Person
Sewell, Sidney Valentine (1880 - 1949)
- Born
- 14 February 1880
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 13 March 1949
Berwick, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Physician
Summary
Sir Sidney Sewell worked for a short period as a neurologist and assistant pathologist at St Vincent's Hospital, then took up the post of physician to out-patients at (Royal) Melbourne Hospital (c.1911). He also lectured in neurology at the University of Melbourne and ran a private medical practice in Melbourne. During the early 1920s, Sewell visited the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest in Brompton, London, to learn the technique of artificial pneumothorax, and to the United States of America to study the management of tuberculosis. Upon returning to Victoria and after much effort and criticism he managed to establish a State tuberculosis service in Victoria. In 1930 Sewell co-founded the Association of Physicians of Australasia which was the forerunner of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Sir Sidney Sewell was knighted in 1945 for his services to the medical profession.
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Chronology
- 1905
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Melbourne
- c. 1906
- Career position - Senior Resident Medical Officer at Melbourne Hospital
- c. 1907
- Career position - Acting Lectureship in Pathology, University of Melbourne
- 1908 - 1910
- Career position - Clinical studies and practice in England and Germany
- 1910 -
- Career position - Private medical practice established in Collins Street, Melbourne
- 1910
- Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Melbourne
- 1930
- Career position - Co-Founder of the Association of Physicians of Australasia
- 1938
- Career position - Association of Physicians of Australasia converted to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- 1938 - 1940
- Career position - Vice-President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- 1939 -
- Career position - Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London
- 1939
- Career position - Retired from the Royal Melbourne Hospital but remained on as a consulting physician
- 1940 - 1942
- Career position - President, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- 1945
- Award - Knighted (Kt)
Published resources
Books
- McDonald, G. L., Roll of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1988), 332 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Hurley, John V., 'Sewell, Sir Sidney Valentine (1880-1949), Physician' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 569-570. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110581b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- White, E. Rowden, 'Obituary: Sidney Valentine Sewell', Medical Journal of Australia, 1949 (1) (1949), 666-8. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21538220. Details
- 'Sewell, Sidney Valentine (1880-1949)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476092. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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