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Lloyd-Green, Lorna (1910 - 2002)

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Gynaecologist

Born: 4 February 1910 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Died: 24 June 2002 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Lorna Lloyd-Green was one of the first female obstetricians and gynaecologists working in Melbourne in the first half of the twentieth century. She was a pioneering woman in Australian medicine. Lloyd-Green was an advocate of equal pay for equal work by females in the medical profession and encouraged training for medical women to give them the skills required when applying for senior positions. Late in life she changed career, becoming a music therapist at the Bethlehem Hospital, where she worked with dying patients.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1933 Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne
1934 - 1935 Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Hospital (later known as the Royal Melbourne Hospital)
1935 - 1936 Resident Medical Officer at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
1936 - 1937 Resident Medical Officer at the Women's Hospital, Melbourne (later known as the Royal Women's Hospital)
1939 - 1941 Medical Superintendent at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne
1945 - 1969 Honorary Gynaecologist at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne
1948 President of the Victorian Women's Medical Society
1950 - 1954 Vice-President of the Australian Federation of Medical Women
1951 - 1952 President of the Victorian Women Graduates Association
1956 - 1958 President of the Australian Federation of University Women
1958 - 1968 Vice-President of the Medical Women's International Association
1962 - 1965 Vice-President of the Australian Federation of Medical Women
1964 - 1965 Dean of the Clinical School at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne
1968 Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
1968 - 1972 President of the Medical Women's International Association
1969 First woman Fellow of the Australian Medical Association (AMA)
1969 - 1985 Honorary Consultant at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne
1979 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
1989 - c. 1999 Music Therapist at the Bethlehem Hospital, Victoria

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Prepared by: Ailie Smith
Created: 27 February 2003
Modified: 24 April 2003

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