Person
Mackay, Patricia (1926 - )
- Born
- 18 August 1926
New Zealand - Occupation
- Anaesthetist
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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Chronology
- 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 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
Journal Articles
- Anderson, Warwick and Hunter, Cecily, ''Wars have an overflow on everything': Interview with Ian R, MacKay and Patricia MacKay', Health and History, 15 (1) (2013), 104-17. Details
Resources
- 'Mackay, Patricia (1926-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475765. Details
See also
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 4 March 2003, Last modified: 28 April 2003