• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE0317

Sisely, Lorna Verdun

  • OBE, MB, BS, MS (Melb), FRACS, FACS, CM
(1916 – 2004)
  • Born 14 March, 1916, Wangaratta Victoria Australia
  • Died 27 January, 2004, Victoria Australia
  • Occupation Surgeon

Summary

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 - 1981

    Surgeon and member of the senior staff with the Queen Victoria Medical Centre

  • 1964 - 1981

    Member of the Anti-Cancer Council

  • 1949

    Winner of the Gordon Craig Scholarship in Surgery

  • 1947 - 1949

    Honourary Assistant Surgeon at the Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

  • 1947 - 1949

    Demonstrator with the Department of Anatomy and Pathology at the University of Melbourne

  • 1981

    Consultant Surgeon at the Monash Medical Centre

  • 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

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  • Membership
    • Lyceum Club (Melbourne) (1912 - )
  • Member
    • Cancer Council Victoria (1936 - )
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    • Methodist Ladies' College (MLC), Melbourne (1882 - )