Maurice Ewing (surgeon)
Professor Maurice Rossie Ewing CBE | |
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Born | Leith, Scotland | 6 July 1912
Died | 24 June 1999 | (aged 86)
Nationality | Scottish |
Education | Daniel Stewart's College, Edinburgh University of Edinburgh |
Occupation | Professor of surgery |
Known for | Renal transplantation. Head and neck cancer surgery |
Medical career | |
Institutions | University of Melbourne |
Maurice Rossie Ewing, CBE,
Early life and education
He was born on 6 July 1912 at 53 Dudley Crescent, Leith, the youngest of the four sons of Annabel (née Rossie) and Thomas Miller Ewing, master mariner and a captain with the
Medical career
He was house surgeon to
From 1947 he worked with Professor Ian Aird as senior lecturer at the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital. During his time in London he was a Hunterian lecturer and won a travelling fellowship to Scandinavia. He was awarded a British Empire fellowship to Memorial Hospital, New York, where he worked with the leading head and neck surgeon Dr Hayes Marti n.[2][3]
In 1955 he was appointed as first occupant of the new James Stewart chair of surgery at University of Melbourne. The chair which he took in Melbourne was based at the Alfred Hospital, then the Royal Melbourne Hospital, with the establishment of Monash University. He was also responsible for surgical teaching at St Vincent's Hospital and Prince Henry's Hospital.
At the Royal Melbourne he established a renal transplant program under the direction of the nephrologists Professor Priscilla Kincaid-Smith and Dr Vernon Marshall.[4] Peter Morris set up a tissue typing laboratory and a research laboratory in transplantation immunology in Ewing's department to support this service.[5] Ewing's s other clinical interests were in head and neck cancer, parenteral nutrition and peripheral vascular disease.[6] He also introduced the practice of using sheepskins under the patient to reduce the incidence of pressure sores.[7] He was active in promoting seatbelt legislation. The wearing of seatbelts in cars was made compulsory in the State of Victoria in 1970, a world first.[8]
He retired in 1977 and was appointed a
Following retirement from the University of Melbourne, he spent six months in Kuala Lumpur developing the academic surgical unit of the University of Malaya.[2]
Personal life
Ewing married Phyllis Edith Parnall, whom he had met in Malta where she was a Volunteer Air Detachment nurse. They had one daughter, Sarah, and two sons Hamish and Alastair.[2]
References
- ^ Ewing, Maurice. "Statutory Register of Births". Scotland's People. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
- ^ a b c d e Royal College of Surgeons of England. "Ewing, Maurice Rossie – Biographical entry – Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
- ^ "Hayes Martin, MD". American Head & Neck Society. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
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- ^ "Witness to the History of Australian Medicine, The development of microvascular surgery in Australia, Endnotes". witness.esrc.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
- PMID 14176462.
- ^ "A Potted Seat Belt History". Drivers Technology. Archived from the original on 14 May 2008. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
- ^ "Maurice Rossie Ewing" (PDF). The London Gazette. 31 December 1977. Retrieved 30 March 2018.