Norman Reay MACKAY   
MB ChB (NZ), MD (NZ), MRCP (Edin), FRACP
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Born Stratford 22/4/1900    Died Manakau 1/11/1987

Educated at Hamilton High School

MB ChB (NZ) 1924, MD (NZ) 1930 (thesis on polio cases at Wellington Hospital),
MRCP (Edin) 1931, FRACP 1938

HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1924 - 1925
Assistant Superintendent, Pukeora Sanitorium 1926

Postgraduate experience in Edinburgh, London and in Vienna
HP, London Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and Lungs at Victoria Park

On return to NZ, practised at Ruatoria and was Medical Superintendent Waiapu Hospital in Te Puia Springs

Honorary Assistant Physician, Wellington Hospital 1936 - 1940
Visiting Assistant Physician,, Wellington Hospital 1940 - 1943
Physician in charge, Cardiology Department, Wellington Hospital 1944 - May 1947, whilst Charles Burns was overseas
Visiting Senior Physician, Wellington Children's Hospital 1943 - 1960

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Obituary: NZMJ 1988 101:32

photograph courtesy
Wellington Hospital photographic archive