Ann McPherson CBE FRCGP FRCP SCH (née Egelnick; 22 June 1945 – 28 May 2011) was a British general practitioner, author, health campaigner and communicator who co-founded The DIPEx Charity and founded Healthcare Professionals for Assisted Dying.

[2] McPherson was a good student at Copthall County Grammar School in Mill Hill but found it difficult to get a place to study medicine owing to her political background and gender.

[2] However, she was offered a place at St George's Hospital Medical School where she excelled in her studies and busied herself with social, political and academic activities.

[8] At the time McPherson died, she was fundraising towards establishing The Health Experiences Research Institute in Oxford with the aim of becoming "the world's first interdisciplinary academic research centre dedicated to understanding the attitudes, values and experiences of people coping with illness or making decisions about their health, and to use this to make a difference"[9] at Green Templeton College.

McPherson was a champion of young people's health and held the position of Chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners adolescent task group,[6] served on the Independent Advisory Committee on Teenage Pregnancy and was a founding Trustee of the Association of Young People’s Health.

[1] The book inspired McPherson and McFarlane to set up a website, Teenagehealthfreak, where children and teenagers can find out about health issues and contact 'Dr.

In 2009, McPherson wrote an article for the British Medical Journal in support of a change in the law to allow terminally ill patients the option of assisted suicide[5] or 'assisted dying' which was the term that Ann preferred.

[18] The award was accepted on McPherson's behalf by her husband Klim and Hugh Grant, as Patron on The DIPEx Charity.