John Parsons Shillingford
John Parsons Shillingford (1914–1999) was a British physician and cardiologist, known as a pioneer of the introduction of coronary care units in the UK in the 1960s. Biography. After education at Bishop's Stortford College, John Parsons Shillingford studied at the London Hospital Medical School. At the beginning of WWII he won a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship to Harvard Medical School and graduated there MD (Harvard) in 1943. He held medical residency appointments at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital and at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital. He qualified MRCS, LRCP in 1945. He graduated MB BS (London) in 1945  and MD (London) in 1948. After WWII, he worked at the London Hospital until 1950. In 1950 John McMichael, who was forming research teams, recruited Shillingford to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in Hammersmith. Shillingford's research team studied the narrowing of the arteries that occurs with ageing. He promoted engineering and biophysics in cardiovascular research. In 1947 in Brentford, Middlesex, he married Doris Margaret ('Jill') Franklin (1917–1992). Upon his death in 1999 he was survived by two sons and a daughter.