page_title: Jane Somerville
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Jane Somerville / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Jane Somerville 20 August 2019, Terrace garden, London
context_page_description: Jane Somerville is a British emeritus professor of cardiology, Imperial College, who is best known for defining the concept and subspecialty of grown ups with congenital heart disease and being chosen as the physician involved with Britain's first heart transplantation in 1968.
  Somerville was educated first at a boys preparatory school in North Wales, then Queen's College, London, and later at Guy's Hospital Medical School. Initially drawn to surgery, she chose to pursue a career in cardiology at the National Heart Hospital, Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street and later at the Brompton Hospital.
  Her work led to the opening of the world's first dedicated ward for children and adolescents with congenital heart disease, the first World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology in London, and a GUCH charity which was later renamed "The Somerville Foundation" in her honour. The medical professionals who she trained and who have come to celebrate and follow her are known as "Unicorns".
context_section_description: In 1957, Platnauer married Walter Somerville, who she met in the late 1940s, when she was age 16 and he was staying next door. The couple had four children; one daughter and three sons . Walter died in 2005.
  Her hobbies include collecting antiques, roof gardening and opera.
caption: Jane Somerville, roof garden (2019)
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