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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2003-03-05 human Ailie Smith and Annette Alafaci updated 2026-03-10 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004356b.htm person Sisely Lorna Verdun OBE FRACS AACR2 14 March 1916 27 January 2004 Place of Birth Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Surgeon Lorna Sisely was only the second person in Australia to receive a fellowship for the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (FRACS). After starting a science degree at the University of Melbourne, she switched medicine in 1937 and won top awards throughout her studies. Sisely's first position was as a Resident at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne where she became assistant to the senior surgeon. In 1947 she moved to the Queen Victoria Hospital and also took up the post of Anatomy Demonstrator at the University of Melbourne where she completed her Master of Surgery there. Sisely was the first female to win the A. Gordon Craig Travelling Scholarship which she used to study female urology and surgery overseas. Upon returning to Australia she became Senior Surgeon at the Queen Victoria Hospital - a position she held for thirty four years - and in 1980 established the hospital's first breast clinic. 1942 1944 Career position - Junior Resident Medical Officer and Senior Resident Medical Officer at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne 1947 1949 Career position - Demonstrator in the Department of Anatomy and Pathology, University of Melbourne 1947 1949 Career position - Honorary Assistant Surgeon at the Children's Hospital, Victoria 1947 1981 Career position - Surgeon Senior Staff at the Queen Victoria Medical Centre (previously the Queen Victoria Hospital), Victoria 1949 1949 Award - Gordon Craig Scholarship in Surgery 1962 Career position - Member of the American College of Surgeons 1964 1981 Career position - Member of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria 1979 1979 Career position - Founder and Consultant Surgeon in the Breast Clinic at Monash Medical Centre, Victoria 1980 1980 Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 1980 1981 Career position - Dean of the Clinical School in the Queen Victoria Medical Centre, Monash University, Victoria 1981 Career position - Consultant Surgeon at the Monash Medical Centre, Victoria Sisely, Lorna Verdun (1916-2004)

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 'Sisely, Lorna Verdun', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Sisely, Lorna Verdun Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Edited Book: Who's who in Australia 2001 Herd, Margaret Who's who in Australia 2001 38 Melbourne Crown Content 2001