Joyce Daws

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.

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
  1. Biodata, womenaustralia.info; accessed 25 July 2017.
  2. "Date of death provided" (PDF). Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2013.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
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