Former consultant paediatrician Birmingham (b France 1928; q Cambridge/London 1956; FRCP Ed, FRCPCH), died from a heart attack on 24 October 2004.
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Jack was appointed consultant to Birmingham Children's and Maternity hospitals in 1967. As well as having substantial responsibilities in general paediatrics, he personally developed three paediatric subspecialties in the West Midlands, co-establishing the regional genetic counselling and amniotic fluid diagnostic services, developing the regional newborn intensive care unit at Birmingham Maternity Hospital, and co-establishing a clinic for children with arthritis. He was instrumental in creating in Birmingham the first full time academic paediatric rheumatology post in the United Kingdom. Jack left the NHS in 1991 to work as a consultant clinical geneticist in Melbourne, Australia. He leaves a wife, Anne; two children; and four grandchildren.
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