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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2013-05-02 human Tom Hyde updated 2024-10-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005394b.htm person Bradley Claudia Portia Burton MBE AACR2 28 November 1909 5 October 1967 Place of Birth Richmond, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Cremorne, New South Wales, Australia Orthopaedist Claudia Burton-Bradley was diagnosed with diabetes when she was 11 and was among one of the first diabetics in he world to receive insulin. She studied pharmacy and arts at the University of Sydney from 1928-1943. She was apprenticed to a pharmacist in King Street and qualified as a pharmacist in 1930. She worked at the Western Suburbs Hospital in 1933-1938. Burton-Bradley was a resident medical officer at the Royal North Shore Hospital in 1944 and appointed first medical director in 1945. She became honorary clinical assistant in physiotherapy at Royal North Shore Hospital in 1946 and honorary orthopaedic surgeon to the Rachel Forster Hospital. Her research focused on cerebral palsy in Australia and she published major articles that dealt with aspects of the disease in children, seeking to promote the potential of cerebral palsy sufferers to lead useful and independent lives. She formed the Australian Cerebral Palsy Association in 1952 and chaired its medical and educational committee.

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 Bradley, Claudia Portia Burton- (19091128-19671005)

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 'Bradley, Claudia Portia Burton', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Bradley, Claudia Portia Burton Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Bradley, Claudia Portia Burton (1909-1967), orthopaedist O'Brien, Anne Bradley, Claudia Portia Burton (1909-1967), orthopaedist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1993 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De John Ritchie 243-244