Biographical entry Lloyd-Green, Lorna (1910 - 2002)

Summary

Lorna Lloyd-Green was one of the first female obstetricians and gynaecologists working in Melbourne in the first half of the twentieth century. She was a pioneering woman in Australian medicine. Lloyd-Green was an advocate of equal pay for equal work by females in the medical profession and encouraged training for medical women to give them the skills required when applying for senior positions. Late in life she changed career, becoming a music therapist at the Bethlehem Hospital, where she worked with dying patients.

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Events

1933

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

1934 - 1935

Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Hospital (later known as the Royal Melbourne Hospital)

1935 - 1936

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

1936 - 1937

Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Women's Hospital, Melbourne (later known as the Royal Women's Hospital)

1939 - 1941

Career position - Medical Superintendent at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne

1945 - 1969

Career position - Honorary Gynaecologist at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne

1948

Career position - President of the Victorian Women's Medical Society

1950 - 1954

Career position - Vice-President of the Australian Federation of Medical Women

1951 - 1952

Career position - President of the Victorian Women Graduates Association

1956 - 1958

Career position - President of the Australian Federation of University Women

1958 - 1968

Career position - Vice-President of the Medical Women's International Association

1962 - 1965

Career position - Vice-President of the Australian Federation of Medical Women

1964 - 1965

Career position - Dean of the Clinical School at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne

1968

Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

1968 - 1972

Career position - President of the Medical Women's International Association

1969

Career position - First woman Fellow of the Australian Medical Association (AMA)

1969 - 1985

Career position - Honorary Consultant at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne

1979

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

1989 - c. 1999

Career position - Music Therapist at the Bethlehem Hospital, Victoria

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Lorna Lloyd-Green', Uni News, vol. 12, no. 17, 2003, p. 4. Details

Newspaper Articles

• Wheat, Ken and Lyn and Patterson, Kaye, 'Obituary: Dr Lorna Lloyd-Green, CBE, OBE', The Age, 10 July 2002. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Lloyd-Green, Lorna', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-756071. Details

See also

• Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's Who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2001, 2020 pp. Details