Joyce Daws

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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.

Early life

The Hounslow-born Daws, having been educated at Royal School for Naval and Marine Officers' Daughters, St Paul's Girls' School, received a scholarship to study classics at Cambridge University.{{Citation

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| title =Obituaries: Joyce Daws DBE 1925-2007

| place =Melbourne, Victoria

| publisher =University of Melbourne Medical Society

| periodical =Chiron

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| year =2007

| edition =Spring

| page =29

| url =https://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/2011138/UDS2015372-25.pdf

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| date =7 February 2017

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Career

During the second world war, Daws enrolled to study at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, receiving her MBBS in 1949. In 1952, she was awarded a post-graduate scholarship to study surgery, and she passed the exams to be a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Daws worked at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in the UK until Lorna Verdun Sisely visited the hospital on her trip to gain surgical knowledge of the latest techniques and technology, and to recruited Daws to work at the Queen Victoria Medical Centre.{{Citation

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| title =Obituaries: Lorna Verdun Sisely OBE MB BS 1942, MS 1949, FRACS, FAGS, CM 1916-2004

| place =Melbourne, Victoria

| publisher =University of Melbourne Medical Society

| periodical =Chiron

| volume =5

| issue =2

| year =2004

| edition =June

| page =41

| url =https://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/2011112/UDS2015372-22.pdf

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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)[http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0026b.htm Biodata], womenaustralia.info; accessed 25 July 2017.
Member, Victorian Medical Women's Society

Death

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).{{cite web|url=http://www.science.unimelb.edu.au/downloads/newsletter/SciMatters_070901.pdf|title=Date of death provided|access-date=18 August 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829231025/http://www.science.unimelb.edu.au/downloads/newsletter/SciMatters_070901.pdf|archive-date=29 August 2007}}

Honours

She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 14 June 1975 "for her services to medicine".

Legacy

Dame Joyce Daws Churchill Fellowship Grant

References

External links

[http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004215b.htm University of Melbourne/Bright Sparcs Archival and Heritage]
[http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090411144936/http://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/pdf/NewsletterRFA2008.pdf Royal Free Hospital newsletter (PDF)]

Category:1925 births

Category:2007 deaths

Category:Alumni of the University of London

Category:Australian fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons

Category:Australian women philanthropists

Category:Australian philanthropists

Category:British emigrants to Australia

Category:English women medical doctors

Category:Australian Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Category:Fellows of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

Category:Fellows of the Australian Medical Association

Category:People educated at St Paul's Girls' School