Helen Mackay

Helen Marion Macpherson Mackay Mackay was the first woman fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

After graduation from the London School of Medicine for Women (now part of the UCL Medical School),

Early life and education Born in Inverness, Scotland, on 23 May 1891 to Duncan Lachlan Macpherson Mackay and Marion Gordon Campbell (née Wimberley), Mackay spent some of her childhood in Burma, where she was homeschooled. Her father worked in Indian Civil Service there.

Medical and research career Mackay specialised in paediatrics. She was the first female physician at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children and was later one of first women to be appointed as consultant there. In order to combat this she helped set up clinics in Hackney, where Mackay was able to help mothers and infants in her community.