• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: IMP0076

Mackie, Margaret Alison

(1910 – 1991)
  • Nationality Australian
  • Born 6 November, 1910, Armadale Victoria Australia
  • Died 31 December, 1991
  • Occupation Gynaecologist, Obstetrician

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 - 1937

    Resident Medical Officer, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

  • 1938 - 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 - 1948

    Vera Scantlebury Brown Memorial Travelling Scholarship

  • 1948 - 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 - 1936

    Resident Medical Officer, Royal Melbourne Hospital

Published resources

Archival resources

  • Australian Dictionary of Biography
    • Margaret Mackie