Person

Woodhill, Joan Mary (1912 - 1990)

Born
5 May 1912
Camden, New South Wales, Australia
Died
December 1990
Occupation
Nutritionist and Dietician

Summary

Joan Woodhill held various positions as a dietician at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney. She studied in the USA, gaining a Master of Science at the University of Minnesota in 1947 and a Doctor of Science at Harvard in 1951.

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Chronology

1937 - 1938
Career position - Assistant Dietician at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney
1939
Career position - Carnegie Scholar in Great Britain and the USA
1940 - 1946
Career position - Chief Dietician at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
1947
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Minnesota, USA
1950s - 1962
Career position - Tutor Dietician at the Royal Newcastle Hospital, New South Wales
1951
Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), Harvard, USA
1962 - ?
Career position - Nutritionist in the Department of Medicine, University of New South Wales and the Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

  • Interview with Joan Woodhill (sound recording), interviewer: Peter Johnson, July 1982, TRC 2404 Int. No. 2023; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details
  • Interview with Joyce Woodhill and Joan Woodhill (sound recording), interviewer: Peter Johnson, July 1982, TRC 2404 Int. No. 2023; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

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

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