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First as the British Paediatric Association and then, since 1997 as the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, we have bestowed honorary fellowship on a selected group of individuals since 1928.
Any member or fellow can make a nomination. The RCPCH Nominations Committee assesses each individual’s contribution and makes a recommendation to Council as to who should receive the award. Awards are made for outstanding contribution to UK or overseas paediatrics and child health, or for service to the College. Nominees do not have to be paediatricians or College members.
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Fellows are listed by year admitted, and then alphabetically by surname. We have included the job titles where available as listed at the time they were awarded Honorary Fellowship.
2025
Professor Tim Cheetham, Professor Tim Cheetham is a Consultant Paediatrician at the Great North Children’s Hospital
Dr Ajay Gaur, paediatrician and Associate Editor for IAP publications
Professor Deirdre Kelly, Professor of Paediatric Hepatology at the University of Birmingham and Consultant Paediatric Hepatologist at the Liver Unit of Birmingham Women’s & Children's Hospital
Dr Camilla Kingdon, former RCPCH President (2021-2024) and consultant neonatologist at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital
Professor Betty Kirkwood, Professor of Epidemiology and International Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Mithilesh Lal, Consultant Neonatologist at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Tufail Muhammad, former President of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)
Dr Raymond Nethercott, Consultant Paediatrician, South West Acute Hospital, former RCPCH Officer for Ireland (2019-2024)
Professor Martin Savage, Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology at William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr Stephanie Smith, retired Consultant Emergency Paediatrician at Nottingham Children's Hospital
Dr Naveen Thacker, Director of Deep Children Hospital & Research Centre at Gandhidham-Kutch, Gujarat, India, President of International Pediatric Association (2023-2025)
Dr Deepak Ugra, Senior Paediatrician at Lilavati Hospital & Research Centre, Bandra, Mumbai, current RCPCH International Officer for Asia
2024
Dr Abla Al Alfy, Founder & President of the Egyptian Members Association of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Professor Andrew Bush, Professor of Paediatric Respirology, Faculty of Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute
Professor Andrew Cant, retired Honorary Clinical Professor Paediatric Immunology
Dr Geoff Debelle, Designated Doctor Child Safeguarding, Birmingham and Solihull CCG
Professor Kevin Fenton, President of the United Kingdom Faculty of Public Health
Dr Peter Lachman, Lead Faculty Quality Improvement at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) in Dublin
Professor Mark Mon-Williams, Chair in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Leeds, and Professor of Psychology at the Bradford Institute of Health Research
Professor Leena Patel, Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, Emeritus Professor of Medical Education
Dr Jacqueline Small, President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Dr Alison Steele, Consultant Paediatrician, current RCPCH Treasurer
Dr Steve Tomlin, Director of Children's Medicines Center at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Dr David Tuthill, Consultant Paediatrician, former RCPCH Officer for Wales 2018-2022
Dr Mando Watson, Consultant Paediatrician, St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington (Imperial College Healthcare)
2023
Professor Viv Bennett, retired Chief Public Health Nurse for OHID
Professor Nick Bishop, Professor of Paediatric Bone Disease
Professor David Edwards, Consultant Neonatologist at the Evelina London Children's Hospital & Professor of Paediatrics & Neonatal Medicine at King's College London
Dr San San Oo, Consultant Paediatrician
Dr Carol Roberts, Associate Medical Director
Dr Arvind Shah, Consultant Paediatrician
Professor Lisine Tuyisenge, Founding President and Head of the Rwanda Paediatric Association
2022
Dr Nick Brown, Editor-In-Chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood
Professor Steven Clifford, Director, Newcastle University Centre for Cancer & Professor of Molecular Paediatric Oncology
Ms Yvonne Coghill, Director for the Workforce Race Equality Implementation Team NHS London
Dr David Evans, Consultant Neonatologist at Southmead Hospital in Bristol
Ms Kath Evans, Director of Children's Nursing, Barts Health NHS Trust
Professor Humayun Iqbal Khan, Head of the Pediatrics Department in Services Hospital Lahore
Dr Michael Linney, Retired Consultant Paediatrician
Dame Mary Marsh, Past Chair of the Board of Trustees at RCPCH
Professor Mala Rao, Senior Clinical Fellow at Imperial College London
Dr Robert Ross Russell, Chair, European Board of Paediatrics
Dr Amanda Thomas, Retired Medical Director
Professor Russel Viner, Professor of Adolescent Health at the UCL, Institute of Child Health
2021
Lord Victor Adebowale, Chair of the NHS Confederation
Professor Zulfiqar Bhutta, Chair of Global Child Health at Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University
Dr Fiona Campbell, Consultant Paediatric Diabetologist / Associate Medical Director of Children’s Services, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Helen Goodyear, Consultant Paediatrician, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
Dr Jenny Harries, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England
Professor Aye Aye Khaing, Professor of Paediatric Oncology, Yangon Children's Hospital
Professor Kyaw Linn, Professor of Paediatric Neurology, Yangon Children's Hospital
Dr Robert Scott-Jupp, Retired Consultant Paediatrician, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Dr David Vickers, Medical Director & Consultant Paediatrician, Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
2020
Professor Paul Colditz, Director of the Perinatal Research Centre and Deputy Director at University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research
Professor Sarah Creighton, Consultant Gynaecologist, Department of Women’s Health, UCLH
Dr Carol Ewing, Clinical Adviser to the Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire Strategic Clinical Network
Professor Anne Greenough, Professor of Neonatology and Clinical Respiratory Physiology, Director of Education and Training at King’s Heath Partners Academic Health Science Centre
Professor Alastair Hay, Professor of Primary Care at the University of Bristol
Dr Lisa Kauffmann, Consultant Paediatrician, Associate Medical Director, Community Children's Services
Dr Alison Tedstone, Chief Nutritionist and Deputy Director (Diet, Obesity and Physical Activity) at Public Health England
Professor Catherine Law, Deputy Director (Strategy and Partnerships) at UCL Institute of Child Health and Vice Dean for Research in the Faculty of Population Health Sciences
2019
Professor Elizabeth Elliot
Professor Aye Maung Han
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh
Associate Professor Mark Lane
Dr Andrew Long
Professor Ian Maconochie
Professor Neena Modi
Professor Stephen Scott
Dr Rosalind Smyth
Professor Chris Whitty
2018
Dr Shally Awasthi
Professor Judith Ellis
Dr Huw Jenkins
Dr Corinne Rees
Dr Charles Skeoch
Mr Eustace de Sousa
Professor Win Tin
Dr Martin Ward Platt
Dr Jonathan Wyllie
2017
Mrs Sarah Brown
Professor Deborah Christie
Professor A Rashid Gatra
Professor Sir Peter Gluckman
Dr Amanda Goldstein
Professor Mark Hanson
Professor Jean-Christophe Mercier
Dr Ramya de Silva
Professor Nick Spencer
Dr Anthony Waterston
Dr Kevin Windebank
2016
Dr Bassam Abu-Libdeh
Dr Jean Bowyer
The Right Honourable Gordon Brown
Dr Hilary Cass
Professor Kate Costeloe
Professor Frances Cowan
Professor Alison Kemp
Professor Eitan Kerem
Professor Sir Michael Marmot
Dr Ramesh Mehta
Dr Simon Newell
Sir John Savill
Professor Terence Stephenson
Dr Alistair Thomson
Dr John Wachira
Professor Sir Mark Walport
Dr John Williams
2015
Professor Dame Sue Bailey
Dr Chris Hanvey
Professor Shelley Heard
Dr John Jenkins
Dr Marian Malone
Dr Thomas McInerny
Dr Hassib Narchi
Dr Ann Prentice
Dr Angela Thompson
Dr Michael Watkinson
Professor Charlotte Wright
2014
Dr Donald Berwick
Dr Tim Chambers
Professor Imti Choonara
Dr Julia Dunn
Professor Peter Eckzembi
Dr Vic Larcher
Professor Joy Lawn
Dr Andrew Lloyd Evans
Mr Gordon Mackinlay
Mr John Short
2013
Professor Myra Bluebond-Langner
Dr Jacqueline Cornish
Mrs Stella Dutton
Dr Richard Horton
Professor Ieuan Hughes
Mr Edward Kiely
Dr Ian Laing
Ms Christine Lenehan
Professor Michael Link
Dr Mary McGraw
Professor Varinder Singh
Ms Fiona Smith
2012
Professor Kishwar Azad
Mrs Pamela Barnes
Professor Dame Sally Davies
Mr Gordon H Denney
Dr Zoe Dunhill
Dr Patricia Hamilton
Dr Sue Hobbins
Professor Dharma Manandhar
Professor Jacqueline Mok
Professor Gudrun Moore
Dr Rosalyn Proops
Dr Sheila Shribman
2011
Dr Martin Bellman
Dr Andrew Boon
Dr Colin Campbell
Mr Stephen Capps
Dr M Yaqub Kazi
Professor Brent Taylor
Dr Christopher Verity
Dr Michael Wailoo
Dr David Warburton
Professor Ian Wong
Dr Edward Wozniak
2010
Professor Yousef Abdulrazzaq
Dr Saleh Al-Khuisaby
Professor Manindra Baral
Dr Graham Clayden
Professor David Hatch
Dr Sheila McKenzie
Dr John Morgan
Dr Richard Morton
Dr Mercedes de Onis
Dr George Rylance
Dr Harshpal Sashdev
Professor Manouri Senanayake
Mr Len Tyler
Professor Andrew Wilkinson
2009
Dr T J C Boulton
Dr Helena Davies
Professor Denis Gill
Dr Frances Marianne Howard
Dr René Heitner
Dr Sat Jassal
Dr Tom Lissauer
Dr Adrian Margerison
Professor Anthony David Milner
Professor Leon Polnay
Dr John Sills
Professor Elizabeth Towner
2008
Sir Albert Aynsley-Green
Professor Gillian Baird
Ms Francine Bates
Professor Dorothy Bishop
Dr Robert Dinwiddie
Ms Sally Kuenssberg
Dr Neil McIntosh
Professor Elizabeth Molyneux
Professor John P Osborne
Dr Mary Rossiter
Professor Arunas Valiulis
Dr Lorna Wing
2007
Professor Howard Bauchner
Professor Peter Berry
Professor Sir Alan Craft
Ms Jenny Gray
Dr Mary Lindsay
Professor Ram Marwaha
Professor Colin Morley
Dr Anna Murphy
Professor Richard Olver
Dr Bonaventure Perera
Dr Barbara Phillips
Professor I Barry Pless
Mr James Wallace
2006
Professor Paul Casaer
Dr Tim Cole
Dr Spence Galbraith
Dr Ann Goldman
Dr Susan Hall
Professor Peter Hill
Professor Herbert Jurgens
Professor Jerold F Lucey
Dr Harvey Marcovitch
Mrs Carole Myer
Dr Anand Pandit
Professor Jose Ramet
Professor Donal Robertson
Dr Jill Sewell
Professor Jo Silbert
Professor Fiona Stanley
2005
Dr Janet Anderson
Dr Guy Besley
Dr Alistair W Blair
Professor H Carty
Professor David Davies
Dr Keith Dodd
Professor Sir Liam Donaldson
Professor Avroy Fanaroff
Mr Richard Firmin
Dr Danya Glaser
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
Professor Margaret Lynch
Professor Jonathan Montgomery
Dr Felicity Savage
Dr Mie Shooter
2004
Professor Ann Ashworth-Hill
Dr Ronald Barr
Professor Carol Black
Professor Robert Boyd
Professor Sir David Hall
Professor Jacob John
Professor Sir Ian Kennedy
Professor Nai Kong Leung
Professor Jillian Mann
Professor Garth McClure
Dr Tony Nunn
Professor Fred Revera
Dr Lewis Rosenbloom
Professor Havendra De Silva
Professor Lewis Spitz
2003
Professor David Barker
Mrs Jean Gaffin
Professor Roland Levinsky
Professor George Russell
Dr Jane Wynne
2002
Dr James Appleyard
Mrs Elizabeth Fradd
Dr Albert Cecil Graham
Miss Leela Kapila
Dr Christopher Nourse
Professor Euan Ross
Professor Brian Wharton
2001
Dr Krishna Goel
Professor Michael Healy
Professor Israel Kolvin
Dr Aidan Macfarlane
Dr Roger Verrier-Jones
Professor John Walker-Smith
2000
Dr Joel Alpert
Professor Frank Harris
Dr Roderick MacFaul
Professor Hamish Simpson
Professor John Stephenson
Dr Bernard Valman
Professor Jonathan Wigglesworth
1999
Professor John Cash
Professor John Dodge
Dr Edmund Key
Professor Scerre Lie
Dr Cliff Robertson
Professor Jane Schaller
1998
Dr Martin Bax
Sister Frances Dominica
Professor Andrew Minkowski
Professor Lucy Wagstaff
1997
Dr Jean Aicardi
Professor Forrester Cockburn
Professor Victor Dubowitz
Professor Peter Harper
Sir David Hull
Mr Bertie Leigh
Professor Osmund Reynolds