Dr Emily Eleanor Johnson
Personal Details
Dr Emily Eleanor Johnson MBChB FFARCS DA
28/04/1901 to 04/07/1990
Place of birth: Morley, Leeds, Yorkshire
Nationality: British
CRN: 715373
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Leeds High School; London School of Medicine for Women & Leeds University Medical School (Distinction in medicine) |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MBChB, Leeds, 1926 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1953 |
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Other qualification(s) |
DA(RCP&S), 1946 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
No details are recorded in the Medical Directory (other than an address in Wakefield) between qualification in 1926 and appointment as an anaesthetist to the EMS & Clayton Hospitals in Wakefield in 1942. However, subsequent entries indicate that she had been house physician at Leeds General Infirmary and subsequently worked as medical officer in antenatal and child welfare clinics. By 1955 she was senior consultant anaesthetist to the Wakefield hospitals, retiring in 1967.
Professional interests and activities
Published an early paper on trichloroethylene anaesthesia, and was sometime President of the Yorkshire Society of Anaesthetists.
Other biographical information
Contributions would be welcome.
Author and Sources
Author: Prof Tony Wildsmith
Sources and any other comments: Medical Directory | Leeds University archive | London Metropolitan (Royal Free) Archive