Person
Trinca, John Alfred (Alf) (1884 - 1981)
- Born
- 26 April 1884
Warragul, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 5 August 1981
Hampton, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Pathologist and Surgeon
Summary
John Trinca was a pathologist whose research was on the microscopic anatomy of tumours and other pathological tissues; he advocated using frozen sections of tissue in diagnosis. For 35 years he was associated with the Alfred Hospital. Melbourne, as clinical pathologist, surgeon and curator of the Hospital's Pathology Museum. In the 1920s he taught pathology to medical students at University of Melbourne and, after retiring from the Alfred, dental students. Trinca served as consultant pathologist to the Baker Medical Research Institute, and as consultant surgical specialist to insurance and repatriation tribunals.
Details
Chronology
- 1907
- Education - MB, University of Melbourne
- 1908
- Education - BS, University of Melbourne
- 1910
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Melbourne Hospital
- 1910
- Education - MD, University of Melbourne
- 1911 - 1921
- Career position - Clinical Pathologist (part-time), Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
- 1914 - 1915
- Career position - Civilian surgeon in the hospital ship Grantala
- 1915 - 1918
- Career position - Served with the Royal Army Medical Corps
- 1918 - 1919
- Career position - Surgical Registrar and Senor Demonstrator, Middlesex Hospital, London
- 1919
- Education - Fellow, Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, London
- 1921 - 1946
- Career position - Surgeon, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
- 1926 -
- Education - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- 1927 -
- Career position - Curator, Pathology Museum, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
- 1930 -
- Career position - Consulting Pathologist, Baker Medical Research Institute
- 1946
- Life event - Retired
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Trinca, J. C., Neither hypocrite nor saint: a biography of Alfred John Trinca 1884 - 1981 (Canterbury, Vic.: John C. Trinca, 1994), 307 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Westmore, Ann, 'Trinca, John Alfred ('Alf' or 'AJT') (1884-1981), Pathologist and Surgeon' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 18: 1981 - 1990 L-Z, Melanie Nolan, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2012), pp. 524-5. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/trinca-john-alfred-alf-or-ajt-15913. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21535190. Details
- 'Trinca, John Alfred (18840426-19810805)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1516038. Details
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