Professor Lesley Ann Page
CBE, MSc, BA, RM, RMT (born 1944) is a British
midwife and academic, and was President of the
Royal College of Midwives
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is a British midwives organisation founded in 1881 by Louisa Hubbard and Zepherina Veitch. It has existed under its present name since 1947, and is the United Kingdom's only trade union or professional organis ...
.
Page qualified in midwifery at the
Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion, Edinburgh, in 1966.
From 1994 to 2000 she was the Queen Charlotte's Professor of Midwifery Practice, joint at
Thames Valley University and
Queen Charlotte's and
Hammersmith Hospital
Hammersmith Hospital, formerly the Military Orthopaedic Hospital, and later the Special Surgical Hospital, is a major teaching hospital in White City, West London. It is part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in the London Borough of H ...
s.
From 1994 to 1998 held the post of visiting professor at the
Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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In some countries, institutes can ...
, the
Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London.
She has also been a visiting professor at the
University of Sydney and
University of Technology Sydney,
and a clinical professor at the
University of British Columbia.
She was elected President of the Royal College of Midwives in 2012.
She was made a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the
2014 Birthday Honours
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, "For services to Midwifery".
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Place of birth missing (living people)
1944 births
Living people
British midwives
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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