The Australian Women's Register

Summary

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

• 1950 - 1954

  Vice-President of the Australian Federation Medical Women

• 1958 - 1962

  President of Australian Federation Medical Women

• 1969 - 1969

  Fellow of the Australian Medical Association

• 1962 - 1965

  Vice-President of the Australian Federation Medical Women

• 1969 - 1985

  Honourary Consultant, Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital

• 1964 - 1965

  Dean of the Clinical School at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne

• 1945 - 1969

  Honourary Gynaecologist Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital

• 1939 - 1941

  Medical Superintendent of the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne

• 1936 - 1937

  Resident Medical Officer of the Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne

• 1989 - 2002

  Music therapist at the Bethlehem Hospital, Victoria

• 1956 - 1958

  President of the Australian Federation of University Women

• 1951 - 1952

  President of the Victorian Women Graduates Association

• 1948 - 1948

  President of the Victoria Medical Women’s Society

• 1968 - 1972

  President of the Medical Women’s International Association

• 1958 - 1968

  Vice-President of the Medical Women’s International Association

• 1970 - 1970

  Chairman, Medical Women’s International Association Congress, Melbourne

• 2001 - 2001

  Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women

• 1935 - 1936

  Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

• 1934 - 1935

  Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital

• 1972 - 1972

  Awarded Member of Honour from the Medical Women’s International Association