Person
Daws, Joyce Margaretta (1925 - 2007)
DBE
- Born
- 21 July 1925
Hounslow, England - Died
- 13 June 2007
Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Thoracic surgeon
Summary
Joyce Daws worked in the area of thoracic surgery at various hospitals for over twenty years. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), 14 June 1975, for her services to medicine.
Details
Chronology
- 1956
- Life event - Settled in Australia
- 1958 - 1967
- Career position - Surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
- 1958 - 1985
- Career position - Assistant Thoracic Surgeon at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital
- 1967 - 1975
- Career position - Assistant Thoracic Surgeon at Prince Henry's Hospital
- 1970 - 1985
- Career position - Assistant Thoracic Surgeon at the Alfred Hospital
- 1974 -
- Career position - Member of the Victorian Nursing Council
- 1974
- Career position - Honorary Secretary of the Victorian Branch Council of the Australian Medical Association (AMA)
- 1974
- Career position - President of the Victorian Medical Women's Society
- 1975
- Award - Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
- 1976
- Career position - President of the Board of the Cancer Institute of Victoria
- 1977 - 1987
- Career position - Board member of the After Care Hospital
- 1978 - 1980
- Career position - Board member of the Cancer Institute of Victoria
- 1980 - 1985
- Career position - President of the After Care Hospital
- 1983 - 1989
- Career position - Chairman of the Victorian Nursing Council
- 1984
- Career position - Chairman of the Academic and Professional Panel
- 1987 - 1996
- Career position - Chairman of the International Protea Association
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Biographical cuttings on Dame Joyce Daws, thoracic surgeon, Cuttings Files BIOG; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Newspaper Articles
- McEwan, Lena and Hacker, Sandra, 'Obituary - Forthright leader broke new professional ground', The Age (2007). Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6297455. Details
- 'Daws, Joyce Margaretta (1925-2007)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-756080. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Daws, Joyce Margaretta (1925- ), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0026b.htm. Details
See also
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 12 February 2003, Last modified: 10 April 2008