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WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY

Gibbs, Edward G

Edward Gardner GIBBS

MB ChB (Edin) 1928, MD (Edin) 1930, FRCS (Edin) 1931, FRACS 1944

Born Wellington 20 Dec 1905 Died Taupo 2000
E G Gibbs
Educated at Waitaki Boys’ High School
Residency positions and postgraduate training in Edinburgh
Honorary Assistant Visiting Physician, Wellington Hospital 1936 – 1940
Visiting Assistant Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1940 – 1956
WW2 service in Egypt and Italy
Visiting Senior Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1956 – 1969
Honorary Consulting Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1969 – 1974
Pioneered early vascular surgery at the Hospital
Part-time Senior Casualty and Admitting Officer, Wellington Hospital 1969 – 1972
Part-time MO, Mobile Transfusion Service 1973

photograph courtesy S P Andrew collection, Alexander Turnbull Library