Moya Cole

Dr Mary Patricia "Moya" Cole, MD, DMRT, DRCOG, FRCR, OBE (31 August 1918 - 16 May 2004) was a Northern Irish medical doctor, and oncological researcher, consultant and writer.

Education

Born in County Cavan, Moya Cole attended primary schools in Carrickfergus and Portrush, Coleraine High School and Methodist College Belfast. She graduated with a BSc in Physics from Queen's University, Belfast (QUB) in 1939, earning an MSc the following year.

She taught at Portadown College from 1941 and 1943. Later she returned to QUB where she graduated with a MB in 1948. During this time she was President of the Women's Students Hall, the Student Christian Movement and the Students' Representative Council.^[1]

Career

Cole had house jobs at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Maternity Hospital between 1949 and 1950 and obtained her DRCOG in 1950. She moved to Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, Manchester, where she worked until 1983. She was a consultant in radiotherapy and oncology from 1955.

Affiliations

Cole founded St Ann's Hospices, Heald Green (1971) and Little Hulton (1979). Even after retirement Dr Cole continued working, as medical director and chair of the management committee at St Ann's.

Honours

She was awarded the OBE in 1990.

Publications

Cole published significant papers on the radiotherapy of carcinoma of the cervix and was co-author of the first clinical paper on tamoxifen.^{[citation needed]} She published papers on terminal care.^{[citation needed]}

Death

Moya Cole died in Newcastle, County Down on 16 May 2004, from complications of Parkinson's disease, aged 85. She never married.

References

1. ^ Obituary

External links

• QUB obituary for Dr Moya Cole
• BJR website
• BMJ Publishing Group mini-biography of Dr Moya Cole

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Name	Cole, Moya
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Date of birth	31 August 1918
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Date of death	16 May 2004
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