Ruth Wynne-Davies
Born	Ruth Blower 1926 London, England
Died	2012 Oxford, England

Ruth Wynne-Davies or Ruth Blower (1926–2012) was a British medical doctor and scholar of orthopaedics. She researched and wrote about clubfoot and scoliosis.

Wynne-Davies was born in London in 1926. She attended Oswestry High School for Girls. After finishing school, she was a land girl. She then worked as a secretary before starting her training in medicine at the Royal Free School of Medicine. She was encouraged and financially supported to do so by her uncle, Llewellyn Wynne-Davies. In 1959, she changed her name to Wynne-Davies, in his honour. ^[1]

In her early medical career, she worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital as a house officer, then as a surgical registrar at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. After a period of time as a prosector in anatomy at the Royal Free Hospital in London, she became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1960. ^[2]

She turned her attention to research at University of Edinburgh, ^[3] completing work on the genetics of clubfoot, and publishing numerous research articles on that subject. ^{[4] [5] [6]} She received a medal from the British Orthopaedic Association. She made significant contributions to research in the field of scoliosis. ^{[3] [7] [8]} She also set up specialist clinics for treating scoliosis in Harlow Wood, Edinburgh, London and Oswestry. ^{[1] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}

Wynne-Davies achieved a PhD in 1973 for her thesis on the aetiology of scoliosis, before becoming a reader in orthopaedics. She took early retirement from the University of Edinburgh in 1981, moving to Oxford. ^[13] There, she studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education. ^[1]

She died in Oxford in 2012. ^{[1] [14]}

In 2018, Wynne-Davies was found to be the most highly-cited British author of works on spinal deformity. ^[15]

• James, John Ivor Pulsford, Zorab, P.A., & Wynne-Jones, Ruth (1967) Scoliosis. E & S Livingstone ^[3]
• Wynne-Davis, Ruth (1973) Genetic and Other Factors in the Aetiology of Scoliosis. University of Edinburgh ^[7]
• Wynne-Davies, Ruth, Hall, Christine M. & Apley, Alan Graham (1985) Atlas of Skeletal Dysplasias. Churchill Livingstone ^[16]