Biographical entry Mackay, Patricia (1926 - )

Summary

Patricia Mackay helped to establish modern intensive care management at the Royal Melbourne Hospital through her promotion of emergency concepts for mechanical ventilation in patients with impaired respiration. Mackay has had a long standing interest in anaesthesia safety.

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Events

1954

Life event - Settled in Australia

1954 - 1955

Career position - Lecturer at the University of Otago, New Zealand

1954 - 1955

Career position - Junior Anaesthetic Specialist at the Dunedin Hospital, New Zealand

1955 - 1958

Career position - Assistant Director of Anaesthetics at the Royal Melbourne Hospital

1956

Career position - Civil Consultant to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)

1956 - 1962

Career position - Secretary of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists

1958

Career position - Director of Footscray and District Hospital

1965 -

Career position - Senior Sessional Anaesthetist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital

1965

Career position - Acting Director of Anaesthetics at the Royal Melbourne Hospital

1966 - 1968

Career position - President of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists

1977 - 1978

Career position - Associate Director of Anaesthetics at the Royal Melbourne Hospital

1984 - 1991

Career position - Chairman of the Department of Anaesthetics at the Royal Melbourne Hospital

1990 -

Career position - Member of the Board of Management of the Mansfield Hospital

1991

Career position - Chairman of the Victorian Consulting Council on Anaesthetic Mortality and Morbidity

1992 -

Career position - Consultant Anaesthetist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital

1999

Award - Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Medalist

2001

Award - AMA Woman in Medicine Award received from the Australian Medical Association (AMA)

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

Online Resources

• 'Mackay, Patricia (1926-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475765. Details

See also

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