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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Albert Gild was born in Adelaide, the son of Louis Gild and Gertrude nee Adelson in 1912. He attended Adelaide University and graduated MB,BS. in 1934. After resident appointments, he was made Lecturer in Histology at the University of Adelaide in 1937. The following year he was appointed Lecturer in Anatomy at King's College Newcastle upon Tyne. From 1940-42 he was a surgeon at the Essex County Hospital London. He then joined the RAMC as a surgical specialist with the rank of Major and served in Italy and in India, mostly in general hospitals, but also with a Field Surgical Unit. After demobilisation he returned to Australia and was appointed to the Surgical staff of both the Royal Perth and Princess Margaret Hospitals in 1947. He served the latter until 1970 and the Royal Perth Hospital until his retirement in 1974. He is well known to generations of medical students as a good teacher of the fundamentals of surgery and after retiring from the Clinical Staff because of age, he continued to teach students at the Osborne Park Hospital where a teaching unit was established. In 1939 he married Lily Rosenbaum, a dentist. They have three sons; two are Medical General Practitioners, graduates of the University of W.A. Albert always had an interest in history particularly of the Middle East and since his retirement from surgical practice has spent a large part of each year in Jerusalem where he has tutored students at the Hadassah University Medical School. |
