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Melbourne Medical School Chiron 2011 CHIRON Melbourne Medical School | twenty eleven chiron Contents twenty11 Contents Looking back to find the Future From the students 01 From the head of the Melbourne Medical School 14 Stories from our students 150th Anniversary Celebrations Alumni Stories 02 Activities celebrating our 150th Anniversary 18 Events, pictures and stories from the present and the past An Australian Legend Obituaries 04 Tom Wills and a tale of two doctors 22 Tributes and memories Mary's Christmas Album Reunions 08 A glimpse into the lives of four women graduates 30 Reports and plans Melbourne Medical School In Brief 10 News, events, appointments 33 Congratulations, student prizes & awards, books New Melbourne MD Launch From our Collection 13 Highlights from the first year 36 A new acquisition: Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi Front: Lithograph of founder of the Melbourne Medical School, The editor would like to thank ISSN 0814-3978 Anthony Colling Brownless, by TH Maguire, 1850. Darren Rath for designing this issue and John Bedovian for his © THE UNIVERSITY OF Erratum: The back cover of Chiron, 2010 erroneously attributed production assistance. MELBOURNE 2011 the Chiron drawing to Maggie Mackie. This heraldic image was commissioned by founding editor Peter Jones, for use on T: (61 3) 8344 5888 commemorative items. Maggie then traced the essential elements E: [email protected] of the image into the strong design we have now incorporated onto the commemorative ties and scarves being produced for the 150th Designed by Darren Rath® anniversary of the Melbourne Medical School. Chiron is published by the Melbourne Medical School. Contributions from staff, students and alumni are welcome. Enquiries and correspondence should be sent to the editor, Liz A Brentnall, Advancement and Communications Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, 4th Floor, 766 Elizabeth Street, The University of Melbourne, 3010, Australia. Looking back to find the Future On the threshold of our 150th anniversary performance, and was among the 330 students it is timely to reflect on the proud history of welcomed this year into the first cohort of our our Medical School. The determination and new MD. foresight of our founders were remarkable, particularly considering our very humble As described by driving force behind the new beginnings, with inaugural lectures given to MD curriculum, alumnus Geoff McColl, our first three students by a secondary school the course began with an auspicious launch chemistry teacher in his own laboratory. as our students were introduced to the This first lecturer, John Macadam, was a human challenges we face as clinicians and medical graduate (MD) of the University of welcomed as junior colleagues in medicine. Glasgow and is described by Greg de Moore All students register with the Medical Board in this issue as a wonderful polymath. It of Australia (chaired by alumna Joanna is noteworthy that in 1857, Macadam was Flynn), are vaccinated, and undergo police admitted to the degree of MD (ad eundum and working-with-children checks – early gradum) at the University of Melbourne – five reminders of their significant professional years before he taught our first students and responsibilities. Final year medical student only eight years before his untimely death at Tamara Vu, an entrant in the 2011 Peter 38. Another University of Glasgow medical Jones Elective Essay Prize competition, has graduate, James Jamieson, is also remembered written an insightful comment on learning in this edition, on the 100th anniversary of about the responsibilities inherent in medical the prize in clinical medicine named in his practice and how to deal with its complexity memory. The commencement of honorary and uncertainty. admission of doctors to our medical degree is This portrait of Jim Best, by Vincent Vantauzzo, was not what we celebrate next year, however, but The acknowledgement of our 150th unveiled at the St Vincent's Hospital Department of the origin of medical education in Australia anniversary by the Friends of the Baillieu, Medicine in July 2011, joining a series of studies of past itself, encapsulated in our byline: ‘Making through their purchase of Mattioli’s Discorsi, departmental leaders dating back to 1957. doctors since 1862’. is symbolic of our heritage in the study of medicine and underscores our celebration’s University is one of many joint projects with Our anniversary is also an opportunity resonance throughout the University. our partners. This esteemed reputation, built to reflect on the many great and small through the deeds of our academic staff, consequences arising out of the lives lived by From humble beginnings, the University has our partners and our alumni, enables us to our graduates. Mary Lane and her colleagues moved to its current international rank of 14 recruit outstanding people from Australia and from the class of 1915 inspire us through in Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health, as rated across the world, some of whom, as usual, are their lives, well lived in the service of others, by the Times Higher Education Supplement. highlighted in these pages. anchored to the present by their personal While not wanting to put too much emphasis generosities, just as Kim Yeoh and Jenny Hayes on these university league tables, it is worth I trust you will enjoy reading this edition illustrate the meaning so many of our students reflecting on the University’s motto, Postera of Chiron, named after the oldest and and alumni discover while working the world Crescam Laude, translated as ‘I will grow in the wisest of the centaurs, a great teacher and over in places that lack our resources. esteem of future generations’, and considering mentor to Asclepios. It was Peter Jones who how this has been achieved. Without doubt, commissioned the image of Chiron that we Mindful that this anniversary is but a our medical graduates’ achievements, in are using increasingly as the symbol for the milestone on a continuing journey, our Australia and internationally, have been University of Melbourne Medical Alumni current students, the embodiment of our prodigious, as have the teaching and research Society. My best wishes to all our alumni at future, will participate very actively in the of our academic staff. Our relationships with year’s end, I hope it affords everyone some events of 2012, as described by Melissa Lee, teaching hospitals and affiliated research time to relax in the company of family and who leads our Med150 student ambassadors. institutes are also of utmost importance to our friends. I also hope you will join us next year Sitting alongside this initiative will be the reputation and performance. to celebrate this major milestone in the history inclusion of the stalwart tradition, Med of your Medical School. Medleys, in our 150th Anniversary program. We continue to strengthen and expand these Plans for a special performance of this partnerships and the opening at Sunshine James D Best, MBBS 1972, MD 1989 irreverent revue, are described by Yiannis Hospital of a shared teaching and research Head, Melbourne Medical School Efstathiadis, who starred this year’s Medleys facility with Western Health and Victoria 1 chiron 150th Anniversary Program twenty11 Celebrating 150 Years of Making Doctors EXHIBITIONS A Med Student’s Life Memories, ephemera and photographs of student days collected from Melbourne medical graduates from the 1860s to today. Medical History Museum, 2nd floor, Brownless Biomedical Library, The University of Melbourne Thursday 8 March–Friday 24 August 2012 A Body of Knowledge Two exhibitions across three venues exploring the differing perceptions of the human body through art and through the various approaches to teaching students the functions, intricacies and wonders of medicine and dentistry. The Art of Teaching: 'The Anatomy Lesson', The Vizard Foundation of Art Collection of the 1990s, acquired 1995. On loan to the Ian Models and Methods Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne. Incorporating models, moulages, notebooks, Vivian Shark LeWitt, this exhibition pulls SPECIAL LECTURES photographs and illustrations from the extensive together a diverse array of body parts to create collections of the Harry Brookes Allen Museum a wondrous whole. Dean's Lecture Series of Anatomy and Pathology, the Henry Forman Featuring medical school staff and alumni: Atkinson Dental Museum, the Medical History The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Professors James Bishop (Cancer Medicine), Museum, and other University collections, this The University of Melbourne Stephen Davis (Translational Neuroscience), exhibition will highlight the fascinating objects Thursday 13 September 2012–Sunday 20 January 2013 Patrick Kwan (Neurology), Fernando and materials used in 150 years of biomedical Martin-Sanchez (Health Informatics), Terry teaching at the University of Melbourne. CAMPUS TOURS O’Brien (Medicine, RMH), Christos Pantelis (Psychiatry) and Paul Waring (Pathology) Leigh Scott Gallery, 1st floor, Baillieu Opportunities for alumni to rediscover old Library and the Medical History Museum, haunts and discover new approaches to Miegunyah Lecture 2nd floor, Brownless Biomedical Library, the making of 21st century doctors at the Professor Stephen Holgate from the University The University of Melbourne University will be offered through a range of Southampton School of Medicine Thursday 13 September 2012–Sunday 20 January 2013 of free campus tours. Alumni will be able to November 2012 explore the campus, the teaching facilities and The Anatomy Lesson
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