Lloyd-Green, Lorna (1910 - 2002)

Dr Lorna Lloyd-Green founded the sterility clinic at the Queen Victoria Hospital (Melbourne) which became the infertility clinic and later the IVF Clinic at Queen Victoria Monash. Lloyd-Green ran the clinic for 25 years. She was also the first medical adviser to the Nursing Mothers Association (now Australian Breastfeeding Association). She was the first woman fellow of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), and foundation fellow of the Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; she was a senior member and president of the Australian Federation of Medical Women and president of Medical Women's International Association, hosting a world conference in Melbourne in 1970, the year in which she was named Woman of the Year. Lloyd-Green was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 16 June 1979 and Officer (Civil) on 1 January 1968 for services to medicine as a doctor.

Events

1934 - 1935	Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
1935 - 1936	Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
1936 - 1937	Resident Medical Officer of the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne
1939 - 1941	Medical Superintendent of the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne
1945 - 1969	Honourary Gynaecologist Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital
1948	President of the Victoria Medical Women's Society
1950 - 1954	Vice-President of the Australian Federation Medical Women
1951 - 1952	President of the Victorian Women Graduates Association
1956 - 1958	President of the Australian Federation of University Women
1958 - 1962	President of Australian Federation Medical Women
1958 - 1968	Vice-President of the Medical Women's International Association
1962 - 1965	Vice-President of the Australian Federation Medical Women
1964 - 1965	Dean of the Clinical School at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne
1968 - 1972	President of the Medical Women's International Association
1969	Fellow of the Australian Medical Association
1969 - 1985	Honourary Consultant, Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital
1970	Chairman, Medical Women's International Association Congress, Melbourne
1972	Awarded Member of Honour from the Medical Women's International Association
1989 - 2002	Music therapist at the Bethlehem Hospital, Victoria

Membership

• Lyceum Club (Melbourne) (1912 - )

Related Corporate Bodies

• Queen Victoria Hospital (1896 - 1977)

  Honorary Consultant, Dean Clinical School, Honorary Gynaecologist, Medical Superintendent

  [1939 - 1985]

Newspaper Articles

• 'Modern medico a pioneer in her profession', The Age, 10 July, p. 11. [ Details... ]
• Hudson, Susan, 'Humanity brought to delivery', Australian, 27 August, p. 12. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

• Zonta Club of Melbourne, 'Obituary - Dr Lorna Lloyd-Green CBE 1979, OBE 1968, MBBS, DGO, FRCOG, FRACOG, FAMA, RMT 4 February 1910 – 24 June 2002', in Projects, 2002, http://home.vicnet.net.au/~zontamel/lorna.htm. [ Details... ]

See also

• Victorian Women's Roll of Honour: Women Shaping the Nation, 1 edn, Centurary of Federation Victoria, 2001, http://www.women.vic.gov.au/CA25666E00000B30/Images/CoFHR/$File/CoFHR.pdf. [ Details... ]
• 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... ]
• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories : brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Department of History, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2003, 168 pp. [ Details... ]
• Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2002, 2020 pp. [ Details... ]