Woolcock, Ann Janet (1937 - 2001)

Summary

Ann Woolcock was Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Sydney 1984-2001. She was an expert on asthma.

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Chronology

1961

Career position - Junior Resident Medical Officer, Royal Adelaide Hospital

1961

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Adelaide

1962

Career position - Senior Resident Medical Officer, Broken Hill and District Hospital

1963

Career position - Research Fellow, Page Chest Pavillion, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney

1964 - 1968

Career position - Research Fellow, Page Chest Pavillion and Department of Medicine, University of Sydney

1967

Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Sydney

1969

Career position - Senior Research Fellow, Asthma Foundation of New South Wales and the Department of Medicine, University of Sydney

1970

Career position - Basser Research Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

1971

Career position - Visiting Medical Officer, Repatriation General Hospital in Concord

1971

Career position - Clinical Supervisor (medical), Repatriation General Hospital Concord

1973 - ?

Career position - Visiting Medical Officer, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney

1973

Career position - Senior Lecturer, Department of Medicine, University of Sydney

1973 - 1992

Career position - Board of Directors, Asthma Foundation of New South Wales

1975 - ?

Career position - Convenor, National Asthma Workshop

1975 - 1980

Career position - Chairman, Medical Coordinating Committee, Council of Asthma Foundations of Australia

1976 - 1984

Career position - Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Sydney

1977 - ?

Career position - Head of the Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney

1978 - ?

Career position - Board of Directors, Community Health and Anti-Tuberculosis Association of New South Wales

1984 - 2001

Career position - Professor of Respiratory Medicine (Personal Chair), University of Sydney

1985 - ?

Career position - Director, Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney

1989

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) - For service to medicine, particularly in the firled of respiratory medicine.

1992

Award - Life Governor, Asthma Foundation of New South Wales

1992 - 2001

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1993

Award - Fisons Medal, Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand

Related entries

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

Books

• Bhathal, Ragbir, Profiles, Australian women scientists (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1999), 191 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Smith, Babette, 'Ann Janet Woolcock 1937-2001', Historical Records of Australian Science, 25 (2) (2014), 313-36, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR14023. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17711341. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/48202671. Details
• 'Woolcock, Ann Janet (1937 - 2001)', Fellows of the Academy, Australian Academy of Science, 2019, https://www.science.org.au/profile/ann-woolcock. Details
• 'Woolcock, A (1937-2001)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-492774. Details

Resource Sections

• Stone, Johnathon, 'Interview with Professor Ann Woolcock (1937-2001)', in Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 2000, https://www.science.org.au/learning/general-audience/history/interviews-australian-scientists/professor-ann-woolcock-1937-2001. Details