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Victorian Medical Women's Society
The Victorian Medical Women's Society (VMWS) is the longest-running association of women medical practitioners and medical students. It was established in Melbourne, Australia in 1895/1896 and is one of the oldest active medical organisations in the world. The aim of the society was to set a benchmark in women's health around Victoria, and to advance the professional development of medical women, through education, research, and the improvement of professional opportunities. The state-run society became affiliated with the national body, Australian Federation of Medical Women (since 1927), and thereby the Medical Women's International Association. History Dr Constance Stone, the first woman to practice medicine in Australia, founded the Victorian Medical Women's Society in 1895/96. It was founded with the aim to further the professional development of medical women by education, research and improvement of professional opportunities. Soon after its foundation, its aims evolve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Federation Of Medical Women
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Vale
Grace Vale (1860–1933) was a pioneer Australian female doctor and suffragist who devoted much of her career to improvement of health services for women and children in Victoria and New South Wales in the late 1800s and early 1900s, especially in rural areas. Early life and education Grace Vale was born in the then British colony of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, Victoria, Richmond, on 14 May 1860. She was the first of six daughters of bookseller and later prominent Victorian politician, William Mountford Kinsey Vale (1833–1895) and his wife Rachel Lennox. Her sister, May Vale, was an Australian painter. Grace Vale received part of her education in England, where her parents had married the year before her birth, but was mostly educated in Victoria. She passed her matriculation examination in 1882, and had been studying biology at Melbourne University in 1887 when she became one of seven members of a group who, despite some strong opposit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Daws
Dr Dame Joyce Margaretta Daws DBE FRCS FRACS FAMA (21 July 1925 – 13 June 2007) was an Australian-based British doctor who specialised in thoracic surgery at various hospitals for over twenty years, primarily in Melbourne. She held the post of Consultant Surgeon of Melbourne. Early life The Hounslow-born Daws, having been educated at Royal School for Naval and Marine Officers' Daughters, St Paul's Girls' School, received a scholarship to study classics at Cambridge University. Career During the second world war, Daws enrolled to study at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, receiving her MBBS in 1949. In 1952, she was awarded a post-graduate scholarship to study surgery, and she passed the exams to be a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Daws worked at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in the UK until Lorna Verdun Sisely visited the hospital on her trip to gain surgical knowledge of the latest techniques and technology, and to recruited Daws to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena McEwan
Lena McEwan MBBS MS FRCS FRACS, (11 August 1927 - 4 October 2011) was the first woman to specialise in plastic surgery in Australia. She achieved her MBBS in 1949 from the University of Adelaide. Lena trained in Australia and England, completing her FRCS(Eng) Diploma in 1954 before returning to Adelaide and completing the FRACS Diploma in 1958. Lena published notable research on median and ulnar nerve injuries in 1962 which influenced future surgical practice. She was also president of the Victorian Medical Women's Society. Lena was also part of an interdisciplinary team formed in 1976 to work on gender reassignment who published their work in 1986: ''Male-to-Female Surgical Genital Reassignment.'' Lena was born on 11 August 1927 in South Australia and her parents had recently immigrated from Glasgow. She was educated at St Peter's Collegiate Girls School and the University of Adelaide. Lena McEwan worked in the following hospitals: * Royal Adelaide Hospital (Resident Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Lloyd-Green
Lorna Lloyd-Green, (4 February 1910 – 24 June 2002) was an Australian Obstetrics and gynaecology, obstetrician-gynecologist and the president of the Medical Women's International Association from 1968 to 1972. She was the first woman to be elected a fellow of the Australian Medical Association. As one of the first women physicians in Melbourne, she advocated for women in medicine throughout her career, and is credited for playing the principal role in achieving equal pay for women physicians in Australia. Early life and education Lorna Lloyd-Green was born on 4 February 1910 in Melbourne, Australia. Her father was a veterinarian and her mother a former school-teacher. She had three siblings. Lloyd-Green attended Penleigh Presbyterian Girls School, Moonee Ponds and Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School in Essendon from 1920, and then went on to study medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1928. Lloyd-Green graduated from the University of Melbourne with an Bachelor of Medicin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Littlejohn
Jean Littlejohn (3 April 1899 – 27 November 1990) was an Australian surgeon, early practitioner of the developing field of otorhinolaryngology, and pioneer of deafness research. She joined the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne, Australia and maintained a long association with the hospital until her retirement in 1974. Early life Jean Littlejohn was born on 3 April 1899 in Nelson, New Zealand, the youngest of the five children of Scottish-born William Still Littlejohn and Jean (née Berry). The family moved to Melbourne in 1904 when William Littlejohn was appointed headmaster of Scotch College. Jean was educated at Scotch College's sister school, Presbyterian Ladies' College, where she found both academic and sporting success. Career Littlejohn studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1922, and joined the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital as a medical resident. She began private practice in 1924 while continuing to work at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Macnamara
Dame Annie Jean Macnamara, (1 April 1899 – 13 October 1968) was an Australian medical doctor and scientist, best known for her contributions to children's health and welfare. She was honoured as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1935. Early life and education Annie Jean Macnamara was born on 1 April 1899 to John and Annie Macnamara in Beechworth, Victoria. Her family moved to Melbourne when she was seven and she attended Spring Road State School. She received a scholarship to study at the Presbyterian Ladies' College. She entered the University of Melbourne at age 17 and graduated M.B. and B.S. in 1922; other notable Australians who also graduated in her class included Dame Kate Isabel Campbell, Lucy Meredith Bryce, Jean Littlejohn, and Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet. Career After graduating, she became a resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. In 1923, Macnamara became a resident doctor at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Glowrey
Mary Glowrey (1887–1957) was an Australian born and educated doctor who spent 37 years in India, where she set up healthcare facilities, services and systems. She is believed to be the first Catholic religious sister-in-vows to practise as a doctor. The Catholic Church is investigating her Cause for Canonisation and declared her a Servant of God in 2013. Early life Mary Glowrey was born in the Victorian town of Birregurra on 23 June 1887.Mary Glowrey, "God’s Good For Nothing: Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart", ''The Horizon'' (1 June 1987): 8. Her family moved to Garvoc, then north to Watchem, in Victoria’s Mallee region. Her father, Edward Glowrey, operated the general store at Birregurra, then hotels at Garvoc and Watchem. Education In 1900 Glowrey came fourth of 800 entrants in a Victorian State Education secondary scholarship exam. From 1901 to 1904 she attended South Melbourne College (SMC), in Bank Street, South Melbourne. She boarded at the Good Shepherd Conv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dame Kate Campbell
Dame Kate Isabel Campbell, DBE, FRCOG (22 April 1899 — 12 July 1986) was a noted Australian physician and paediatrician. Campbell's discovery, that blindness in premature babies was caused by high concentrations of oxygen, resulted in the alteration of the treatment of premature babies world-wide and for this she received global recognition. Biography Family Born in Hawthorn, Melbourne to Scottish-born Donald Campbell, a clerk, and his wife, New Zealand-born Janet Duncan (née Mill), a former school teacher. Campbell was the third of four siblings. Her youngest brother Donald was the barrister who defended Frank Hardy in the ''Power without Glory'' trial. Education Despite Campbell's parents' appreciation for an education, the family's low financial situation meant her elder two brothers left school early. Campbell attended the Manningtree Road Primary School and while attending she was awarded a Junior Program Government Scholarship to the Methodist Ladies Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Clementina De Garis
Mary Clementina De Garis (16 December 1881 – 18 November 1963) was an Australian medical doctor. During World War I she worked at the Ostrovo Unit in Serbia for the Scottish Women's Hospitals and after the war worked at Geelong Hospital in Australia. She was an advocate of antenatal and postnatal care. Early life and education Mary Clementina De Garis was born in Charlton, Victoria in 1881. She was the daughter of a Mildura clergyman and irrigation pioneer Elisha Clement De Garis, known as Elizee De Garis, and Elizabeth Buncle, a midwife. There were six children in the family: Mary and Elizabeth (twins), Clement,(known as Jack), Lilian, Alfred, and Lucas (known as George). In 1898 Mary De Garis was dux of her year at the Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne. In 1900 she enrolled in medicine at the University of Melbourne. De Garis was the thirty-first woman to enroll in medicine from the University of Melbourne, awarded a Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.) in 1904 and Bachelo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Ellis
Constance Ellis (2 November 1872 – 10 September 1942) was an Australian medical doctor who specialised in obstetrics, gynaecology and pathology. In 1903 she became the first woman to graduate from the University of Melbourne as a Doctor of Medicine. Biography Constance Ellis was born in 1872 in Carlton, Victoria, to Lydia Constance (née Phillips) and Louis Ellis, a Victorian sheriff. She attended school at Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, and graduated in 1890. She studied medicine at the University of Melbourne from 1894 to 1899, finishing second in her class in surgery and third in medicine. After graduating, she completed a year's residency at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and another two years at the Royal Children's Hospital. In 1903 she returned to the University of Melbourne to sit the examination to obtain a Doctor of Medicine; she was the first woman at the university to obtain the degree. Ellis began working for the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne pathol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Council Of Women Of Australia
The National Council of Women of Australia (NWA) is an Australian organisation founded in 1931. The council is an umbrella organisation with which are affiliated seven State and Territory National Councils of Women. It is non-party political, non-sectarian, volunteer organisation and open to all women. It first affiliated with the International Council of Women in 1896, through the New South Wales NCW. The Constituent councils were formed in: * New South Wales −1896 * Tasmania – 1899, * Victoria and South Australia – 1902 * National Council of Women of Queensland – 1905 * Western Australia −1911 * Australian Capital Territory −1939 * Northern Territory – 1964. The NCWA works on a Triennium basis and holds a conference every 18 months to encourage participation in its policy platform. The Pacific Assembly was a gathering in Brisbane City, Australia, over a three-day period in the 20th century. The assembly was sponsored by the National Council of Women. The gatheri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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