Paul Sandifer

Paul Harmer Sandifer (25 April 1908 – 29 December 1964) was a British medical doctor. He is considered one of the early founders of paediatric neurology in Great Britain.

Background Sandifer was born in 1908 to Henry Stephen Sandifer, a general practitioner in Kensington, London, and Evelyn Lee. He attended Mill Hill School. Sandifer was a talented athlete; he was captain of the rugby team and named victor ludorum. He studied law for a brief period before deciding to change to medicine.

Sandifer syndrome Sandifer syndrome was named in his honour by his former student, Marcel Kinsbourne.

Personal life In 1939 he married Sheila Anderson, an anaesthetist at Great Ormond Street Hospital. They had no children. Sandifer's interests outside medicine included travel, ballet, music, haute cuisine, gardening and fast cars.

Death Sandifer died in 1964.