Biographical entry Greig, Janet Lindsay (1874 - 1950)

Summary

Janet Greig was one of the founders of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and one of the first woman anaesthetists in Victoria. She was an anaesthetist with various Melbourne hospitals including the Melbourne, Women's and Queen Victoria Hospitals.

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Events

1889

Life event - Migrated to Victoria with family

1895

Education - MB, University of Melbourne

1896

Education - ChB, University of Melbourne

1897 - 1899?

Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Women’s Hospital, Melbourne

1897 - 1915

Career position - In private practice in Fitzroy, Career position - in private practice in Fitzroy, Victoria

1899 - 1939

Career position - Honorary Physician, Presbyterian and Scots Church Children’s Aid Society

1899 - 1948

Career position - Co-founder and Honorary Physician, Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne

1900 - 1917

Career position - Honorary Anaesthetist, Women’s Hospital, Melbourne

1902 - 1905

Career position - Honorary Anaesthetist, Melbourne Hospital

1915 - 1918

Career position - Honorary Physician to Outpatients, Children’s Hospital, Carlton

1915 - 1948

Career position - Consultant physician in Collins St

1940

Career position - Member, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

1948

Life event - Retired

Related entries

Archival resources

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

• Janet Lindsay Greig - Records; Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

• McDonald, G. L., Roll of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Sydney, 1988, 332 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Campbell, Ruth, 'Janet Lindsay Greig (1874-1950), Medical Practitioner', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 101-103. Details
• Campbell, Ruth; Barton Hack, J., 'Greig, Jane Stocks (Jean) (1872-1939)', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 101-102. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090105b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Wilson, Gwen, 'Janet Lindsay Greig: a Pioneer', Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, vol. 13, no. 4, 1985, pp. 420-428. Details

Online Resources

• 'Greig, Janet Lindsay (1874-1950)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-754063. Details