John Parsons Shillingford

John "Jack" Parsons Shillingford (April 15, 1914 – September 16, 1999), was a British physician and cardiologist, known as a pioneer of the introduction of coronary care units in the United Kingdom in the 1960s.

Early life Shillingford was born in London, England on April 15, 1914. He attended Bishop's Stortford College. He then studied at the London Hospital Medical School.

At the beginning of World War II, he won a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship to Harvard Medical School and graduated with an MD in 1943. He held medical residency appointments at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and at Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, New York.

Shillingford qualified for Membership of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians in 1945. He graduated with a MB BS from the London Hospital Medical School.in 1945 and an MD in 1948.

Career After the war, Shillingford worked at the London Hospital until 1950. In 1950, John McMichael recruited Shillingford to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in Hammersmith. Shillingford's research team studied the narrowing of the arteries that occurs with aging. He promoted engineering and biophysics in cardiovascular research.

Selected publications