MACNAMARA, Dame ANNIE JEAN (1899-1968), medical scientist, was born on 1 April
1899 at Beechworth, Victoria, second daughter of Victorian-born parents John
Macnamara, clerk of courts, and his wife Annie, née Fraser. She was brought up in
her mother's Presbyterian faith, but it was probably from her Catholic father,
impetuous and forthright, that she inherited her determined spirit.
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Jean Macnamara, born in 1899 at Beechworth, Victoria, and a graduate of the University of Melbourne, was a physician at the Children's Hospital Melbourne in 1922 and 1923, a consultant and medical officer to the Poliomyelitis Committee of Victoria 1925-1931, and medical officer, Yooralla Hospital School for Crippled Children 1928-1951. During 1931-1933 she held the Rockefeller Foundation travelling scholarship, furthering her studies on poliomyelitis. While in America she learnt about the virus myxomatosis and it was largely due to her efforts that the Australian Government held field trials testing the virus as a means to eradicating Australia's rabbit problem. She was on the part-time staff of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research 1933-1937. As Mrs Annie Jean Connor (she married Dr Ivan Connor in 1934), she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to the welfare of children in 1935, and was known as Dame Jean Macnamara.
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Dame Annie Jean Macnamara (later Connor) was a physician at the Children's Hospital Melbourne from 1923, a consultant and medical officer to the Poliomyelitis Committee of Victoria 1925-31, and the Medical Officer, Yooralla Hospital School for Crippled Children 1928-51.
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1922
Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne
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1922 - 1923
Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Hospital
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1923 - 1928
Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
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1925 - ?
Career position - Entered private practice
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1925
Career position - Doctor of Medicine (MD) received from the University of Melbourne
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1925 - 1931
Career position - Consultant in Infantile paralysis to the Poliomyelitis Committee of Victoria
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1928 - ?
Career position - Honorary Medical Officer in the Physiotherapy Department at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
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1928 - 1951
Career position - Honorary Medical Officer at the Yooralla Hospital for Crippled Children
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1930 - 1931
Career position - Honorary Advisor on polio to official authorities in New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania
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1931 - 1933
Career position - Travelled to England and North America on a Rockefeller Fellowship
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1933 - 1937
Career position - Worked at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (part-time)
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1935
Award - Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
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1937 - 1942
Career position - Member of the Consultative Council for Polio
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1946 - 1947
Career position - Member of the Consultative Council for Polio
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1966
Career position - Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD (Hon)) received from the University of Melbourne
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