Person
Ellis, Constance (1872 - 1942)
- Born
- 2 November 1872
Carlton, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 10 September 1942
South Yarra, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Physician
Summary
Constance Ellis was the first women to graduate with a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Melbourne (1903). Her undergraduate record was outstanding as she gained honours in every year of her course and in her final year exams came second in surgery and third in medicine. Ellis gained a one-year residentship at the Melbourne Hospital and later established a private obstetrics and general medicine practice in Malvern. She held many other posts at various hospitals around Melbourne. Constance Ellis was also an inaugural council member of the Victorian Baby Health Centres Association and its vice-president from 1920 to 1942; president of the Medical Women's Society; councillor of the British Medical Association, Victorian branch; and the first Australian female councillor of the parent British Medical Association.
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Chronology
- 1894 - 1899
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (ChB), University of Melbourne
- c. 1900
- Career position - Resident at the Melbourne Hospital
- 1901 - 1902
- Career position - Resident at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
- 1902 - 1907
- Career position - Honorary Surgeon at the Queen Victoria Hospital
- 1903
- Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Melbourne
- 1908 - 1919
- Career position - Honorary Pathologist at the Queen Victoria Hospital
- 1918 - 1919
- Career position - Founder and President of the Lyceum Club
- 1920 - 1942
- Career position - Vice-President of the Victorian Baby Health Centres Association
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Book Sections
- Ellis, A. S., 'Ellis, Constance (1872-1942)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), p. 433. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080456b.htm. Details
- Radi, Heather, 'Constance Ellis (1872-1942) doctor' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details
Edited Books
- Radi, H. ed., 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988), 268 pp. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5163528. Details
- 'Ellis, Constance (18721102-19420910)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-754059. Details
See also
- 'Ellis, Constance (1872 - 1942), Medical practitioner', RMIT University History, RMIT University Archives, 2022, https://www.lib.rmit.edu.au/university-archives/finding-aids/ohrm/web/biogs/E000011b.htm. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 4 February 2010
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