Scudamore, Muriel June., 1925-2008

Dr June Scudamore, a consultant gynaecologist and Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, trained at Bedford College for Women and then at University College Hospital in London for five years, where she obtained the McGrath Scholarship in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (1949). She was also awarded the Kathleen Bush Harman Prize, presented by the British Medical Association in 1956 for research work aimed at the diminution of loss of life and health associated with child-bearing.

After posts at hospitals in England as house surgeon, general surgeon, and clinical pathologist - these hospitals included Bath, London, Birmingham, Sheffield and Manchester - she won the Rickman Godlee Travelling Scholarship of the University College Hospital in 1957, combined with the appointment as Research Fellow at the University of Chicago clinics. She became the protegee of Professor William Nixon of University College Hospital, who became her mentor and encouraged her in her career. The research was for the study of Exfoliative Cytology (the study of cells), with the associated out-patient clinic follow-up.

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