Dame Margaret Elizabeth Turner-Warwick (née Harvey Moore; 19 November 1924 – 21 August 2017)[1] was a British medical doctor and thoracic specialist.
She was the daughter of William Harvey Moore, Q.C.,[2] and his wife, Maud Kirkdale Baden-Powell,[3] who were married on 23 March 1920.
[8] In her last term before her final university exams, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and spent many months recovering in a sanatorium in Switzerland.
Turner-Warwick decided to specialise in thoracic medicine, a field undergoing significant change at the time.
There is an Annual Margaret Turner-Warwick Respiratory Lecture, started in 2006, as a collaboration between the National Heart and Lung Institute and the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.
[12] In 2021, the Margaret Turner Warwick Centre for Fibrosing Lung Disease was established at Imperial College London, becoming the UK's only centre for fibrosing lung diseases with the goal of, "increasing fundamental knowledge of fibrosis biology to develop, evaluate and implement novel, safe, and effective treatments that will ultimately lead to a cure for pulmonary fibrosis.