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WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY

Duncan, R Bruce

Robert Bruce DUNCAN

MB ChB (NZ) 1943, FRCS (Edin) 1949, FRCS (Eng) 1951, FRACS 1962

Born Wellington 11 Jun 1920 Died Wellington 9 Sep 2004
Bruce Duncan
HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1944 – 1945
Registrar, Eye and ENT, Wellington Hospital 1945 – 1947
SHO, Wellington Hospital 1948
Served with 2nd NZEF, J-Force 1946 – 1947
Postgraduate studies at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 1948
HS, then Registrar, Royal National Throat Hospital, London 1949 – 1951
ENT Surgeon, Wellington and Hutt Hospitals 1951 – 1962
Visiting ENT Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1962 – 1979
Visiting Otologist, Audiology Department, Wellington Hospital 1962 – 1979
Head of ENT Department, Wellington Hospital 1968 – 1976
Visiting Senior Otologist, Palmerston North Hospital 1980 – 1987
Retired from private practice in 1999
Major interest in allergy-related disease
Fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy 1974 – 1994

photograph courtesy Bruce Duncan
Obituary: NZMJ 2004 117:1129