WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY
Brosnan, J Deen
James Deen BROSNANMB ChB (NZ) 1947, DO RCPS (Eng) 1952, FRCS (Eng) 1954, FRACS 1955, LMCC 1969, Spec Cert Ophth Canada 1969, FRCS C 1972
Born Wellington 18 Jan 1924 Died Vancouver 2014
Deen Brosnan
Educated at St Patrick’s College, Wellington (1936) and at St Patrick’s College, Silverstream (1937 – 1940)
HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1947 – 1948
Surgical Registrar, Grey River Hospital, Greymouth 1949
HS, Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital, Greenwich, London 1950
HS and Senior RSO, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London 1950 – 1952
Part-time Senior Hospital MO, Moorfields Eye, Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, St Thomas’ and Westminster General Hospitals 1952 – 1953
Senior Research Registrar, Institute of Ophthalmology, London 1954
Private Ophthalmology practice, Wellington 1955 – 1969
Visiting Ophthalmologist, Silverstream Hospital 1956 – 1958
Visiting Ophthalmologist, Hutt Hospital 1958
Visiting Ophthalmologist, Wellington Hospital 1956 – 1969
Fulbright Scholar 1962
Private Ophthalmology practice, Vancouver, Canada 1969 – 1999
Visiting Ophthalmologist, St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver 1970 – 1975
Visiting Ophthalmologist, St Vincent’s Hospital, Vancouver 1970 – 1999
Visiting Ophthalmologist, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver 1972 – 1989
Assistant Clinical Professor, Ophthalmology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 1975 – 1997
photograph courtesy Deen Brosnan