Name Geoffrey Kaye | ||
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Died 1986, Melbourne, Australia | ||
An interview with Dr Geoffrey Kaye, founder of ANZCA's Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History
Geoffrey Kaye (1903–1986) was an Australian anaesthetist.
Contents
- An interview with Dr Geoffrey Kaye founder of ANZCAs Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History
- Early life and education
- Anaesthesia
- Wartime
- Legacy
- References
Early life and education
Geoffrey Kaye was born Geoffrey Kornblum in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia in 1903. He was educated in England, and studied medicine at the University of Melbourne. In the late 1920s he had determined to apply his energies to the relatively field of anaesthesia which was then poorly represented at an academic level in Australia.
Anaesthesia
After travelling abroad extensively in 1930, Kaye devoted time to establishing the Australian Society of Anaesthetists, a goal that reached fruition in 1934 at an anaesthetic congress in Hobart. Before World War II he served as its first secretary.
Wartime
Dr Kaye served in the Middle East during World War II, providing anaesthetic advice to the Infantry Corps.
Legacy
Dr Kaye died in Melbourne in 1986. He is memorialised by the Geoffrey Kaye Oration at the Australian Society of Anaesthetists annual meeting and by the Geoffrey Kaye Museum at the headquarters of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. Many of his non-medical collectables such as porcelain items are held at the Ian Potter Museum at the University of Melbourne.