Dr Dame Joyce Margaretta Daws DBE FRCS FRACS

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(21 July 1925 – 13 June 2007) was an

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n-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 UCL Medical School is the medical school of University College London (UCL) and is located in London, United Kingdom. The School provides a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education programmes and also has a medical educati ...

, receiving her

MBBS Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ( la, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; abbreviated most commonly MBBS), is the primary medical degree awarded by medical schools in countries that follow the tradition of the United King ...

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

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 work at the Queen Victoria Medical Centre. In 1956 Daws moved to Melbourne Australia to work with Sisely. *Member, Victorian Nursing Council (1974-2007) *President of the Cancer Institute of Victoria (and board member; 1978–80) *Chairman, Victorian Nursing Council (1983–89) *Chairman, International Protea Association (1987–96)Biodata
womenaustralia.info; accessed 25 July 2017. *Member, Victorian Medical Women's Society

Death

Dr Dame Joyce Daws died in Victoria on 13 June 2007, aged 81, from undisclosed causes and left $10,000 to the Nurses Board of Victoria (NBV).

Honours

She was appointed

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on 14 June 1975 "for her services to medicine".

Legacy

*Dame Joyce Daws Churchill Fellowship Grant

References

External links

University of Melbourne/Bright Sparcs Archival and HeritageRoyal Free Hospital newsletter (PDF)
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