Person

Duhig, James Vincent Joseph (1889 - 1963)

Born
22 November 1889
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Died
14 April 1963
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Physician and Pathologist

Summary

James Duhig was an eminent pathologist who was heavily involved in the development of the profession in Australia, especially in Queensland. He established the first pathology laboratories at the Mater Misericordiae and Brisbane General Hospitals, was founder of the Red Cross Blood Bank in Queensland and became president of the Association of Clinical Pathologists. Duhig was also a key instigator in the establishment of the School of Medicine at the University of Queensland and the formation of the College of Pathologists of Australia. He was made an honorary member of the later and was the first professor of pathology at former.

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Chronology

1914
Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (ChM), University of Sydney
1917 - 1919
Military service - First World War. Medical Officer with the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in Europe
Apr 1919 - Jul 1919
Education - Postgraduate work (four months) at King's College Hospital, London
1920
Career position - Pathology laboratories established at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital
1920 - c. 1937
Career position - Pathologist at Wickham Terrace
1924
Career position - Pathology laboratories established in the Brisbane General Hospital
1937 -
Career event - Member, Australian National Reseach Council [by being a Fellow of ANZAAS resident in Australia]
1937
Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
1938 - 1947
Career position - Inaugural Professor of Pathology, University of Queensland

Published resources

Books

  • Gregory, Helen, Vivant Professores: Distinguished Members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Library, 1987), 180 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Leggett, C. A. C., 'Duhig, James Vincent (1889-1963), medical practitioner' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 359-360. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080383b.htm. Details

Resources

See also

  • Dahlitz, Ray, Secular who's who : a biographical directory of freethinkers, secularists, rationalists, humanists and others involved in Australia's secular movement from 1850 onwards (Balwyn, Victoria: R. Dahlitz, 1994), 192 pp. p.93. Details

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