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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Marie (Mercy) Sadka was born in Singapore in 1923, the daughter of Sassoon Samuel Sadka, a business man, and Sarah Sadka. Mercy graduated BM BCh from Oxford University in 1947. She was a resident medical officer at the Royal Perth Hospital in 1948. In 1953 Mercy joined Professor Ida Mann in an extensive tour of the Kimberley and North West regions. The aim was to determine the cause of the high incidence of blindness in the Aboriginal population. Ida Mann was an Opthalmologist with an international reputation; she also liked writing and a description of what must have been in those days a most exiting trip are to be found in her book "The Cockney and the Crocodile", written under the name of Carolyne Gye. In 1955 Mercy spent two years at Harvard the first year as a Fellow in Neurology and the second year as a Fellow in Neuropathology. In 1959 she was appointed Consultant Neurologist at the Royal Perth Hospital and also held the position of Clinical Lecturer at the University of Western Australia. Mercy retired in 1988. During almost 30 years as a neurologist at the Royal Perth Hospital, Mercy has had an important role in the development of neurology. She introduced EEG into WA, first at the Royal Perth Hospital, and then at the Princess Margaret Hospital and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (1959; 1965; 1970). She was also responsible for initiating the modern technique in neuropathology of brain sectioning at this hospital in 1959 and started the Stroke Rehabilitation Unit at the Royal Perth (Rehabilitation) Hospital in the same year. Mercy is Vice Patron of the Muscular Distrophy Research Association, a member of the Brain Foundation and a supporter of various self help neurological bodies. In 1988 she received an AO for services to the community. Mercy Sadka has had a number of papers published and in 1980 was commissioned by the Australian Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled to write a monograph "Stroke Disability - Whose Responsibility". Mercy is a keen East Perth supporter and has been Vice Patron of the East Perth Football Club since 1978. |
