Bob Elliott (medical researcher)

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Sir Robert Bartlett Elliott, KNZM (3 January 1934 – 21 August 2020), was a New Zealand medical researcher who specialized in pediatrics. He was born in Adelaide, Australia, and studied medicine at the University of Adelaide from 1951 to 1956. After working as a house surgeon in Blenheim, New Zealand, he trained in paediatric medicine in Adelaide and Denver. In 1963 he became a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide, and in 1970 he moved to the University of Auckland as the foundation professor of paediatrics. He was named a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1999 for his medical research, and was knighted as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2020 for the same work. Elliott died at his home in Auckland on 21 August 2020, aged 86.