Portrait of Dame Kate Isabel Campbell (1899-1986)
Maker
K C Crabtree
Date
1971
Description
Head and upper torso portrait, begun on the day Campbell, aged 72, received her Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Dame Kate Campbell, DBE (1899-1986) was a physician and paediatrician and an eminent alumna of the University of Melbourne. After residencies at the Melbourne Hospital, Children's Hospital and (Royal) Women's Hospital, Campbell established a general practice and in 1929 began teaching neonatal paediatrics at the University of Melbourne - the first such appointment in Australia. A pioneer of neonatal intensive care, Campbell's most outstanding contribution in research was in 1951 when she established that excess therapeutic oxygen lay behind acquired retrolental fibroplasia, a condition that could lead to blindness among premature babies. Appointed OBE in 1954, she was elevated to DBE in 1971 for services to the welfare of Australian children.
Object detail
notations/inscriptions ▫ on label, below image: 'DAME KATE CAMPBELL (1899 - 1986) THE NEONATAL PAEDIATRICIAN WHO PROVED/THAT A HIGH CONCENTRATION OF OXYGEN CAUSED BLINDNESS IN PREMATURE BABIES' ▫ glass
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