Sheila Glennis Haworth (31 May 1939 – 23 October 2020)[1] was a British paediatric cardiologist and academic at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.
Haworth was raised in Keighley, West Yorkshire, and graduated from medical school in London in 1960.
[2] She became an honorary consultant at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health in 1977[3] and was appointed the British Heart Foundation Professor of Paediatric Cardiology at the Institute of Child Health in 1988, a position that she held for 17 years.
[3] As part of the service, she travelled across the UK to set up and visit numerous specialised pulmonary hypertension clinics.
[2] She co-founded the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute in 2006 and served as the organisation's president in 2014–2016.