Turner-Warwick, Margaret Elizabeth Harvey (1924- )

English physician. A specialist in thoracic medicine, she became the first woman president of the Royal College of Physicians 1989-92, and was made DBE in 1991.

While consultant physician at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital 1962-67 and at the Brompton and London Chest Hospitals (1967-72), she also served as senior lecturer at the Institute of Diseases of the Chest. In 1972 she was appointed professor of thoracic medicine at the Cardiothoracic Institute, University of London, becoming emeritus on her retirement in 1987.

Turner-Warwick was born in London. She studied medicine at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and University College Hospital, London, and first worked at University College Hospital and the Brompton Hospital in London.