Professor Harold Richard Gamsu FRCP, FRCPCH (1931–2004) was a neonatologist. Gamsu was born in Windhoek, Namibia, on 23 January 1931. His father, a Russian Jewish émigré, Barnet Isaac Gamsu, was a businessman. He attended

Windhoek High School Windhoek High School (WHS) is a secondary school in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. Popularly known as ‘’The Blue School’’, it was founded on 5 February 1917, making it one of the oldest existing schools in the country. Currently, WHS is ...

, and then studied at the University of Witwatersrand, graduating in 1954. He continued training in paediatrics at the University of Sheffield and Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital. In 1965 he obtained a position as Wates Fellow at King's College Hospital, and was Reader in Neonatal Paediatrics and Director of the Regional Neonatal Unit there from 1979, and Professor of Neonatology from 1994. Upon his retirement in 1995, he became

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. He served as honorary secretary of the

British Association of Perinatal Medicine British Association of Perinatal Medicine known as BAPM, is a charitable organization that was founded in Bristol in 1976 that is most notable for being a pressure group to advance the standards of perinatal care within the United Kingdom by a ...

from 1980 to 1983. He died on 31 August 2004.

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* 1931 births 2004 deaths Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health British neonatologists People educated at Windhoek High School University of the Witwatersrand alumni Alumni of the University of Sheffield {{med-bio-stub