Ruth Wynne-Davies

Ruth Wynne-Davies or Ruth Blower (1926–2012) was a British medical doctor and scholar of orthopaedics. She researched and wrote about clubfoot and scoliosis.

Ruth Wynne-Davies
Born
Ruth Blower

1926
London
Died2012
Oxford
NationalityBritish
TitleFRSC, MB BS, PhD , BA.

Life and career

Wynne-Davies was born in London in 1926. She attended Oswestry High School for Girls. After finishing school, she was a land girl. She then worked as a secretary before starting her training in medicine at the Royal Free School of Medicine. She was encouraged and financially supported to do so by her uncle, Llewellyn Wynne-Davies. In 1959, she changed her name to Wynne-Davies, in his honour.[1]

In her early medical career, she worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital as a house officer, then as a surgical registrar at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. After a period of time as a prosector in anatomy at the Royal Free Hospital in London, she became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1960.[2]

She turned her attention to research at University of Edinburgh,[3] completing a piece of work on the genetics of clubfoot, and publishing numerous research articles on that subject.[4][5][6] She received a medal from the British Orthopaedic Association. She made significant contributions to research in the field of scoliosis, publishing articles, books,[3][7][8] and setting up specialist clinics for its treatment in Harlow Wood, Edinburgh, London and Oswestry.[1][8][9][10][11][12]

She achieved a Phd in 1973 for her thesis on the aetiology of scoliosis, before becoming a reader in orthopaedics. She took early retirement from the University of Edinburgh in 1981, moving to Oxford.[13] There, she studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education.[1]

She died in Oxford in 2012.[1][14]

In 2018, Wynne-Davies was found to be the most highly-cited British author of works on spinal deformity.[15]

Publications
  • James, John Ivor Pulsford, Zorab, P.A., & Wynne-Jones, Ruth (1967) Scoliosis. E & S Livingstone[3]
  • Wynne-Davis, Ruth (1973) Genetic and Other Factors in the Aetiology of Scoliosis. University of Edinburgh[7]
  • Wynne-Davies, Ruth, Hall, Christine M. & Apley, Alan Graham (1985) Atlas of Skeletal Dysplasias. Churchill Livingstone[16]

References
  1. Robson, Lynn. "Ruth Wynne-Davies". St Hilda's Oxford.
  2. "Wynne-Davies, Ruth (1926 - 2012)". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  3. James, John Ivor Pulsford; Zorab, P. A.; Wynne-Davies, Ruth (1967). Scoliosis. E. & S. Livingstone.
  4. Wynne-Davies, Ruth (1964). "FAMILY STUDIES AND THE CAUSE OF CONGENITAL CLUB FOOT * Talipes Equinovarus, Talipes Calcaneo-valgus and Metatarsus Varus" (PDF). The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 46: 445–63. doi:10.1302/0301-620X.46B3.445. PMID 14216453. S2CID 39056187.
  5. Wynne-Davies, Ruth (May 1972). "Genetic and Environmental Factors in the Etiology of Talipes Equinovarus". Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 84: 9–13. doi:10.1097/00003086-197205000-00003. PMID 5032855.
  6. Wynne-Davies, Ruth (1 August 1964). "Talipes equinovarus". The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume. 46-B (3): 464–476. doi:10.1302/0301-620X.46B3.464. ISSN 0301-620X.
  7. Wynne-Davies, Ruth (1973). Genetic and Other Factors in the Aetiology of Scoliosis. University of Edinburgh.
  8. Riseborough, Edward J.; Wynne-Davies, Ruth (July 1973). "A Genetic Survey of Idiopathic Scoliosis in Boston, Massachusetts". JBJS. 55 (5): 974–982. doi:10.2106/00004623-197355050-00006. ISSN 0021-9355. PMID 4760104.
  9. Wynne-Davies, Ruth (1 February 1968). "Familial (idiopathic) scoliosis". The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume. 50-B (1): 24–30. doi:10.1302/0301-620X.50B1.24. ISSN 0301-620X.
  10. Vanderpool, D. W.; James, J. I. P.; Wynne-Davies, Ruth (April 1969). "Scoliosis in the Elderly". JBJS. 51 (3): 446–455. doi:10.2106/00004623-196951030-00002. ISSN 0021-9355. PMID 5778283.
  11. Wynne-Davies, Ruth (1975). "Infantile idiopathic scoliosis: causative factors, particularly in the first six months of life" (PDF). The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 57 (2): 138–41. doi:10.1302/0301-620X.57B2.138. PMID 1141279. S2CID 5854292. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2020.
  12. Fairbank, Sir Harold Arthur Thomas (1975). Fairbank's Atlas of General Affections of the Skeleton. Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 978-0-443-01399-7.
  13. "Scoliosis Research Society Newsletter". www.srs.org. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  14. "Deaths". Daily Telegraph. 23 March 2012.
  15. Bertram, W.; Nelson, I.; Harding, I.; Nelson, I. (1 October 2014). "The top 25 most influential great british spine deformity publications". Orthopaedic Proceedings. 96-B (SUPP_15): 20–20. doi:10.1302/1358-992X.96BSUPP_15.BSS2014-020. ISSN 1358-992X.
  16. Wynne-Davies, Ruth; Hall, Christine M.; Apley, Alan Graham (1985). Atlas of skeletal dysplasias. Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 9780443030475.
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