Person
Miller, Ian Douglas (Douglas) (1900 - 1996)
Kt
- Born
- 20 July 1900
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 3 January 1996
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Neurosurgeon
Summary
Ian Miller was one of Australia's pioneer neurosurgeons. For nearly 50 years he had a central role in St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, as Neurosurgeon, Dean of the Clinical School for more than 30years, and in retirement as Chairman of the Advisory Board. The neurosurgical unit at St Vincent's has been named the Douglas Miller Department of Neurosurgery. His efforts to engage his neurosurgical colleagues in a professional organisation resulted in the formation in 1940 of the Society of Australasian Neurological Surgeons. Miller was active in the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, being President 1957 - 1959, Chairman of the Editorial Committee for the College's journal for 16 years, and Honorary Archivist for eight years. Between 1956 and 1960 Miller made a number of visits to Southeast Asia under the Colombo Plan to give demonstrations in neurological surgery. In 1964 he played a key role on foundation of Asian-Australasian Neurosurgical Association.
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Chronology
- 1920 - 1963
- Career position - Dean, Clinical School, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1924
- Education - MB, University of Sydney
- 1925
- Career position - Demonstrator in Anatomy, University of Sydney
- 1925 - 1928
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1927
- Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, London
- 1928 - 1930
- Career position - Honorary Assistant Surgeon, St Vincent's Hospital , Sydney
- 1928 - 1933
- Career position - Tutor in surgery, Clinical School, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1930
- Education - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- 1930 - 1947
- Career position - Member, New South Wales State Committee, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- 1933 -
- Career position - Surgical consultant, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Sydney
- 1934 - 1945
- Career position - Lecturer in Surgical Anatomy, University of Sydney
- 1936 - 1939
- Career position - Consultant, Liverpool Hospital, New South Wales
- 1940
- Career position - Founding Member, Society of Australasian Neurological Surgeons
- 1940 - 1944
- Career position - Served with the Australian Imperial Forces
- 1941 - 1960
- Career position - Examiner in Surgery, University of Sydney
- 1947 - 1959
- Career position - Council, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- 1947 - 1965
- Career position - Consultant, Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, New South Wales
- 1948 - 1961
- Career position - Honorary Neurosurgeon, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1954 - 1967
- Career position - Member, Advisory Board, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1957 - 1959
- Career position - President, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- 1957 - 1960
- Career position - Lecturer in Neurosurgery, University of Sydney
- 1958 - 1973
- Career position - Chairman, Editorial Committee, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
- 1960
- Career position - Visiting Professor, University of Singapore
- 1961
- Life event - Retired from hospital appointments
- 1961
- Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt)
- 1967 - 1973
- Career position - Chairman, Advisory Board, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1973
- Career position - Honorary Archivist, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- 1973 - 1980
- Career position - Honorary Archivist, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- 1976
- Life event - Retired from private practice
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Miller, Douglas, Earlier days: a story of St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1969), 84 pp. Details
- Miller, Douglas, A surgeon's story (Sydney: John Ferguson, 1985), 216 pp. Details
Edited Books
- Miller, Douglas ed., The development of surgery in an Australian Hospital, 1857 - 1975: St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney (Singapore: P.G. Medical Books, 1977), 132 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- 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
- Henderson, Keith and Miller, Douglas, 'Francis Patrick Morgan', Medical Journal of Australia, 151 (1989), 482. Details
- Kenny, P. J. and Miller, I. D., 'The founders of the College: New South Wales', Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery, 51 (3) (1981), 319-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1981.tb05970.x. Details
- Loewenthal, John; Kenny, P. J.; and Seng, Yeoh Ghim, 'Douglas Miller [Introduction to special issue of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery]', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 44 (3) (1974), 211-4. Details
Resources
- 'Miller, Ian Douglas (19000720-19960103)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1772721. Details
See also
- 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
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