Sisely, Lorna Verdun (1916 - 2004)

Lorna Sisely, born in 1916 in Wangaratta, was educated at Wangaratta High School, Methodist Ladies College (Melb.) and Janet Clarke Hall University of Melbourne. She was a junior then senior Resident Medical Officer (RMO) at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne from 1942 until 1944. Later Sisely was founder and consultant surgeon at the Monash Medical Centre Breast Clinic. Among her other activities she was a member of the Anti-Cancer Council 1964 - 1981. On 14 June 1980 Lorna Sisely was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her service to medicine.

[NB: the above biography was researched and written by Philida Sturgiss-Hoy for Women's History Month 2003]

Events

1942 - 1944	Junior and Senior Resident Medical Officer at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne
1947 - 1949	Demonstrator with the Department of Anatomy and Pathology at the University of Melbourne
1947 - 1949	Honourary Assistant Surgeon at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
1947 - 1981	Surgeon and member of the senior staff with the Queen Victoria Medical Centre
1949	Winner of the Gordon Craig Scholarship in Surgery
1964 - 1981	Member of the Anti-Cancer Council
1979	Founder and Consultant Surgeon of the Breast Clinic Monash Monash Medical Centre
1980 - 1981	Dean of the Clinical School at the Queen Victoria Medical Centre Monash University
1981	Consultant Surgeon at the Monash Medical Centre

Membership

• Lyceum Club (Melbourne) (1912 - )

Newspaper Articles

• Callander, John; Hart, Stewart and Collins, Peter, 'Surgeon championed women in medicine', Herald Sun, Obituaries, 1 March 2004, p. 69. [ Details... ]
• Hudson, Susan, 'Pioneering woman surgeon who always shone', The Age, Obituaries, 6 March 2004, p. 23. [ Details... ]

See also

• Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 'Where are the Women in Australian science?', 22 August 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html. [ Details... ]
• Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2002, 2020 pp. [ Details... ]
• Lofthouse, Andrea (ed.), Who's who of Australian women, Methuen Australia, North Ryde (NSW), 1982, 504 pp. [ Details... ]