Mary Sheridan

Mary Dorothy Sheridan, OBE, FFCM (1899 – 14 February 1978) was an English paediatrician and public health officer who pioneered the study of child development.

Biography Mary Sheridan was born in Liverpool in 1899. Her father was an Irish general practitioner and her mother was a district nurse. She earned a scholarship to attend the University of Liverpool School of Medicine, graduating in 1922.

Sheridan began her medical career at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary and worked briefly in her father's practice before choosing to train as a paediatrician.

Sheridan began working as a consultant paediatrician at Guy's Hospital in 1962 and resigned from the Ministry of Health in 1964. She continued to perform research and lecture at Guy's Hospital, the Institute of Child Health, She also received an OBE. Alongside Dorothy Egan, Sheridan has been credited with establishing developmental paediatrics as a specialty in the United Kingdom.

Sheridan died on 14 February 1978 from a myocardial infarction.