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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-06-12 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002037b.htm person Sewell Sidney Valentine AACR2 14 February 1880 13 March 1949 Place of Birth Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Berwick, Victoria, Australia Physician Sir Sidney Sewell worked for a short period as a neurologist and assistant pathologist at St Vincent's Hospital, then took up the post of physician to out-patients at (Royal) Melbourne Hospital (c.1911). He also lectured in neurology at the University of Melbourne and ran a private medical practice in Melbourne. During the early 1920s, Sewell visited the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest in Brompton, London, to learn the technique of artificial pneumothorax, and to the United States of America to study the management of tuberculosis. Upon returning to Victoria and after much effort and criticism he managed to establish a State tuberculosis service in Victoria. In 1930 Sewell co-founded the Association of Physicians of Australasia which was the forerunner of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Sir Sidney Sewell was knighted in 1945 for his services to the medical profession. 1905 1905 Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Melbourne c. 1906 c. 1906 Career position - Senior Resident Medical Officer at Melbourne Hospital c. 1907 c. 1907 Career position - Acting Lectureship in Pathology, University of Melbourne 1908 1910 Career position - Clinical studies and practice in England and Germany 1910 Career position - Private medical practice established in Collins Street, Melbourne 1910 1910 Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Melbourne 1930 1938 Career position - Foundation Member, Association of Physicians of Australasia 1938 1940 Career position - Vice-President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians 1939 Career position - Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London 1939 1939 Career position - Retired from the Royal Melbourne Hospital but remained on as a consulting physician 1940 1942 Career position - President, Royal Australasian College of Physicians 1945 1945 Award - Knighted (Kt) Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) (1938 - )

President 1940 - 1942

 Association of Physicians of Australasia (1930 - 1938)

Foundation Member 1930 - 1938

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 Sewell, Sidney Valentine (1880-1949)

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 'Sewell, Sidney Valentine', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Sewell, Sidney Valentine Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Obituary: Sidney Valentine Sewell White, E. Rowden Obituary: Sidney Valentine Sewell 1949 Medical Journal of Australia 1949 1 666-8 Book: Roll of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians McDonald, G. L. Roll of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Sydney Royal Australasian College of Physicians 1988-1994