Person

Mackay, Kate

Born
Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Physician

Summary

Kate MacKay was a resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital in 1922, the Women's Hospital, Melbourne, in 1923 and the Children's Hospital, Melbourne, in 1924. In 1939 she became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Mackay was later consultant physician at the Women's Hospital Melbourne (later known as the Royal Women's Hospital) and at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne.

Details

Chronology

c. 1921
Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Melbourne
1922
Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Hospital
1923
Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Women's Hospital, Melbourne
1924
Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
1939
Career position - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
c. 1940 - c. 1945
Career position - Acting Physician in charge of the diabetic clinic at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
1940s - 1960s
Career position - Consultant Physician at the Women's Hospital, Melbourne (later known as the Royal Women's Hospital)
1943 - 1945
Career position - Physician at the Military Annexe of the Queen Victoria Hospital
1950s - 1960s
Career position - Consultant Physician at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne

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

See also

  • Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details

Ailie Smith

EOAS ID: biogs/P004417b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004417b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260