Alfred Norman SLATER

MB ChB (NZ) 1923, FRCS (Edin) 1933, FFARACS 1952 (foundation fellow), FFARCS (Eng) 1953

Born Dunedin 13 Nov 1900                      Died Wellington 5 Dec 1975

Alf Slater

Educated at Otago Boys' High School, Otago University

HS, Wellington Hospital 1923 - 1924

Locum GP, New Plymouth 1925

General Practice in Otaki 1926 - 1928

General Practice in Island Bay 1928 - 1939

Visiting Anaesthetist, Wellington Hospital 1930 - 1939

WW2 service in Egypt and Greece; POW 1942 - 1943

Post-war, restricted his practice to anaesthesia

Senior Visiting Anaesthestist, Wellington Hospital 1944 - 1962, and he was Director of Anaesthesia from 1953 - 1961

First NZ Board Member, Faculty of Anaesthetists, RACS 1952 - 1955

President, NZ Society of Anaesthetists 1955 - 1957

Life Member, NZ Society of Anaesthetists 1969

 

Obituary: NZMJ 1976 83:90

 

photograph courtesy NZMJ
Last updated 29 October 2016.