Joyce Daws
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Dr Dame Joyce Margaretta Daws DBE FRCS FRACS FAMA (21 July 1925 – 13 June 2007) was an Australian-based British doctor who specialised in thoracic surgery at various hospitals for over twenty years, primarily in Melbourne. She held the post of Consultant Surgeon of Melbourne.
Education
The Hounslow-born Daws settled in Australia in 1956, having been educated at Royal School for Naval and Marine Officers' Daughters, St Paul's Girls' School, the Royal Free Hospital and University of London.[citation needed]
Selected affiliations
- Member, Victorian Nursing Council (1974-2007)
- President of the Cancer Institute of Victoria (and board member; 1978–80)
- Chairman, Victorian Nursing Council (1983–89)
- Chairman, International Protea Association (1987–96)[1]
- Member, Victorian Medical Women's Society
Death
Dr Dame Joyce Daws died in Victoria on 13 June 2007, aged 81, from undisclosed causes and left $10,000 to the Nurses Board of Victoria (NBV).[2]
Honours
She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 14 June 1975 "for her services to medicine".[1]
Legacy
- Dame Joyce Daws Churchill Fellowship Grant
References
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- 1925 births
- 2007 deaths
- Alumni of the University of London
- Australian Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons
- Australian women philanthropists
- Australian surgeons
- Australian people of English descent
- British surgeons
- British philanthropists
- English women medical doctors
- Australian Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Fellows of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- Fellows of the Australian Medical Association
- People educated at St Paul's Girls' School
- People from Hounslow
- Medical doctors from Melbourne
- 20th-century philanthropists