Notable Doctors and Board Members
Some notable individuals connected to the history of the Children's Hospital are:
- Sir Lorimer Dods LVO (1900–1981), paediatrician, who founded, with assistance from Dr John Fulton and Douglas Burrows, the Children's Medical Research Foundation.
- Sir Charles Clubbe (1854–1932), was the President of the hospital's Board of Management from 1904 until 1932, can perhaps be called the father of the Children's Hospital and is sometimes also mentioned as one of the fore-fathers of Australian orthopaedic surgery. Sir Charles Clubbe has a ward named after him.
- Dr Margaret Harper (1879–1964), paediatrician, who discovered the difference between coeliac disease and cystic fibrosis of the pancreas in 1930.
- Sir Norman Gregg (1892–1966), ophthalmologist, was the first person to identify German measles as a cause for congenital deformities.
- Dr Lindsay Dey CBE (1886-1973), paediatrician, was the President of the hospital's Board of Management from 1946 until 1959.
- Dr Frank Tidswell (1867-1941), microbiologist, was the Director of Pathology from 1913 until 1941.
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