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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Richard (Dick) Joske was born in Melbourne in 1925, the son of Edmond Joske, a medical practitioner and Molly nee Roberts. He attended Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, having obtained a Rosa Elizabeth Millear Scholarship and took the matriculation in 1942 with honours in four subjects. Dick graduated MB BS from the University of Melbourne in 1948 (A.M. White Scholar). After serving his residency at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, he was appointed a Drug Houses of Australia Fellow at the Clinical Research Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. From 1953-55 he was appointed as an Associate Assistant at these institutions where he worked with Sir MacFarlane Burnet and Sir Ian Wood. In 1955 Dick Joske was awarded a Nuffield Dominion Fellowship in Medicine and spent a year at University College Hospital Medical School, London with Professor Lord Rosenheim. Following this he was awarded a Commonwealth Fund (Harkness) Advanced Fellowship in Medicine which enabled him to spend a year at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He returned to Australia in 1957 and came to the Department of Medicine, University of Western Australia as the Adolph Basser Fellow in Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He was made Reader in Experimental Medicine, University of Western Australia in 1962, Professor of Medicine in 1968 and Dean, Faculty of Medicine from 1978. Dick was a physician at the Royal Perth Hospital, the Fremantle Hospital, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and the Repatriation Hospital. He was a member of the Boards of Management of the Royal Perth Hospital and the Fremantle Hospital and of the St John of God Hospital Advisory Board of Management. He was a visiting examiner in Medicine to the Universities of Adelaide, Queensland, Malaysia and Singapore. He was a member of the University Senate 1971-74 and has also served on the Academic Council, the Raine Medical Foundation Research Committee and the Healy Medical Research Foundation Committee. Dick Joske was President of the W.A. Branch of the A.M.A. from 1980-82. He has been a scientific referee for a number of organisations such as the National Health and Medical Research Council and an editorial referee for a number of National and International scientific journals. In addition to this editorial work he has published extensively himself and has been the co-editor of two books and has written approximately 140 scientific papers. Dick Joske married Enid Jocelyn Prudence Apperly in 1952 and they have four sons. David studied medicine and is a Clinical Haematologist. Extra-professional interests include cricket, Australian Rules Football, philately, reading, walking and travel. Richard Joske retired in December 1990. |
