Henry Halliday
Henry Halliday | |
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Halliday at his acceptance of the James Spence Medal | |
| Born | 29 November 1945 |
| Died | 12 November 2022 (aged 76) Belfast |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Queen's University Belfast, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland, University of California, San Francisco |
| Known for | Developing a pulmonary surfactant that enabled very small babies to breathe properly |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pediatrics, neonatology |
| Institutions | Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital, Mater Infirmorum Hospital, Queen's University Belfast |
Henry Lewis Halliday (29 November 1945 – 12 November 2022) was a British-Irish paediatrician and neonatologist. In 2021, Halliday was awarded the James Spence Medal for research into neonatology, for coordinating two of the largest neonatal multicentre trials for prevention and treatment of a number of neonatal respiratory illnesses and for a breakthrough in the development of a new lung surfactant that brought relief to very small babies suffering from infant respiratory distress syndrome (RDS).