June Howqua
{{Short description|Australian medical doctor and cardiologist (1821–2009)}}
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| name = June Howqua
| birth_date = {{birth date|1921|06|04}}
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|06|08|1921|06|04}}
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| education = Melbourne Girls Grammar
| alma_mater = University of Melbourne
| occupation = medical doctor
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June Louise Howqua (4 June 1921 – 8 June 2009){{cite web|url=https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/june-louise-howqua|title=June Louise Howqua |first1=Ian|last1=Webster|first2=Colin|last2=Officer|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|accessdate=21 November 2022}} was an Australian medical doctor who specialised in cardiology and thoracic medicine.
Life and career
Howqua was born in 1921 in Melbourne to Albert Henry Howqua, a financial adviser to the government, and Lillie Eileen (née Currie). Her great-grandfather was Ah Kin How Qua, an interpreter for the Australian government.{{cite web|title=Howqua, June Louise (1921 - 2008)|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE6069b.htm|work=Australian Women's Register|date=31 July 2017|first=Juliet|last=Flesch|accessdate=21 November 2022}} She attended Melbourne Girls Grammar before studying medicine at the University of Melbourne. After graduating in 1944, she began her career at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. In the 1950s, she took a job as a ship doctor as a means to travel to London, where she took up a position at the Brompton Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. She returned to Melbourne in the early 1960s and began working at the Queen Victoria Hospital, a women's hospital where she would eventually establish a specialised coronary care unit.
Howqua worked at the Queen Victoria Hospital for three decades and served as vice president of the hospital's board from 1979 to 1983. She retired from the hospital in 1989, continuing to operate a private practice until 1996. In her retirement, she continued to live in the refurbished boarding house where she ran her practice.{{cite news|url=https://www.theage.com.au/technology/a-tower-of-strength-20060619-ge2jpf.html|title=A tower of strength|date=19 June 2006|work=The Age|accessdate=21 November 2022}}
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Category:Australian cardiologists
Category:Australian pulmonologists
Category:Medical doctors from Melbourne
Category:Melbourne Medical School alumni
Category:20th-century Australian women scientists
Category:20th-century Australian medical doctors