The Australian Women's Register

Summary

Lorna Sisely, born in 1916 in Wangaratta, was educated at Wangaratta High School, Methodist Ladies College (Melb.) and Janet Clarke Hall University of Melbourne. She was a junior then senior Resident Medical Officer (RMO) at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne from 1942 until 1944. Later Sisely was founder and consultant surgeon at the Monash Medical Centre Breast Clinic. Among her other activities she was a member of the Anti-Cancer Council 1964 – 1981. On 14 June 1980 Lorna Sisely was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her service to medicine.

[NB: the above biography was researched and written by Philida Sturgiss-Hoy for Women’s History Month 2003]

Events

• 1942 - 1944

  Junior and Senior Resident Medical Officer at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne

• 1947 - 1981

  Surgeon and member of the senior staff with the Queen Victoria Medical Centre

• 1964 - 1981

  Member of the Anti-Cancer Council

• 1949

  Winner of the Gordon Craig Scholarship in Surgery

• 1947 - 1949

  Honourary Assistant Surgeon at the Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

• 1947 - 1949

  Demonstrator with the Department of Anatomy and Pathology at the University of Melbourne

• 1981

  Consultant Surgeon at the Monash Medical Centre

• 1979

  Founder and Consultant Surgeon of the Breast Clinic Monash Monash Medical Centre

• 1980 - 1981

  Dean of the Clinical School at the Queen Victoria Medical Centre Monash University