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Sisely, Lorna Verdun (1916 - 2004)OBE, FRACS |
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| Born: 14 March 1916 Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia. Died: 27 January 2004 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. | |
| Lorna Verdun Sisely was only the second person in Australia to receive a fellowship for the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (FRACS). After starting a science degree at the University of Melbourne, she switched medicine in 1937 and won top awards throughout her studies. Sisely’s first position was as a Resident at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne where she became assistant to the senior surgeon. In 1947 she moved to the Queen Victoria Hospital and also took up the post of Anatomy Demonstrator at the University of Melbourne where she completed her Master of Surgery there. Sisely was the first female to win the A. Gordon Craig Travelling Scholarship which she used to study female urology and surgery overseas. Upon returning to Australia she became Senior Surgeon at the Queen Victoria Hospital – a position she held for thirty four years – and in 1980 established the hospital’s first breast clinic. |
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