Person
Lloyd-Green, Lorna (1910 - 2002)
CBE OBE
- Born
- 4 February 1910
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 24 June 2002
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Gynaecologist
Summary
Lorna Lloyd-Green was one of the first female obstetricians and gynaecologists working in Melbourne in the first half of the twentieth century. She was a pioneering woman in Australian medicine. Lloyd-Green was an advocate of equal pay for equal work by females in the medical profession and encouraged training for medical women to give them the skills required when applying for senior positions. Late in life she changed career, becoming a music therapist at the Bethlehem Hospital, where she worked with dying patients.
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Chronology
- 1933
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Melbourne
- 1934 - 1935
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Hospital (later known as the Royal Melbourne Hospital)
- 1935 - 1936
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
- 1936 - 1937
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Women's Hospital, Melbourne (later known as the Royal Women's Hospital)
- 1939 - 1941
- Career position - Medical Superintendent at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne
- 1945 - 1969
- Career position - Honorary Gynaecologist at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne
- 1948
- Career position - President, Victorian Women's Medical Society
- 1950 - 1954
- Career position - Vice-President of the Australian Federation of Medical Women
- 1951 - 1952
- Career position - President, Victorian Women Graduates Association
- 1956 - 1958
- Career position - President, Australian Federation of University Women
- 1958 - 1968
- Career position - Vice-President of the Medical Women's International Association
- 1962 - 1965
- Career position - Vice-President of the Australian Federation of Medical Women
- 1964 - 1965
- Career position - Dean of the Clinical School at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne
- 1968
- Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- 1968 - 1972
- Career position - President, Medical Women's International Association
- 1969
- Career position - First woman Fellow of the Australian Medical Association (AMA)
- 1969 - 1985
- Career position - Honorary Consultant at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne
- 1979
- Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1989 - c. 1999
- Career position - Music Therapist at the Bethlehem Hospital, Victoria
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
Journal Articles
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Lorna Lloyd-Green', Uni News, 12 (17) (2003), 4. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Wheat, Ken and Lyn and Patterson, Kaye, 'Obituary: Dr Lorna Lloyd-Green, CBE, OBE', The Age (2002). Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22006341. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/3074150085875715060003. Details
- 'Lloyd-Green, Lorna (1910-2002)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-756071. Details
See also
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 27 February 2003, Last modified: 15 June 2022