Paul Sandifer

Paul Harmer Sandifer MRCS, LRCP, FRCP (25 April 1908 – 29 December 1964) was a British medical doctor.

After graduation, he worked at the hospital as house physician under renowned neurologist Douglas McAlpine, founder of UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Alan Moncrieff, tuberculosis specialist R. A.

Sandifer then became house physician and later senior resident medical officer at National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery until the outbreak of World War II.

In 1953, Sandifer established the Department of Neurology at Great Ormond Street Hospital, becoming one of the first official paediatric neurologists in the United Kingdom.

Sandifer's interests outside medicine included travel, ballet, music, haute cuisine, gardening and fast cars.