflowers and could identify many of them.
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Rosemary Radley-Smith died peacefully on 1 August 2020 at the age of 81.
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Rosemary Radley-Smith became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1975, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1980, a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology in 1983 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 1997.
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Rosemary Radley-Smith was both a lecturer and researcher, and she authored more than 100 published papers.