Marcelle Alpheda Maria MacNamara was a consultant ENT surgeon at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham. She was a lead clinician in head and neck oncology. She was born on 18 September 1958. Her maiden name was Von Schoenberg. She studied medicine at Somerville College, Oxford University, and went on to University College Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1985. Prior to her consultant appointment in Birmingham she was an ENT registrar at the Royal Ear Hospital and University College Hospital, London, and then a senior registrar (ENT) on the west Midlands rotation. She was a member of the British Association of Head and Neck Oncology and the Midlands Institute of Otorhinolaryngology. Marcelle Alpheda Maria MacNamara died on 11 April 2009. She was 50.