The Australian Women's Register

Summary

Born in Armadale, Victoria, in 1910, Margaret Alison Mackie was educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College in East Melbourne. She later received her Bachelor of Medicine and a Diploma in Gynaecology and Obstetrics from Melbourne University before embarking on an impressive career in obstetrics and gynaecology. She later became a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and a Fellow of the Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1975.

Events

• 1937

  Resident Medical Officer, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

• 1938

  Registrar, Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne

• 1939 - 1940

  Resident Medical Officer, Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne

• 1940 - 1945

  First woman medical superintendent, Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne

• 1948

  Vera Scantlebury Brown Memorial Travelling Scholarship

• 1948

  Honorary outpatient gynaecologist, Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne

• 1949 - 1959

  Honorary outpatient obstetrician, Royal Women’s Hospital and Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne

• 1949 - 1970

  Honorary inpatient obstetrician, Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne

• 1936

  Resident Medical Officer, Royal Melbourne Hospital