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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Robert (Bob) Fleay gave forty years service to Royal Perth Hospital. He was born at Mount Lawley in 1929 and received his schooling at Perth Modern School. In 1947 he joined the staff of Royal Perth Hospital as a cadet radiographer. On completion of the four year course he elected to undertake a special course in Radiotherapy Techniques at the Peter McCallum Institute in Melbourne - a course he completed with distinction. At the age of 23 he was appointed Senior Radiotherapy Technician in the Radiotherapy Department and in 1959 Chief Radiotherapy Technician. In that year he also completed a Diploma in Applied Science at Perth Technical College. With the establishment of a Department of Medical Physics in 1960, he joined the staff of that department as Assistant to the Medical Physicist. The same year he was awarded the Watson Victor Medallion by the Australian Institute of Radiography for outstanding achievement in Radiography. He was also its Federal President in that year. Always interested in new developments, he was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship, one of the first given in Western Australia, to study the use of radioisotopes in diagnosis and therapy at the Medical Research Centre Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York. In his private life Bob was married to Fran, at one time also a member of Royal Perth Hospital staff. He has a son and a daughter and is a well known yachtsman and power boat owner being sometime Commodore of the Fremantle Sailing Club. Bob retired in 1987. |
