Judith Hockaday

Judith Mary Hockaday (née Fitzsimons) FRCP (19 September 1929 – 24 May 2019) was a British neurologist who contributed to the development of paediatric neurology.

She contributed extensively to understanding of childhood migraine, and was a founding member of the British Paediatric Neurology Association.

[2][3] She was educataed at St Mary's Catholic School, Bishop's Stortford and Lady Margaret House, Cambridge.

[1] She attended Girton College, Cambridge, where she studied the Natural Sciences Tripos funded by an exhibition scholarship.

She completed her doctorate on the treatment of tuberculous meningitis in 1960,[5] and joined the University of Oxford Department of Neurology as a registrar.

She joined the paediatric neurology ward service at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where her husband was completing a fellowship.