Person

Rundle, Francis Felix (1910 - 1993)

Born
13 April 1910
New South Wales, Australia
Died
17 December 1993
Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Medical scientist and Surgeon

Summary

Francis Rundle had a varied career after completing his medical studies in the United Kingdom, holding positions in several London hospitals, serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps, and receiving a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for study in the United States. During this period his research included the use of extensive infiltration anaesthesia in wound management. He returned to Sydney in 1949, establishing a private practice specialising in thyroid conditions. In 1959 Rundle was appointed foundation Professor of Surgery at the University of New South Wales. For 14 years he was also Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Relations with colleagues were sometimes fraught, a dispute over pass standards prompting the resignation of Paul Korner and Ian Darian-Smith, Professors of Physiology. In 1973 Rundle became Director of the University's WHO Regional Teacher Training Centre, which focussed on postgraduate training of medical and paramedical personnel from the Pacific and South-East Asia. The Rundle curve refers to a graph that depicts temporal fluctuations in the severity of the ocular pathology in thyroid disease.

Details

Chronology

1931
Education - BSc, University of Sydney
1933
Education - MB BS, University of Sydney
1933 - 1934
Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
1934
Life event - Travelled to England
1935
Education - Licentiate, Royal college of Physicians, United Kingdom
1935
Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, United Kingdom
1935 - 1940
Career position - Clinical and tutoring appointments at London hospitals, including Guy's Hospital and Westminster Hospital
1939 - 1944
Career position - Attached to Emergency Medical Service
1941
Education - MD, University of Sydney
1944 - 1945
Career position - Served with the Royal Army Medical Corps
1947 - 1948
Career position - Rockefeller Foundation fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and Stanford Medical Center, California, U.S.A.
1948 - 1949
Career position - Assistant director of the surgical professorial unit, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London
1949 - 1959
Career position - In private practice as a thyroid specialist, Sydney
1959 - 1975
Career position - Foundation Professor of Surgery, University of New South Wales
1960 - 1973
Career position - Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales
1973 - 1975
Career position - Director, WHO Regional Teacher Training Centre, University of New South Wales
1984
Award - Honorary Doctorate of Medicine, University of New South Wales

Related Corporate Bodies

Archival resources

University of New South Wales Archives

  • Francis Felix Rundle - Records, 1930 - 1984, CN 100 and others; University of New South Wales Archives. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Bartley, G. B., 'Rundle and his curve', Archives of Ophthalmology, 129 (2011), 356-8. Details
  • Tracy, G. D., 'Francis Felix Rundle', Medical journal of Australia, 161 (1994), 27. Details

Resources

Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn

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