Person
Rundle, Francis Felix (1910 - 1993)
- Born
- 13 April 1910
New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 17 December 1993
Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Medical scientist and Surgeon
Summary
Francis Rundle had a varied career after completing his medical studies in the United Kingdom, holding positions in several London hospitals, serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps, and receiving a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for study in the United States. During this period his research included the use of extensive infiltration anaesthesia in wound management. He returned to Sydney in 1949, establishing a private practice specialising in thyroid conditions. In 1959 Rundle was appointed foundation Professor of Surgery at the University of New South Wales. For 14 years he was also Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Relations with colleagues were sometimes fraught, a dispute over pass standards prompting the resignation of Paul Korner and Ian Darian-Smith, Professors of Physiology. In 1973 Rundle became Director of the University's WHO Regional Teacher Training Centre, which focussed on postgraduate training of medical and paramedical personnel from the Pacific and South-East Asia. The Rundle curve refers to a graph that depicts temporal fluctuations in the severity of the ocular pathology in thyroid disease.
Details
Chronology
- 1931
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney
- 1933
- Education - MB BS, University of Sydney
- 1933 - 1934
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
- 1934
- Life event - Travelled to England
- 1935
- Education - Licentiate, Royal college of Physicians, United Kingdom
- 1935
- Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, United Kingdom
- 1935 - 1940
- Career position - Clinical and tutoring appointments at London hospitals, including Guy's Hospital and Westminster Hospital
- 1939 - 1944
- Career position - Attached to Emergency Medical Service
- 1941
- Education - MD, University of Sydney
- 1944 - 1945
- Career position - Served with the Royal Army Medical Corps
- 1947 - 1948
- Career position - Rockefeller Foundation fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and Stanford Medical Center, California, U.S.A.
- 1948 - 1949
- Career position - Assistant director of the surgical professorial unit, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London
- 1949 - 1959
- Career position - In private practice as a thyroid specialist, Sydney
- 1959 - 1975
- Career position - Foundation Professor of Surgery, University of New South Wales
- 1960 - 1973
- Career position - Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales
- 1973 - 1975
- Career position - Director, WHO Regional Teacher Training Centre, University of New South Wales
- 1984
- Award - Honorary Doctorate of Medicine, University of New South Wales
Related entries
Archival resources
University of New South Wales Archives
- Francis Felix Rundle - Records, 1930 - 1984, CN 100 and others; University of New South Wales Archives. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Carmody, John, 'Rundle, Francis Felix (Frank) (1910-1993), surgeon and medical educator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 19: 1991 - 1995 A-Z, Melanie Nolan, ed. (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2021), pp. 739-740, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rundle-francis-felix-frank-27665. Details
Journal Articles
- Bartley, G. B., 'Rundle and his curve', Archives of Ophthalmology, 129 (2011), 356-8. Details
- Tracy, G. D., 'Francis Felix Rundle', Medical journal of Australia, 161 (1994), 27. Details
Resources
- 'Rundle, F F (1910-1993)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-494722. Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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