Miriam Stoppard
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Miriam, Lady Hogg (née Stern, born 12 May 1937), better known by her former married name Miriam Stoppard, is an English medical doctor, author, television presenter, and advice columnist.
Early life and medical career
Miriam Stern was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. Sidney's father, a nurse, and her mother, Jenny, worked with the Newcastle school dinners service. Muril Hazel Stern, a social justice activist, is her sister. Her family was Orthodox. She was a member of the Orthodox Jewish synagogue. Her father was Jewish and her mother converted to Judaism.
Stern grew up on a council housing estate. Miriam's mother was a dressmaker who taught her how to make her own clothes, and she began purchasing remnants of cloth from an early age. She made her own designs up to her teens, complemented by inexpensive and improvised accessories.
She went to school on a scholarship as a teen. She had aspired to become a doctor early in her childhood, inspired by her father. She loved music, danced, and played table tennis outside of school. Stern attended the Central High School in Eskdale Terrace and gained experience as a nurse at the Newcastle General Hospital (Royal Free Medical School). She continued to study medicine at King's College Durham (which later became Newcastle University in 1963).
Career
Stoppard began working as a physician and then specialized in dermatology at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, before becoming a senior registryar at Bristol Royal Infirmary. She joined Syntex as both a research director and then as the company's managing director. She became well known in the 1970s and 1980s as a television presenter on scientific and medical television shows such as Don't Ask Me and Where There's Life.
Stoppard has written numerous books about health, including the Children's Medical Handbook, but particularly on the topic of women's health. She writes about health problems and appears as an agony aunt for the Daily Mirror, having previously answered reader emails for TV Times newspaper. Miriam Stoppard Lifetime, her company, sells her books and health items.
In the 2010 New Year Honours for services to healthcare and charity, Stoppard was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
Stoppard said in August 2012 that he wrote in the Daily Mirror that UCL's Institute of Child Health Research recommended exclusive breastfeeding until six months, but that the appearance of teeth should indicate the end of breastfeeding. On November 6th of this year, she was named Journalist of the Year at the Stonewall Awards.