Biographical entry Campbell, Kate Isabel (1899 - 1986)

Summary

Kate Campbell discovered that blindness in premature babies was caused by an overdose of oxygen, resulting in the adjustment of the treatment of premature babies world-wide.

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Events

1922

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

1924

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

1924? - 1927

Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Children's and Women's Hospitals

1926 - 1965

Career position - Honorary Paediatrician at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne

1927? - 1937

Career position - General medical practice

1929 - 1965

Career position - Lecturer in Neo-Natal Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne

1949 - 1965

Career position - Honorary Paediatrician at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne

1954

Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

1965 - 1986?

Career position - Consultant Paediatrician at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne

1966

Education - Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) received from the University of Melbourne

1971

Career position - Associate of the Department of Paediatrics at Monash University

1971

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

1979

Career position - Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne

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

• Murray, James, Lifework: Heroes of Australian Health, Focus Publishing for [Medical Benefits Fund of Australia Ltd], Edgecliff, NSW, 1997, 160 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Campbell, Kate, 'A Medical Life: an Interview with Dame Kate Campbell', in Patricia Grimshaw and Lynne Strahan (eds), The Half-open Door: Sixteen Modern Australian Women Look at Life and Achievement, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1982. Details
• Grimshaw, Patricia, 'Kate Campbell (1899-1986) paediatrician', in Heather Radi (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press Inc, Sydney, 1988. Details
• McCalman, Janet, 'Campbell, Dame Kate Isabel (1899-1986), Paediatrician', in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 17, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2007, pp. 185-186. Details

Journal Articles

• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Kate Isabel Campbell', Uni News, vol. 12, no. 11, 2003, p. 4. Details

Online Resources

• 'Campbell, Kate Isabel (1899-1986), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2002, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0018b.htm. Details
• 'Campbell, Kate Isabel (1899-1986)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-775072. Details

See also

• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Department of History, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2003, 168 pp. Details