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Margot Shiner

Margot Shiner was a German-British gastroenterologist who worked in London and Israel and developed a technique to biopsy the small intestine in children.

1923 to 1998The Shiner mucosal biopsy tubePediatric gastroenterology researchDiagnosing coeliac disease in children

Born: 4 June 1923, Berlin
Died: 31 July 1998, Jerusalem
Occupation: gastroenterologist
Education: University of Leeds, Leeds School of Medicine

Margot Shiner was born in 1923 in Berlin

Margot Last was born in Berlin in 1923 to a Jewish family. Her father was a textile merchant. In 1936 the family fled Nazi Germany to Prague, and in 1938 they settled in London.

She went to Parliament Hill School and earned a medical degree from the University of Leeds in 1947. Soon after, she married Alex Shiner, and they had three sons.

She worked in London hospitals, including Great Ormond Street Hospital, and then turned to research at Hammersmith Hospital. In 1956 she designed a tube to take biopsies from the small intestine of children, used to diagnose coeliac disease. In 1957 she joined a Medical Research Council unit at Central Middlesex Hospital, where she became a consultant in 1971.

In 1983 she moved to Israel and set up a department of pediatric gastroenterology at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center. She was a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University and became an emeritus professor of medicine in 1991. She died in Jerusalem in 1998 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.