Jacqueline Yek-Quen Mok

Jacqueline is a retired senior lecturer at Edinburgh Medical School and consultant paediatrician at NHS Lothian. She graduated from Edinburgh Medical School in 1974 and went on to become consultant paediatrician for community health, Lothian Health Board, as well as a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Children’s Health.

Jacqui was a specialist in paediatrics, with a particular focus on community health and the care of infants and children affected by HIV and AIDS. 
After moving to Edinburgh from Kuala Lumpur in 1968, she graduated from Edinburgh Medical School in 1974, achieving top of her year and winning the Ettles Prize. As a consultant paediatrician, Jacqueline played a pioneering role in confronting the HIV epidemic, working closely with another fellow Edinburgh graduate, Helen Zealley. 

Jacqueline’s research centred on mother-to-child transmissions of HIV, and she worked to develop safe therapies for both children and expectant mothers. She established the first clinic of its kind in the UK for children with HIV at the City Hospital in the mid-1980s, which later moved to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. 

Jacqueline’s major contributions to children’s healthcare, on a local and national level, were to lead the planning, development and delivery of coordinated services in paediatric HIV infection, and child protection.