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| Date of birth: |
1903 |
| Place of birth: |
Melbourne |
| Date of death: |
1986 |
| Place of death: |
Melbourne |
| Biography: |
Geoffrey Alfred Kaye was born on 9 April 1903 at St. Kilda, Melbourne, the fourth child of Alfred and Rosetta Kornblum. He was educated in England, and adopting the name Kaye, commenced studying medicine at the University of Melbourne. He graduated MB, 1926, BS, 1927 and MD, 1929. As resident medical officer at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, by 1927, he specialised in the early Australian development of the field of anaesthetics. After being appointed an honorary anaesthetist at the Alfred Hospital in 1930, Kaye travelled to the UK, Germany and North America expanding his knowledge.
In 1931, he strove to raise the standards of anaesthetics in Australia. He edited Practical Anaesthesia (1932); his lobbying led to the formation of the Australian Society of Anaesthetics in 1934, and he edited its newsletter and served as its first secretary; he lectured part-time in anaesthetics at the University of Melbourne. During the Second World War, he worked as a captain in the Australian Army Medical Corp, on the design and manufacture of anaesthetic equipment.
Kay withdrew from practice and teaching in 1957, but became a consulting anaesthetist at the Alfred and continued his research. He maintained a voluminous correspondence with colleagues. He died on 28 October 1986 at East Melbourne.
[From Ray Marginson, Kaye, Geoffrey Alfred (1903-1986), Australian Dictionary of Biography - Online Edition.] |
| Activities/Occupation: |
Doctors |
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