J D Milne

bmj;382/jul21_6/p1680/FAF1faDorothy Milne (“J D Milne”) was born in Glasgow, grew up in Aberdeen, and attended Aberdeen High School for Girls. She was awarded a scholarship to study medicine at Aberdeen University and qualified in 1955. She married Ronald Milne that year, and initially worked as a school medical officer in Hertfordshire. She then worked for the Family Planning Association, met the pioneering family planning adviser Helen Brook, and assisted in setting up the first Brook Advisory Centre in London in 1964. This was the first specialist family planning service open to all women regardless of marital status.In 1971 Ronald was appointed to a chair in mathematical engineering in Bristol and Dorothy worked at the sexual health clinic in the Bristol Royal Infirmary for the next 25 years. She developed interests in vaginal candidosis and chlamydia and completed her MD in David Warnock’s laboratory. She was co-author on several seminal papers,…
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