Audrey Evans
Audrey Elizabeth Evans (6 March 1925 – 29 September 2022) was a British-born American pediatric oncologist who was known as the "Mother of Neuroblastoma". Evans was one of the co-founders of the original Ronald McDonald House in Philadelphia as well as a co-founder of Philadelphia's St. James School. She spent most of her career working at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Early life and education Audrey Elizabeth Evans was born on 6 March 1925 in York, England. She was the youngest of three children born into a middle-class family. Her sister was six years older than her and her brother two years older. She attended a Quaker school before heading to a boarding school in Bristol, England where she stayed until the start of World War II. After the war began she went home and attended The Mount School in York, England. During her senior year, she developed tuberculosis causing her to miss school. Evans trained at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in the early 1950s. She was the only female student in the medical school. She struggled during her first year of medical school and ended up failing. She attributes her failing to the fact that she