Margaret Billingham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Margaret Billingham

Kenyan-born American pathologist (1930-2009)

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1930

Place of Birth: Tanga, Tanga Region, Tanzania

Date of Death: 14-Jul-2009

Profession: pathologist

Nationality: Tanzania

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Margaret E.
Billingham (née Macpherson) (September 20, 1930 - July 14, 2009) was a pathologist at Stanford University Medical Center, who made significant achievements in the early recognition and grading of transplant rejection following cardiac transplantation, known as 'Billingham's Criteria'.
She also described chronic rejection and techniques in heart endomyocardial biopsy. Born in Tanzania, and educated in Kenya and subsequently qualified from the Royal Free Hospital in London, Billingham found herself developing rejection pathology and eventually becoming director of cardiac pathology at Stanford University Medical Center.
She settled in the United States with her husband, who was also a doctor, and their two children, and died there in 2009.