Jonathan Martin Whitfield, MB CHB, FRCP(C): A Conversation with the Editor

Abstract

Jonathan Whitfield (Figure ​(Figure11) was born in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, on September 26, 1946. After attending the Waldorf School in Edinburgh, he entered the University of Glasgow in 1964, graduating in medicine with commendation in 1970. His internship was in Glasgow with 6 months of internal medicine and 6 months of general surgery, and then he went to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto for a year of general pediatrics. He returned to Glasgow as a senior houseofficer in pediatric surgery in July 1971. He then went to Auckland, New Zealand, and the National Women's Hospital as a registrar in neonatology for 6 months. Before his return to Canada, he spent 8 months in general medical practice in Papua New Guinea on the island of Bougainville. He completed his pediatric residency at Children's Hospital of East Ontario in Ottawa, Canada, from July 1974 to June 1976. He then went to Denver and the University of Colorado/The Children's Hospital as a fellow in neonatology/perinatology from July 1976 to June 1977. He did another year of neonatology in Toronto at the Hospital for Sick Children and then returned to Denver in 1978, where he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado. He spent a year on sabbatical (July 1987–June 1988) at the Children's Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, DC. In 1991, he and his family moved to Dallas, Texas, where he became medical director of neonatal and pediatric critical care services at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) and, 4 years later, chief of pediatrics at BUMC. Dr. Whitfield has produced here at BUMC one of the finest neonatology departments anywhere. He has received national prominence through his lecturing and publications, virtually all of which are in peer-reviewed medical journals. Additionally, he is a great guy and a very popular member of the BUMC faculty.