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Rosengarten, David Samuel (1937 - 1994)

 
Surgeon
Born: 27 October 1937  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.  Died: 20 February 1994.
David Samuel Rosengarten was Chairman of Surgery and Clinical Support and head of the Vascular Unit at the Alfred Hospital in Victoria from 1989. He was a pioneer in techniques to prevent patients getting blood clots during surgery. After completing his undergraduate studies, Rosengarten eventually travelled overseas for further training. During this time he spent three months on the Alfred Hospital Australian Civil Surgical Team at Ben Hoa in Vietnam and three years at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School Hospital in Hammersmith. Upon his return to Australia, Rosengarten worked as assistant general-surgeon at the Alfred Hospital and lecturer of surgery at Monash University. In 1974 he and others established the Alfred Hospital Vascular Unit and became supervisor of surgical training at the Alfred Hospital.

Career Highlights

Chronology
c. 1962Completed medical studies at the Unviersity of Melbourne
1962 - 1963Resident at the Alfred Hospital in Prahran,, Victoria
1964Demonstrator in the Anatomy at the University of Melbourne
c. 1964 - c. 1967Worked and studied overseas at various places including Ben Hoa, Vietnam and Hammersmith, UK
1974Helped establish the Alfred Hospital Vascular Unit
1985President of Rotary's Toorak branch
1989 - 1994Head of the Alfred Hospital Vascular Unit

 

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Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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