Lorimer Dods
Sir Lorimer Fenton Dods LVO was a pioneer of specialised health care for children who founded, with assistance from Dr John Fulton and Douglas Burrows, the Childrens Medical Research Foundation . He is considered one of Australias most influential paediatricians.
Lorimer Dods was born onMarch 1900 in Southport, Queensland, the son of architect Robin Dods and Mary Dods. In 1914, when he was thirteen, his family moved to Sydney and he was enrolled at Sydney Church of England Grammar School , where he remained until 1917. After Shore, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney from which he graduated in 1923. After graduation, he spent a few months in the surgical wards and pathology department of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital before a oneyear appointment as senior resident medical officer at Royal Newcastle Hospital. In December 1925 at the end of his years appointment, he sailed on the SS Moreton Bay as the ships surgeon between London and Sydney. When he returned to Sydney in 1926, he began to work as a general practitioner at 233 New South Head Road, living in a flat behind the surgery.
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