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Mackay, Patricia (1926 - )

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Anaesthetist
Born: 18 August 1926  New Zealand
Patricia Mackay helped to establish modern intensive care management at the Royal Melbourne Hospital through her promotion of emergency concepts for mechanical ventilation in patients with impaired respiration. Mackay has had a long standing interest in anaesthesia safety.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1954Settled in Australia
1954 - 1955Lecturer at the University of Otago, New Zealand
1954 - 1955Junior Anaesthetic Specialist at the Dunedin Hospital, New Zealand
1955 - 1958Assistant Director of Anaesthetics at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
1956Civil Consultant to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)
1956 - 1962Secretary of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists
1958Director of Footscray and District Hospital
1965 - Senior Sessional Anaesthetist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
1965Acting Director of Anaesthetics at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
1966 - 1968President of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists
1977 - 1978Associate Director of Anaesthetics at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
1984 - 1991Chairman of the Department of Anaesthetics at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
1990 - Member of the Board of Management of the Mansfield Hospital
1991Chairman of the Victorian Consulting Council on Anaesthetic Mortality and Morbidity
1992 - Consultant Anaesthetist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
1999Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Medalist
2001AMA Woman in Medicine Award received from the Australian Medical Association (AMA)

 

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