Ethel Byrne (medical doctor)

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Ethel Byrne with Matthew John Stewart, former professor at the University of Leeds (center), and doctors from the Joint Coal Board discussing silicosis , 1951 in Newcastle

Ethel Byrne (born August 28, 1895 in Cookardinia , New South Wales , † November 5, 1957 in Newcastle , New South Wales) was an Australian doctor and pathologist.

Life

Ethel Byrne was the ninth child of the Australian teacher James Byrne and Margaret, b. Crennan. She attended West Maitland Girls' High School. At the University of Sydney she received a Bachelor of Medicine and in 1919 a Master of Surgery.

Byrne began her medical career as a junior resident medical officer at Royal Newcastle Hospital. During the flu pandemic in 1919 and the outbreak of tuberculosis the following year, she was the only doctor there with this level of training. From 1920 to 1928, Byrne was Resident Pathologist at Newcastle Hospital and worked as a consultant for the hospital thereafter. At the same time she had a private practice in Newcastle and supervised pathology at clinics in Cessnock , Kurri and Maitland . In the early 1930s she was involved in combating epidemics of polio and diphtheria . She ran the anti-tuberculosis drug dispensary for the Department of Health on King Street.

In 1943, Byrne was elected a member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She was also a member of the British Medical Association .

In 1947, Newcastle Hospital's Lung Clinic opened at Rankin Park and Byrne took up a position as Staff Physician and Tuberculosis Officer . She led the construction of the Byrne House, named after her, a facility for male tuberculosis patients.

In the last years of her life, she went on study trips to Canada, the USA and Europe, financially supported by the clinic commission. In 1957 she died at the Royal Newcastle Hospital.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photo report in The Newcastle Sun, May 16, 1951.
  2. ↑ Byrne, Ethel In: Australian Dictionary of Biography .
  3. ^ Errol G. Knox: Byrne, Ethel In: Medical Directory for Australia 1935. Sydney 1935.
personal data
SURNAME Byrne, Ethel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian doctor and pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Cookardinia , New South Wales
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1957
Place of death Newcastle , New South Wales