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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created human Helen Cohn updated 2024-12-17 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005801b.htm person Lindon Leonard Charles Edward Kt AACR2 8 February 1896 28 August 1978 Place of Birth North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Place of Death North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Neurosurgeon Leonard Lindon was the first neurosurgeon appointed to South Australia's main teaching hospital, Royal Adelaide Hospital, and headed it's neurosurgical unit for 20 years. In his early career London practiced as a general surgeon. An extended tour of leading neurosurgical centres in Europe and North America 1929 - 1930 influenced him to specialise in neurosurgery. His concept of a modern neurological unit, including specialised theatre staff and a research component, was not wholly realised, but he laid the foundation for his successor to develop a state-wide, multidisciplinary head injury service. Lindon's principal interests were brain tumours, aneurysms, and head injuries and traumas. He readily adopted innovative techniques such as air ventriculography and encephalography, and was among the first in Australia to obtain X-rays of blood vessels in the brain. Lindon was a pioneer in intervertebral disc protrusion surgery and in 1945 performed Australia's first prefrontal leucotomy. He was active in professional organisations, serving as President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and being a founding Member of the Society of Australasian Neurological Surgeons in 1940. 1915 1916 Career position - Served with the Australian Imperial Forces 1919 1919 Education - MB, University of Adelaide 1920 1922 Award - Rhodes Scholarship, Balliol College, University of Oxford 1922 1922 Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of England 1922 1922 Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1923 1923 Education - MS, University of Adelaide 1925 1931 Career position - Honorary Assistant Surgeon, Adelaide Hospital 1931 1946 Career position - Honorary Surgeon, Royal Adelaide Hospital 1931 1951 Career position - Head of the neurological unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital 1934 1935 Career position - President, South Australian Branch, British Medical Association 1940 1940 Career position - Served with Australian Army Medical Corps 1940 1940 Career position - Founding Member, Society of Australasian Neurological Surgeons 1946 1951 Career position - Honorary Neurosurgeon, Royal Adelaide Hospital 1951 1951 Life event - Retired from Royal Adelaide Hospital 1956 1958 Career position - Vice-President, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 1959 1961 Career position - President, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 1962 1962 Career position - President, Neurosurgical Research Foundation 1964 1964 Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt) - for services to neurosurgery Newland, Henry Simpson (1873 - 1969)

Sir Henry Newland was the brother-in-law of Leonard Lindon

 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) (1927 - )

President 1959-1961

 Neurosurgical Society of Australasia (1940 - )

Founding member 1940

 Adelaide Hospital (1840 - )

Head of the neurological unit 1931 - 1951

 British Medical Association, South Australian Branch (1879 - 1962)

President 1934 - 1935

Wikidata

 Lindon, Leonard Charles Edward (18960208-19780828)

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 'Lindon, Leonard Charles Edward', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Lindon, Leonard Charles Edward Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Neurosurgery in the age of Cushing: the achievement of Leonard Lindon Simpson, Donald Neurosurgery in the age of Cushing: the achievement of Leonard Lindon 2012 ANZ Journal of Surgery 82 311-7 Book Section: Lindon, Sir Leonard Charles (1896-1978), neurosurgeon Fraenkel, G.J. Lindon, Sir Leonard Charles (1896-1978), neurosurgeon Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2000 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie John Ritchie 98-99 Journal Article: Sir Leonard Lindon Anon Sir Leonard Lindon 1979 Medical Journal of Australia 1979 2 141-2 Journal Article: The foundations of neurosurgery in Australian and New Zealand Simpson, D. A.; Jamieson, K. G.; and Morson, S. M. The foundations of neurosurgery in Australian and New Zealand 1974 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 44 3 215-27 Journal Article: The Neurosurgical Society of Australasia: the first forty years Curtis, J. Bryant, Miller, Douglas and Simpson, Donald The Neurosurgical Society of Australasia: the first forty years 1980 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 50 4 434-7