P004148 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2003-01-23 human Helen Morgan and Rosemary Francis updated 2025-10-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004148b.htm person Mackenzie Helen Pearl MBE AACR2 6 October 1913 18 September 2009 Place of Birth Fusanchin, Korea Place of Death Kew, Victoria, Australia Physician Missionary Helen Pearl MacKenzie, a child of Presbyterian missionaries, completed her medical degree at the University of Melbourne in 1938. She was at the Queen Victoria Hospital 1940-1944, where she went 'realising the need for a woman doctor to learn something of women's problems'. She later worked as Superintendent of the Australian Presbyterian Mission Hospital in Pusan Korea from 1952-1975, where her sister, Catherine Mackenzie, was matron. Both sisters were appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1962 in recognition of their devoted services to medicine and nursing. In 1944 both sisters began learning Chinese and Helen got permission from wartime authorities to leave the Queen Victoria Hospital to gain experience in a general practice. They arrived in China in early 1946, working under the aegis of the Red Cross, also working in a language school and continuing their medical work up to June 1950, seven months after the Communists took control. They returned to Korea in 1952, where Helen established the Il Sin Women's Hospital, training doctors in obstetrics and nurses in midwifery. This hospital now delivers over 10,000 babies a year. In October 2002, she was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Mackenzie, Catherine Margaret (1915 - )

Mackenzie, Helen Pearl (1913-), Biographical Entry

 Mackenzie, Helen (1913-)

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 'Mackenzie, Helen Pearl', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Mackenzie, Helen Pearl Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Newspaper Article: Ministered to body and soul - Helen Pearl Mackenzie MBE Lane, L.; and Martin, B. Ministered to body and soul - Helen Pearl Mackenzie MBE 2009 The Age Book: Mackenzie, Man of Mission: a Biography of James Noble Mackenzie Mackenzie, Helen Mackenzie, Man of Mission: a Biography of James Noble Mackenzie South Melbourne Hyland House 1995