Person
Sisely, Lorna Verdun (1916 - 2004)
OBE FRACS
- Born
- 14 March 1916
Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 27 January 2004
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Surgeon
Summary
Lorna Sisely was only the second person in Australia to receive a fellowship for the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (FRACS). After starting a science degree at the University of Melbourne, she switched medicine in 1937 and won top awards throughout her studies. Sisely's first position was as a Resident at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne where she became assistant to the senior surgeon. In 1947 she moved to the Queen Victoria Hospital and also took up the post of Anatomy Demonstrator at the University of Melbourne where she completed her Master of Surgery there. Sisely was the first female to win the A. Gordon Craig Travelling Scholarship which she used to study female urology and surgery overseas. Upon returning to Australia she became Senior Surgeon at the Queen Victoria Hospital - a position she held for thirty four years - and in 1980 established the hospital's first breast clinic.
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Chronology
- 1942 - 1944
- Career position - Junior Resident Medical Officer and Senior Resident Medical Officer at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne
- 1947 - 1949
- Career position - Demonstrator in the Department of Anatomy and Pathology, University of Melbourne
- 1947 - 1949
- Career position - Honorary Assistant Surgeon at the Children's Hospital, Victoria
- 1947 - 1981
- Career position - Surgeon Senior Staff at the Queen Victoria Medical Centre (previously the Queen Victoria Hospital), Victoria
- 1949
- Award - Gordon Craig Scholarship in Surgery
- 1962 -
- Career position - Member of the American College of Surgeons
- 1964 - 1981
- Career position - Member of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria
- 1979
- Career position - Founder and Consultant Surgeon in the Breast Clinic at Monash Medical Centre, Victoria
- 1980
- Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- 1980 - 1981
- Career position - Dean of the Clinical School in the Queen Victoria Medical Centre, Monash University, Victoria
- 1981 -
- Career position - Consultant Surgeon at the Monash Medical Centre, 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
Resources
- 'Sisely, Lorna Verdun (1916-2004)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-741075. Details
See also
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
Ailie Smith & Annette Alafaci
Created: 5 March 2003, Last modified: 15 June 2022