Allen, Ivan M

Born Auckland 10 Nov 1895 Died Wellington 31 Jul 1962
I M Allen
Educated at Auckland Grammar School, Auckland and Otago Universities
HS / HP, Dunedin Hospital 1919 – 1920
Clinical Assistant, Pathology Department, Dunedin Hospital 1921
GP in Rangiora 1922 – 1927
Postgraduate studies in London 1927 – 1931
HP, West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases
Registrar, Outpatients, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square
Returned home in 1932, to become New Zealand’s first consultant neurologist. As such, his opinion was sought from many centres and he travelled widely.
Honorary visiting Assistant Physician, Wellington Hospital 1932 – 1936
Honorary visiting Senior Physician, Wellington Hospital 1936 – 1937
Honorary visiting Neurologist, Wellington Hospital 1937 – 1940
Visiting Neurologist, Wellington Hospital 1940 – 1946, and from 1/10/1951 – 1956
Consulting Neurologist, Wellington Hospital 1956 – 1962
Known to his friends and colleagues as ‘Dusty’

Obituary: NZMJ 1963 62:244

photograph courtesy J O Mercer collection