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Rudd, George Vincent


Qualifications
MSc Melb (1923) DSc Melb (1934) MBBS Melb (1939) MRACP (1950) FRCPA (1954) FRACP (1963)
Born
21/09/1900
Died
10/06/1992

George Rudd graduated with a Master of Science degree from the University of Melbourne in 1923. Between 1923 and 1925 he was employed in the Insulin Section of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories in Victoria. In 1925 he was appointed as the first full-time research biochemist in the Institute of Medical Research at Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH)in Sydney. His early research work was in the areas of gastric efficiency, diagnosis of cancer from blood serum, the bone forming elements of the blood of patients following fractures and investigations of the gastric secretions of patients with diabetes. He was awarded a doctorate in 1934 for research done in the Kolling Institute at RNSH.

He returned to Melbourne in 1934 to study medicine, graduating in 1939, interrupting his medical training to lecture in bacteriology at the University of Sydney in 1937. After graduation, he was employed as Research Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. From 1940 to 1946 he served in the AIF as a pathologist.

In 1946 he visited a number of hospital laboratories and research institutes in the United States, Canada and Great Britain before returning to Australia as Director of Pathology at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. From 1949 to 1964 he was engaged in private practice as a pathologist in Macquarie Street, Sydney.

In 1955 he was appointed Honorary Consulting Haematologist to RNSH. He published original work in the areas of biochemistry, physiology and bacteriology.

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J ISBISTER

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May 30, 2018, 17:35 PM
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