James Spence Medal

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James Spence Medal is a medal that was first struck in 1960, six years after the death of the paediatrician James Calvert Spence and is awarded for outstanding contributions to the advancement or clarification of paediatric knowledge and is the highest honour bestowed by The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.{{cite web|title=James Spence Medal|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/what-we-do/fellowships-and-prizes/james-spence-medal/james-spence-medal|website=Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=11 December 2017|date=18 August 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212084301/https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/what-we-do/fellowships-and-prizes/james-spence-medal/james-spence-medal|archivedate=12 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}

Recipients

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1960{{sortname|Alan|Moncrieff|Alan Moncrieff}}"for developing the first premature-baby unit in 1947"{{cite web|title=Professor Sir Alan Moncrieff|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-sir-alan-moncrieff|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=16 December 2017|date=2 March 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430204519/https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-sir-alan-moncrieff|archivedate=30 April 2018|df=dmy-all}}{{cite journal|title=Alan Aird (Sir) Moncrieff|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=VI|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3150|accessdate=16 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017055752/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3150|archivedate=17 October 2015|df=dmy-all}}
1961{{sortname|Robert|McCance|Robert McCance}}"for publishing The Chemical Composition of Foods in 1940 which later became the most authoritative publication of its kind, and later research into rationing in wartime Britain and the adequacy of the diets, which included for the first time the addition of chalk into bread for calcium intake."{{cite web|title=Professor Robert Alexander McCance|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-robert-alexander-mccance|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=2 March 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430204519/https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-robert-alexander-mccance|archivedate=30 April 2018|df=dmy-all}}{{cite journal|title=Robert Alexander McCance|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=IX|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3008|page=327|accessdate=21 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051519/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3008|archivedate=22 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
No award
1963{{sortname|Frank Macfarlane|Burnet|Frank Macfarlane Burnet}}"for research into the field of Immunology and Virology"{{cite web|title=Sir Frank MacFarlance Burnet|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/sir-frank-macfarlance-burnet|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=16 December 2017|date=2 March 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430204519/https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/sir-frank-macfarlance-burnet|archivedate=30 April 2018|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|title=Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet – Biographical|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1960/burnet-bio.html|website=The Nobel Foundation|publisher=Les Prix Nobel|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=1960|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005202005/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1960/burnet-bio.html|archivedate=5 October 2017|df=dmy-all}}
1964{{sortname|Lionel Sharples|Penrose|Lionel Penrose}}"for major contributions in human genetics and extensive research into Down syndrome and Intellectual disability."{{cite journal|title=Lionel Sharples Penrose Moncrieff|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=VI|page=375|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3517|accessdate=17 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228000101/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3517|archivedate=28 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}{{cite journal|last1=Laxova|first1=Renata|title=Lionel Sharples Penrose, 1898–1972: A Personal Memoir in Celebration of the Centenary of His Birth|journal=Genetics|date=1 December 1998|volume=150|issue=4|pages=1333–1340|doi=10.1093/genetics/150.4.1333|df=dmy-all|pmid=9832513|pmc=1460427}}
|1965{{sortname|Cicely|Williams|Cicely Williams}}"for her discovery of Kwashiorkor, a nutritional disease, in Accra and for recognising malnutrition was more likely to be caused by lack of nutritional knowledge rather than poverty"{{cite journal|title=Cicely Delphine Williams|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=6 June 1967|volume=VI|page=584|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4776|accessdate=24 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226020718/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4776|archivedate=26 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|title=Dr Cicely Williamst|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-cicely-williams|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=16 December 2017|date= 28 February 2017}}
1967{{sortname|Robert Royston Amos|Coombs|Robin Coombs}}"for developing the Coombs test. This was first described in 1945, the test identifies incomplete antibodies in auto-immune haemolytic anaemia and is part of the standard cross-matching procedure to prevent transfusion reactions due to incompatible blood"{{cite journal|title=Robert Royston Amos Coombs|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=6 June 1967|volume=XII|page=584|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5561|accessdate=24 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228054204/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5561|archivedate=28 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}{{cite journal|last1=Pincock|first1=Stephen|title=Robert Royston Amos (Robin) Coombs|journal=The Lancet|date=15 April 2006|volume=367|issue=9518|page=1234|doi= 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68528-0|url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(06)68528-0/fulltext|accessdate=25 December 2017|publisher=Elsevier Ltd|s2cid=53296550 |doi-access=free}}
1968{{sortname|Mary|Sheridan|Mary Sheridan}}"for research into children's speech and language delays as well as hearing impairment, and developed the STYCAR tests"{{cite web|title=Dr Mary Sheridan|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-mary-sheridan|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=16 December 2017|date= 28 February 2017}}{{cite web|last1=Hamilton|first1=Dr Gervase R|title=Honouring Dr Mary D Sheridan MD|url=http://www.rsm-wallofhonour.com/dr-mary-d-sheridan-md.aspx|website=Royal Society of Medicine|accessdate=25 December 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010160309/http://www.rsm-wallofhonour.com/dr-mary-d-sheridan-md.aspx|archivedate=10 October 2017|df=dmy-all}}
1968{{sortname|Donald W.| Winnicott|Donald Winnicott}}"for developing the ideas of primary maternal preoccupation, the transitional object and the therapeutic interview"{{cite journal|title=Donald Woods Winnicott|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=VI|page=471|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4848|accessdate=16 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226020736/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4848|archivedate=26 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|title=Dr Donald W. Winnicott|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-donald-w-winnicott|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=16 December 2017|date=28 February 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430204519/https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-donald-w-winnicott|archivedate=30 April 2018|df=dmy-all}}
1969{{sortname|Geoffrey S.|Dawes|Geoffrey S. Dawes}}"for research into the distribution and control of foetal circulation predominately in unborn lambs and for later research that led him to being the foremost international authority on neo-natal physiology"{{cite journal|title=Geoffrey Sharman Dawes|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=20 May 1996|volume=X|page=99|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1197|accessdate=16 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226020803/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1197|archivedate=26 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}{{cite news|last1=Redman|first1=C.W.G.|title=OBITUARY : Professor Geoffrey Dawes|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/obituary-professor-geoffrey-dawes-5615819.html|agency=The Independent|date=15 May 1996|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226020644/http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/obituary-professor-geoffrey-dawes-5615819.html|archivedate=26 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
1970{{sortname|Douglas Vernon|Hubble|Douglas Hubble}}"for research into paediatric endocrinology and publishing a number of excellent papers on the subject, which gave him a national reputation"{{cite journal|title=Douglas Vernon (Sir) Hubble|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=16 November 1982|volume=VII|page=280|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2297|accessdate=25 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226020801/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2297|archivedate=26 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}{{cite journal|title=Obituary|journal=British Medical Journal|date=21 November 1981|volume=283|issue=6303|pages=1408–1409|publisher=US National Library of Medicine|pmc=1507740|df=dmy-all|doi=10.1136/bmj.283.6303.1408}}
1971{{sortname|Wilfrid|Payne|Wilfrid Payne}}"for developing flame photometry and chromatography, enzymology, fat balances and chylomicron counting, and for conducting research on gastroenteritis, calcium and phosphorus metabolism, and on coeliac and fibrocystic diseases"{{cite journal|title=Wilfrid Walter Payne|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=20 May 1996|volume=VII|page=453|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3490|accessdate=16 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228000245/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3490|archivedate=28 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|title=Dr Wilfrid Walter Payne|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-wilfrid-walter-payne|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=27 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}
1972{{sortname|Ronald Charles|MacKeith|Ronald MacKeith}}"for establishing the first cerebral palsy advice clinic, which was to become in 1964 the larger and more comprehensive Newcomen Centre for handicapped children, and for gaining recognition of paediatric neurology, and for founding the British Paediatric Neurology Association and founding the Journal of Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology"{{cite journal|title=Ronald Charles MacKeith|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=20 May 1996|volume=VII|page=358|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/6827|accessdate=16 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227235943/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/6827|archivedate=27 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|title=Dr Ronald Charles MacKeith|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-ronald-charles-mackeith|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=27 December 2017|date=2 March 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430204519/https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-ronald-charles-mackeith|archivedate=30 April 2018|df=dmy-all}}
1973{{sortname|Cyril Astley|Clarke|Cyril Clarke}}"for his pioneering research on prevention of Rh disease of the newborn"{{cite web|title=Professor Sir Cyril Astley Clarke|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-sir-cyril-astley-clarke|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=28 February 2017 }}{{cite journal|title=Sir Cyril Astley Clarke|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=XI|page=112|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5096|accessdate=17 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222220056/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5096|archivedate=22 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
1974{{sortname|Edward John|Bowlby|John Bowlby}}"for research into attachment and formulation of Attachment theory{{cite journal|title=Edward John Mostyn Bowlby|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=IX|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/492|page=49|accessdate=16 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051845/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/492|archivedate=22 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|title=Dr Edward John Bowlby|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-edward-john-bowlby|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=28 February 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430204519/https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-edward-john-bowlby|archivedate=30 April 2018|df=dmy-all}}
No award
1976{{sortname|Douglas|Gairdner|Douglas Gairdner}}"for a number of research studies in neonatology at a time when that subject was being developed as perhaps the most rewarding application of basic physiology to patient care, and later his most important contributions an editor; first of Recent Advances in Paediatrics and then of Archives of Disease in Childhood, turning the latter into an international journal of repute with its exemplary standards of content and presentation"{{cite web|title=Dr Douglas Gairdner|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-douglas-gairdner|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=27 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}{{cite journal|title=Douglas Montagu Temple Gairdner|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=IX|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1685|page=186|accessdate=16 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228054056/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1685|archivedate=28 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
1977{{sortname|Ronald Stanley|Illingworth|Ronald Illingworth}}"largely responsible for introducing paediatricians to the UK in the early to mid 1940s."{{cite web|title=Professor Ronald Stanley Illingworth|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-ronald-stanley-illingworth|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=16 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}{{cite journal|title=Ronald Stanley Illingworth|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=IX|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2359|page=259|accessdate=16 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222052804/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2359|archivedate=22 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
1978{{sortname|Seymour Donald Mayneord|Court|Donald Court}}"for not only for his achievements in the fields of respiratory disease and the epidemiology of disease in childhood, but for being a compassionate leader who influenced others to debate major issues facing the British Paediatric Association (abbr. BPA) and the services they provide."{{cite web|title=Professor Seymour Donald Mayneord Court|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-seymour-donald-mayneord-court|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=28 December 2017|date=28 February 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430204519/https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-seymour-donald-mayneord-court|archivedate=30 April 2018|df=dmy-all}}{{cite journal|title=Seymour Donald Mayneord Court|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=X|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1030|page=77|accessdate=28 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228172440/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1030|archivedate=28 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
1979{{sortname|Kenneth William|Cross|Kenneth Cross(paediatrician)}}"due to his fundamental contributions to the physiology of newborns that were so relevant to paediatric practice"{{cite web|title=Professor Kenneth William Cross|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-kenneth-william-cross|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=16 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}{{cite journal|title=Kenneth William Cross|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=15 Oct 1990|volume=IX|page=107|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1085|accessdate=10 April 2018|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411174256/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1085|archivedate=11 April 2018|df=dmy-all}}
|1980{{sortname|James Mourilyan|Tanner|James Mourilyan Tanner}}"for the development of the Tanner scale and conducting research in growth in children, which grew into the Harpenden Longitudinal Growth Study{{cite web|title=Professor James Mourilyan Tanner|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-james-mourilyan-tanner|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=31 December 2017|date=28 February 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430204519/https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-james-mourilyan-tanner|archivedate=30 April 2018|df=dmy-all}}{{cite journal|title=James Mourilyan Tanner|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=XII|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/6318|accessdate=28 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101025924/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/6318|archivedate=1 January 2018|df=dmy-all}}
1981{{sortname|Elsie|Widdowson|Elsie Widdowson}}"for conducting critical research into nutrition, including the composition of foods, under-nutrition in man, and the nutritional requirements of the fetus and newly born, and for overseeing the government-mandated addition of vitamins to food and wartime rationing during World War II in Britain."{{cite web|title=Dr Elsie Widdowson|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team//dr-elsie-widdowson|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=16 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}{{cite journal|title=Elsie May Widdowson|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=25 January 2011|volume=XII|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/6221|accessdate=16 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171217014213/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/6221|archivedate=17 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
1982{{sortname|Dermod|MacCarthy|Dermod MacCarthy}}"for establishing paediatric unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and conducting research into common disturbances in childhood and growth in deprived children."{{cite web|title=Dr Dermod MacCarthy|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-dermod-maccarthy|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=28 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}{{cite journal|title=Dermod De La Chevallerie MacCarthy|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=25 January 2011|volume=VIII|page=300|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2843|accessdate=28 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228172304/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2843|archivedate=28 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
1983{{sortname|John Oldroyd|Forfar|John Forfar}}"for establishing modern neonatal care in Edinburgh, for prolific contributions to paediatric literature and for teaching a large number of paediatricians"{{cite journal|title=John Oldroyd Forfar|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=XII|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/6692|accessdate=16 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171217014216/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/6692|archivedate=17 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|title=Professor John Oldroyd Forfar|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-john-oldroyd-forfar|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=16 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}
1984{{sortname|James W. Bruce|Douglas|James W. B. Douglas}}"for founding the National Survey of Health and Development{{cite web|title=Dr James W. Bruce Douglas|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-james-w-bruce-douglas|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=31 December 2017|date= 2 March 2017}}
1985{{sortname|Neil Simson|Gordon|Neil Gordon (paediatrician)}}"for research into paediatric neurology, eponymic diseases including chronic handicaps, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, disorders of languages and learning difficulties. He was one of the first to initiate comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment centres for children"{{cite web|title=Dr Neil Simson Gordon|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-neil-simson-gordon|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=31 December 2017|date= 28 February 2017}}{{cite journal|title=Neil Simson Gordon|journal=Munks Roll - Lives of the Fellows|date=1985|volume=XII|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/6350|accessdate=3 May 2018}}
1986{{sortname|John Peter Mills|Tizard|Peter Tizard}}"for important research into neonatology and paediatric neurology"{{cite web|title=Professor Sir John Peter Mills Tizard|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-sir-john-peter-mills-tizard|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=28 December 2017|date= 28 February 2017}}{{cite journal|title=John Peter Mills (Sir) Tizard|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=IX|page=518|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4451|accessdate=28 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228172129/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4451|archivedate=28 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
1987{{sortname|John Lewis|Emery|John Emery (paediatrician)}}"for being one of the founding fathers of paediatric pathology in the country, and for conducting research into haematology, developmental anatomy, congenital deformities, particularly hydrocephalus, and unexplained infant deaths"{{cite web|title=Professor John Lewis Emery|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-john-lewis-emery|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=28 December 2017|date= 28 February 2017}}
1987{{sortname|Frederick John William|Miller|Frederick Miller (paediatrician)}}"for developing a home nursing service for premature infants"{{cite web|title=Dr Frederick John William Miller|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-frederick-john-william-miller|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=18 May 2018|date= 28 February 2017}}{{cite journal|title=Frederick John William Miller|journal=Munk's Roll - Lives of the Fellows|date=1996|volume=X |page=335 |url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3097|accessdate=18 May 2018|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians}}
1988{{sortname|Otto Herbert|Wolff|Otto Herbert Wolff}}"for being one of the first paediatricians in Britain to set up a clinic for obese children and conducting research into plasma lipids and, with Harold Salt, pioneered the techniques of lipoprotein electrophoresis. He later conducted research into the role of lipid disturbance in childhood as a precursor of coronary artery disease and his recognition in 1960 of the rare condition of abetalipoproteinaemia."{{cite web|title=Professor Otto Herbert Wolff|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-otto-herbert-wolff|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=28 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}{{cite journal|title=Otto Herbert Wolff|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=XII|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/6288|accessdate=16 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228172508/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/6288|archivedate=28 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
1989{{sortname|David Cornelius|Morley|David Morley (paediatrician)}}"for transforming the approach to the health care of children in the developing world. He showed that infant mortality could be cut by over 80%—not by the introduction of modern medicine and the building of hospitals, but by education and the use of locally available resources"{{cite web|title=Professor David Cornelius Morley|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-david-cornelius-morley|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=28 December 2017|date=28 February 2017 }}{{cite journal|last1=Watts|first1=Geoff|title=David Cornelius Morley|journal=The Lancet|date=8 August 2009 |volume=374 |issue=9688 |page=446 |doi= 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61441-0|url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61441-0/fulltext|accessdate=25 December 2017|publisher=Elsevier Ltd|s2cid=53262964 }}
1990{{sortname|Leonard B. |Strang|Leonard B. Strang}}"for contributing to the first accounts of harlequinism and of catecholamine secretion in neuroblastoma and later leading a team over two decades studying pulmonary vasculature in the perinatal period and even more, the central role that secretion of lungs containing fluid plays in lung formation and preparation for birth."{{cite web|title=Professor Leonard B. Strang|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-leonard-b-strang|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=28 December 2017|date=28 February 2017 }}{{cite journal|title=Leonard Birnie Strang|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=X|page=472|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4275|accessdate=16 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212084219/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4275|archivedate=12 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
1991{{sortname|John Allen|Davis|John Davis (paediatrician)}}"for major research contributions to newborn physiology, particularly to the understanding of apnoea in the neonatal period"{{cite web|title=Emeritus Professor John Allen Davis|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/emeritus-professor-john-allen-davis|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=28 February 2017 }}{{cite journal |title=James Spence Medallist 1991, Professor John A. Davis. |journal=Archives of Disease in Childhood |date=1991 |volume=66 |issue=8 |pages=913–914 |doi=10.1136/adc.66.8.913 |pmid=1929485 |publisher=BMJ Publishing Group Ltd |issn=0003-9888|pmc=1793451 }}
1992{{sortname|Richard Worthington|Smithells|Richard Smithells}}"for research into neural tube defects, congenital abnormality registers, genetic counselling, and rubella in pregnancy and for later suggesting direct examination of the fetus by photography using ultrasonography"{{cite web|title=Professor Richard Worthington Smithells|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-richard-worthington-smithells|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=28 February 2017 }}{{cite journal|title=Richard Worthington Smithells|journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows|date=21 August 2013|volume=XI|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5112|page=532|accessdate=21 December 2017|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|location=Royal College of Physicians|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222052049/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5112|archivedate=22 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
1993{{sortname|June|Lloyd|June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury}}"for research into studies on nutrition, especially the role of lipid metabolism in health and disease in childhood, which was original and difficult to investigate at that time and for the discovery that the rare metabolic disease, oQ-betalipoproteinaemia, could be avoided with the use of vitamin E."{{cite web|title=Professor Dame June Lloyd |url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-dame-june-lloyd|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=27 December 2017|date=28 February 2017}}{{cite journal |last1=Craft |first1=Alan |title=June Kathleen, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury Lloyd |journal=Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows |date=9 February 2014 |volume=XII |url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5814 |accessdate=5 July 2018 |publisher=Royal College of Physicians |archive-date=12 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512214326/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5814 |url-status=dead }}
1994{{sortname|Osmund Royle|Reynolds|Osmund Reynolds}}"for the introduction of new techniques intended to improve the survival of newborns, especially those with respiratory failure, and for a series of papers regarding the value of techniques such as ultrasound imaging, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and near infrared spectroscopy in determining the development and response to injury of the infant brain after birth"{{cite web|title=Emeritus Professor Edward Osmund Royle Reynolds |url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/emeritus-professor-edward-osmund-royle-reynolds|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=27 December 2017|date=1 June 2017}}{{cite news|last1=Modi|first1=Neena|title=Osmund Reynolds obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/21/osmund-reynolds-obituary|accessdate=27 December 2017|agency=The Guardian|date=21 May 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201045235/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/21/osmund-reynolds-obituary|archivedate=1 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
1995data-sort-value="White, Richard H. R."|Richard H. R. White"for pioneering a percutaneous renal biopsy technique which could be used with local anaesthetic and for later research contributions in the pathology of glomerular disease and he was appointed as one of the four renal pathology assessors for the International Study of Kidney Disease in Children{{cite web|title=Emeritus Professor Richard H. R. White |url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/emeritus-professor-richard-h-r-white|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=27 December 2017|date=28 February 2017}}
1996{{sortname|David|Hull|David Hull (paediatrician)}}"for a paper he published in the Journal of Physiology in 1963 with Michael Dawkins, was about research into brown fat, an adipose-like tissue found in hibernating animals and in the human neonate and for later contributions considered outstanding"{{cite web|title=Professor Sir David Hull|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-sir-david-hull|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=27 December 2017|date=28 February 2017}}{{cite journal|title=James Spence Medallist 1996 Professor Sir David Hull|journal=Archives of Disease in Childhood|date=1996|volume=75|issue=2|pages=93–95|doi=10.1136/adc.75.2.93|pmid=21032845|pmc=1511618|df=dmy-all}}
1997{{sortname|Barbara|Ansell|Barbara Ansell}}"for outstanding contributions to the advancement of paediatric knowledge, specifically defining chronic joint disorders and improving their management"{{cite web|title=Dr Barbara Ansell|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-barbara-ansell|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=27 December 2017|date=3 March 2017}}
1998{{sortname|Forrester|Cockburn|Forrester Cockburn}}"for conducting research in fetal/neonatal nutrition and brain biochemistry, inherited metabolic diseases and ethics in paediatric research"{{cite web|title=Professor Forrester Cockburn|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-forrester-cockburn|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=27 December 2017|date=28 February 2017}}
1999{{sortname|David|Harvey|David Harvey (paediatrician)}}"helped pioneer the training of doctors in neonatal medicine at a time when the speciality had no official recognition and notable for making the case for research in areas then considered irrelevant"{{cite web|title=Professor David Harvey|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-david-harvey|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=27 December 2017|date=28 February 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Modi |first1=Neena |title=David Harvey obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/jun/15/david-harvey-obituary |accessdate=23 July 2018 |agency=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited |date=15 June 2010}}
1999{{sortname|Roy|Meadow|Roy Meadow}}"for established a supra-regional paediatric nephrology service and for discovering Factitious disorder imposed on another previously called Munchausen syndrome by proxy"{{cite web|title=Sir Roy Meadow|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/sir-roy-meadow|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=30 April 2018|date=28 February 2018}}
2000{{sortname|Hugh|Jackson|Hugh Jackson (paediatrician)}}"for research into prevention of child injury, which subsequently lead to childproof containers being introduced, as well as working to prevent children from choking on pen lids"{{cite web|title=Dr Hugh Jacksonn|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-hugh-jackson|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=27 December 2017|date=28 February 2017 }}
2001{{sortname|Peter M. |Dunn|Peter Dunn (paediatrician)}}"For introducing in 1971, into the UK, the Gregory box, CPAP, that provides continuous positive airway pressure in treatment of RDS of the newborn and conducting research interests include congenital dislocation of the hip (Hip dysplasia) and fetal adaptation to extrauterine life"{{cite web|title=Emeritus Professor Peter M. Dunn|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/emeritus-professor-peter-m-dunn|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=17 December 2017|date=28 February 2017 }}{{cite Q|Q29581655}}
2002{{sortname|Martin|Barratt|Martin Barratt}}"first to establish a specialist service for children with kidney diseases in Britain, developing a model of interdisciplinary care that was later adopted by many other centres throughout the world. His research led to improved understanding and treatment of many common childhood kidney diseases"{{cite news|last1=Michael|first1=Levin|title=Martin Barratt obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/03/martin-barratt|accessdate=21 December 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|date=3 February 2014|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051324/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/03/martin-barratt|archivedate=22 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|title=Professor Martin Barratt|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-martin-barratt|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=28 February 2017 }}
2003{{sortname|Catherine|Peckham|Catherine Peckham}}"for research into infectious disease epidemiology, particularly in pregnancy and early childhood, immunisation and child health surveillance."{{cite web|title=Professor Sir David Hall|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-catherine-s-peckham|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=27 December 2017|date=28 February 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/p/9531/Catherine+Stevenson.aspx |title=Prof Catherine Peckham, CBE Authorised Biography – Debrett's People of Today, Prof Catherine Peckham, CBE Profile |publisher=Debretts.com |accessdate=27 December 2017}}
2004{{sortname|David|Hall|David Hall (paediatrician)}}"for publishing with Dr Gillian Baird, a paper on the role of primary care in identifying developmental problems that later led to the report Health for all children that lead to one of the first attempts to apply an objective evidence based approach to medical practice for children"{{cite web|title=Professor Sir David Hall|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-sir-david-hall|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=28 February 2017}}
2004{{sortname|Lewis|Spitz}}"for championing the plight of those with cerebral palsy and other congenital disorders whose foregut and its function prejudiced their ability to eat; demonstrating that appropriate surgery could improve their quality of life and for management of and treatment of conjoined twins thereby becoming the foremost international opinion in this field"{{cite web|title=Emeritus Professor Lewis Spitz|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/emeritus-professor-lewis-spitz|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=30 April 2018|date=28 February 2017}}
2005{{sortname|Cyril|Chantler|Cyril Chantler}}"where he and Norman Veale devised a method of measurement of glomerular function in children and later researched diet and growth failure in children with renal impairment"{{cite web|title=Professor Sir Cyril Chantler|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-sir-cyril-chantler|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}{{cite web|title=Prof. Sir Cyril Chantler|url=http://www.healthinparliament.org.uk/people/prof-sir-cyril-chantler|website=All Party-Parliamentary Health Group|publisher=Policy Connect|accessdate=21 December 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222052020/http://www.healthinparliament.org.uk/people/prof-sir-cyril-chantler|archivedate=22 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
2006data-sort-value="Lucas, Alan"|{{ill|Alan Lucas (paediatrician)|lt=Alan Lucas|qid=Q56446680}}"for founding the Child Nutrition Research Centre and initiating the first intervention trials to test the programming effects of early nutrition on long term health and development"{{cite web|title=Professor Alan Lucas|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-alan-lucas|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=17 December 2017|date=28 February 2017 }}{{cite web|title=Professor Alan Lucas FMedSci|url=https://acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-alan-lucas|website=The Academy of Medical Sciences|accessdate=21 December 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051124/https://acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-alan-lucas|archivedate=22 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
2006data-sort-value="Sibert, Jonathan Richard"|{{ill|Jonathan Richard Sibert|qid=Q56446574}}"for an enormous contribution to paediatric research and being international expert in child protection"{{cite web|title=Emeritus Professor Jo Sibert|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/emeritus-professor-jo-sibert|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=30 April 2018|date=28 February 2017}}
2007{{sortname|Victor|Dubowitz|Victor Dubowitz}}"Along with his wife Lilly Dubowitz for developing two clinical tests, the Dubowitz Score to estimate gestational age and the other for the systematic neurological examination of the newborn"{{cite web|title=Emeritus Professor Victor Dubowitz |url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/emeritus-professor-victor-dubowitz|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=28 February 2017}}
2008{{sortname|Alan|Craft|Alan Craft}}"as part of the Children's Cancer Study Group, lead to research into paediatric oncology, especially bone tumour clinical research and epidemiology, which further lead to an oncology research unit which has been involved in aetiological studies and in particular the role of irradiation in the development of childhood cancer"{{cite web|title=Professor Sir Alan Craft |url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-sir-alan-craft|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=28 February 2017}}{{cite web|title=Emeritus Professor Sir Craft|url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nicr/staff/profile/awcraft.html#background|website=Northern Institute for Cancer Research|publisher=Newcastle University|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=6 December 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051215/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nicr/staff/profile/awcraft.html#background|archivedate=22 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
2009data-sort-value="McIntosh, Neil"|Neil McIntosh"for being the leading writer of a pivotal document guiding standards of ethical behaviour in paediatrics, including withdrawal of newborn intensive care."{{cite web|title=Emeritus Professor Neil McIntosh |url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/emeritus-professor-neil-mcintosh|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=28 February 2017}}{{cite web|title=Professor Neil McIntosh|url=http://www.crh.ed.ac.uk/clah/professor-neil-mcintosh/|website=Child Life and Health and The University of Edinburgh|publisher=University of Edinburgh|accessdate=21 December 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051328/http://www.crh.ed.ac.uk/clah/professor-neil-mcintosh/|archivedate=22 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
2010data-sort-value="Levene, Malcolm"|{{ill|Malcolm Levene|qid=Q56446727}}"An international force in Fetal and Neonatal Neurology, his research focussing on perinatal brain injury"{{cite web|title=Emeritus Professor Malcolm Levene |url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/emeritus-professor-malcolm-levene|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=28 February 2017}}{{cite web|title=Fellow Professor Malcolm – Levene FMedSci|url=https://acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-malcolm-levene|website=The Academy of Medical Sciences|accessdate=21 December 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051606/https://acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-malcolm-levene|archivedate=22 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
2011{{sortname|Andrew|Wilkinson|dab=paediatrician}}"an international authority in neonatology and lead author of Standards of Care for NICU and NICE guidelines on retinopathy of prematurity"{{cite web|title=Professor Andrew Wilkinson|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-andrew-wilkinson|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}{{cite web |title=Professor Andrew Wilkinson |url=https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/82 |website=People |publisher=All Souls College, University of Oxford |accessdate=5 July 2018}}
2011{{sortname|Anthony|Costello|Anthony Costello}}"best known for his work on improving survival among mothers and their newborn infants in poor populations of developing countries"{{cite web|title=Professor Anthony Costello|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-anthony-costello|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=20 April 2018|date=2 March 2017}}
2012{{sortname|Sheila|Shribman|Sheila Shribman}}"for the successful integration of children's services in hospital, community and mental health settings, working closely with the local authority."{{cite web|title=Dr Sheila Shribman|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-sheila-shribman|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=16 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}
2013{{sortname|Albert|Aynsley-Green|Albert Aynsley-Green}}"for research into paediatric endocrinology and for advancing the idea of the rights of children"{{cite web|title=Professor Sir Albert Aynsley Green|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-sir-albert-aynsley-green|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=17 December 2017|date= 28 February 2017 }}{{cite news|title=A champion for children: Sir Al Aynsley-Green|url=https://www.bma.org.uk/news/2015/june/a-champion-for-children-sir-al-aynsley-green|accessdate=17 December 2017|publisher=British Medical Association|date=30 June 2016}}
2014{{sortname|Ieuan|Hughes|Ieuan Hughes}}"for long-standing research into disorders of sex development (DSD), established one of the largest and most comprehensive databases of cases of DSD including publishing the Consensus on DSD management framework which, barely eight years after its publication, is now already accepted worldwide as the framework for care of patients and families with DSD"{{cite web|title=Emeritus Professor Ieuan Hughes|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/emeritus-professor-ieuan-hughes|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=16 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}{{cite web|title=Fellow:Professor Ieuan Hughes FMedSci FLSW|url=https://acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-ieuan-hughes|website=The Academy of Medical Sciences|publisher=The Academy of Medical Sciences|accessdate=16 December 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801034525/http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-ieuan-hughes/|archivedate=1 August 2016|df=dmy-all}}
2015{{sortname|David|Dunger}}"for research into three areas, Pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes and its complications, Perinatal origins of risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes, and Experimental Medicine"{{cite web|title=Professor David Dunger|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-david-dunger|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=16 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}{{cite web|title=Professor David Dunger|url=http://paediatrics.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/people/senior-academic-staff/professor-david-dunger/|website=Department of Paediatrics|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=16 December 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171217014035/http://paediatrics.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/people/senior-academic-staff/professor-david-dunger/|archivedate=17 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}
2016{{sortname|Terence|Stephenson|Terence Stephenson}}"for guiding the RCPCH in agreeing 10 published national standards, ‘Facing the Future: Standards for Paediatric Services’. This was the first time the College committed publicly to a defined set of standards for all children receiving inpatient care or assessment across the UK"{{cite web|title=Professor Terence Stephenson|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-terence-stephenson|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=16 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}{{cite web|title=Professor Terence Stephenson starts as our new Chair|url=https://www.gmc-uk.org/publications/26063.asp|website=General Medical Council – Working with doctors Working with patients|publisher=General Medical Council|accessdate=16 December 2017|date=21 January 2015|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025101012/http://www.gmc-uk.org/publications/26063.asp|archivedate=25 October 2017|df=dmy-all}}
2017{{sortname|Anne|Greenough}}"for research into clinical and academic neonatology through work relating to the origins, markers and management of chronic lung disease following preterm birth"{{cite web|title=Professor Anne Greenough|url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-anne-greenough-vp-science-research|website=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|publisher=The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health|accessdate=16 December 2017|date=2 March 2017}}
2018{{sortname|Frances|Cowan}}"for her contribution to clinical and academic perinatal neurology"{{cite web |title=Professor Frances Cowan |url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-frances-cowan |website=Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health |accessdate=10 December 2018}}
2019{{sortname|Alan|Emond}}"for research into child and adolescent injury, epidemiology and health service evaluation as well as the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children"{{cite web |title=Professor Alan Emond |url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-alan-emond |website=Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health |accessdate=23 September 2019}}
2020{{sortname|Catherine|Law}}"for research into paediatric epidemiology and child public health, for research into the development of cardiovascular risk factors in children, physical growth, and inequalities in child health, for the use of research for public policy"{{cite web |title=Professor Catherine Law |url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-catherine-law |website=Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health |access-date=12 May 2021 |date=17 August 2020}}
2021{{sortname|Henry|Halliday|dab=paediatrician}}"for research into neonatology, for coordinating two of the largest neonatal multicentre trials for prevention and treatment of a number of neonatal respiratory illnesses, for publishing the Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care, a widely accepted text that is used all over the world and for a breathrough in the development of a new lung surfactant"{{cite web |title=Professor Henry Halliday |url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-henry-halliday |website=Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health |access-date=14 October 2021|date=3 September 2021}}{{cite web |title=Professor Emeritus Henry Halliday is first in NI to be awarded prestigious James Spence Medal |url=https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/ProfessorEmeritusHenryHallidayisfirstinNItobeawardedprestigiousJamesSpenceMedal.html |website=All news |publisher=Queens University Belfast |access-date=14 October 2021 |date=21 July 2021}}
2022{{sortname|Imtiaz|Choonara}}"for establishing paediatric clinical pharmacology as an accredited subspecialty of paediatrics in the uk and the world, for research into and assessing clinical trials for children, for establishing the journal BMJ Paediatrics Open and for writing a number of widely accepted, standard textbooks and chapters on paediatric pharmacology"{{cite web |title=Professor Imti Choonara |url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-imti-choonara |website=Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health |access-date=28 December 2022 |date=29 June 2022}}
2022{{sortname|Andrew|Pollard|dab=immunologist}}"for research into vaccines for many life-threatening infectious diseases including typhoid fever, Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae type b, streptococcus pneumoniae, pertussis, influenza, rabies, and Ebola{{cite news |title=Professor Sir Andrew Pollard Awarded the James Spence Medal in 2022 |url=https://www.paediatrics.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-sir-andrew-pollard-awarded-the-james-spence-medal-in-2022 |access-date=28 December 2022 |agency=Department of Pediatrics |publisher=University of Oxford |date=1 July 2022}}
2023

|David Edwards

|"the driving force behind the research and implementation of therapeutic hypothermia for neonates ..... (He) has also pioneered the use of MRI scanning to image the smallest and sickest babies.

|{{Cite web |title=Professor David Edwards |url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/professor-david-edwards |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=RCPCH |language=en}}

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