Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E006337 - Birch, Doreen Ashmel (1926 - 1975)
Title:
Birch, Doreen Ashmel (1926 - 1975)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E006337
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-11-14
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Birch, Doreen Ashmel (1926 - 1975), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Birch, Doreen Ashmel
Date of Birth:
28 November 1926
Place of Birth:
Bloemfontein, South Africa
Date of Death:
October 1975
Place of Death:
Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1961
MB ChB Cape Town 1949
FRCS Ed 1957
FRACS 1973
Details:
Doreen Ashmel Birch was born at Bloemfontein, South Africa, on 28 November 1926, the only child of a lawyer. She was educated at the University of Cape Town where she qualified MB ChB in 1949. She came to England for postgraduate study and obtained the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1957 and the FRCS in 1961. She was research assistant to Michael Boyd, Professor of Surgery, Manchester in 1955 and published a paper on micro-electrophoretic studies in post-operative patients with R P Jepson who was later Professor of Surgery in Adelaide.
She married Dr J C McCaffrey in 1963, by whom she had one son. She practised at Mount Gambier, South Australia, where she died in October 1975.
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006300-E006399
Media Type:
Unknown
