Rosalind Mary Maskell (née Rewcastle; 12 June 1928 – 7 September 2016) FRCP was an English microbiologist known for her work on urinary tract infections.
She attended Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School and Millfield before studying medicine at Somerville College, Oxford, graduating with a BA in physiology in 1950.
[1] After marrying John Maskell, a general practitioner, in 1954, she left medical practice for 14 years in order to raise a family.
[2] Maskell returned to medical practice in 1968, as a clinical assistant in the renal unit and public health laboratory at St Mary's Hospital in Portsmouth.
She investigated women who experienced urinary symptoms but whose tests did not show bacteriuria and were therefore diagnosed with urethral syndrome or interstitial cystitis.