Biographical entry Macnamara, Annie Jean (1899 - 1968)

Summary

Dame Annie Jean Macnamara (later Connor) was a physician at the Children's Hospital Melbourne from 1923, a consultant and medical officer to the Poliomyelitis Committee of Victoria 1925-31, and the Medical Officer, Yooralla Hospital School for Crippled Children 1928-51.

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Events

1922

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne

1922 - 1923

Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Hospital

1923 - 1928

Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne

1925 - ?

Career position - Entered private practice

1925

Career position - Doctor of Medicine (MD) received from the University of Melbourne

1925 - 1931

Career position - Consultant in Infantile paralysis to the Poliomyelitis Committee of Victoria

1928 - ?

Career position - Honorary Medical Officer in the Physiotherapy Department at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne

1928 - 1951

Career position - Honorary Medical Officer at the Yooralla Hospital for Crippled Children

1930 - 1931

Career position - Honorary Advisor on polio to official authorities in New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania

1931 - 1933

Career position - Travelled to England and North America on a Rockefeller Fellowship

1933 - 1937

Career position - Worked at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (part-time)

1935

Award - Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

1937 - 1942

Career position - Member of the Consultative Council for Polio

1946 - 1947

Career position - Member of the Consultative Council for Polio

1966

Career position - Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD (Hon)) received from the University of Melbourne

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Annie Jean Macnamara - Records, 1920 - 1968, MS 2399; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Articles

• Sherratt, Tim, No Standing Back: Dame Jean Macnamara, Australasian Science, vol. Summer, 1993. Also available at http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_macna.htm. Details

Books

• Zwar, Desmond, The Dame: the life and times of Dame Jean Macnamara, medical pioneer, Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1984. Details

Book Sections

• Smith, Ann G., 'Macnamara, Dame Annie Jean (1899-1968), Medical Scientist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 10, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1986, pp. 345-347. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100337b.htm. Details
• Smith, Ann G., 'Jean Macnamara (1899-1968) medical scientist', in Heather Radi (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press Inc, Sydney, 1988. Details

Online Resources

• 'Macnamara, Annie Jean (1899-1968), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2002, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0063b.htm. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Macnamara, Annie Jean', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-743084. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P001288. Details
• Alexander, John A. (ed.), Who's Who in Australia 1944, vol. 12, The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, Melbourne, 1944, 906 pp. Details
• French, E. L. and Stewart, D.F., 'Lionel Bately Bull, 1889-1978', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 5, no. 4, 1983, pp. 90-110. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9830540090.htm. Details