Person
Lindon, Leonard Charles Edward (1896 - 1978)
Kt
- Born
- 8 February 1896
North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 28 August 1978
North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Neurosurgeon
Summary
Leonard Lindon was the first neurosurgeon appointed to South Australia's main teaching hospital, Royal Adelaide Hospital, and headed it's neurosurgical unit for 20 years. In his early career London practiced as a general surgeon. An extended tour of leading neurosurgical centres in Europe and North America 1929 - 1930 influenced him to specialise in neurosurgery. His concept of a modern neurological unit, including specialised theatre staff and a research component, was not wholly realised, but he laid the foundation for his successor to develop a state-wide, multidisciplinary head injury service. Lindon's principal interests were brain tumours, aneurysms, and head injuries and traumas. He readily adopted innovative techniques such as air ventriculography and encephalography, and was among the first in Australia to obtain X-rays of blood vessels in the brain. Lindon was a pioneer in intervertebral disc protrusion surgery and in 1945 performed Australia's first prefrontal leucotomy. He was active in professional organisations, serving as President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and being a founding Member of the Society of Australasian Neurological Surgeons in 1940.
Details
Chronology
- 1915 - 1916
- Career position - Served with the Australian Imperial Forces
- 1919
- Education - MB, University of Adelaide
- 1920 - 1922
- Award - Rhodes Scholarship, Balliol College, University of Oxford
- 1922
- Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, London
- 1922
- Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh
- 1923
- Education - MS, University of Adelaide
- 1925 - 1931
- Career position - Honorary Assistant Surgeon, Adelaide Hospital
- 1931 - 1946
- Career position - Honorary Surgeon, Royal Adelaide Hospital
- 1931 - 1951
- Career position - Head of the neurological unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital
- 1934 - 1935
- Career position - President, South Australian Branch, British Medical Association
- 1940
- Career position - Served with Australian Army Medical Corps
- 1940
- Career position - Founding Member, Society of Australasian Neurological Surgeons
- 1946 - 1951
- Career position - Honorary Neurosurgeon, Royal Adelaide Hospital
- 1951
- Life event - Retired from Royal Adelaide Hospital
- 1956 - 1958
- Career position - Vice-President, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- 1959 - 1961
- Career position - President, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- 1962
- Career position - President, Neurosurgical Research Foundation
- 1964
- Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt) - for services to neurosurgery
Related entries
Published resources
Book Sections
- Fraenkel, G.J., 'Lindon, Sir Leonard Charles (1896-1978), Neurosurgeon' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 98-99. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150124b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Anon, 'Sir Leonard Lindon', Medical Journal of Australia, 1979 (2) (1979), 141-2. Details
- Simpson, Donald, 'Neurosurgery in the age of Cushing: the achievement of Leonard Lindon', ANZ Journal of Surgery, 82 (2012), 311-7. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24239548. Details
- 'Lindon, Leonard Charles Edward (18960208-19780828)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1478673. Details
See also
- Curtis, J. Bryant, Miller, Douglas and Simpson, Donald, 'The Neurosurgical Society of Australasia: the first forty years', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 50 (4) (1980), 434-7. Details
- Simpson, D. A.; Jamieson, K. G.; and Morson, S. M., 'The foundations of neurosurgery in Australian and New Zealand', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 44 (3) (1974), 215-27. Details
Helen Cohn
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