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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Max Traub was born in Perth in December 1928, the son of Michael Traub, a jeweller and Ethel (nee) Catts. He received his early education at Highgate and Perth Boys School, and graduated in medicine at the University of Adelaide. He was early attracted to the role of a physician and spent time gaining experience at the Postgraduate Medical School in London and also at the University of Cincinnatti. He was appointed a physician to the Royal Perth Hospital in 1959 and at the same time held similar appointments at the King Edward Memorial Hospital and the Repatriation General Hospital. Max was also a part time Clinical Lecturer at the University of Western Australia. Max served from 1953 to 1984 with the CMF and was a Lt. Colonel on reserve. He was awarded the E.D. and R.F.D. for that service. Max's special interest and expertise lay in gastroenterology and he introduced liver biopsies to the Royal Perth Hospital in 1959 and was the senior gastroscopist when only rigid gastroscopes were available. Always willing to be in the forefront of medicine he pioneered the use of a number of drugs at the hospital and the introduction of a number of invasive procedures both in cardiology and gastroenterology. Outside of medicine Max has travelled widely and for years made an annual visit to an orphanage in Bali providing it with much needed medical supplies. He is a keen philatelist and a lover of music. In 1975 Max married Alisa Rubin and they have two sons and two daughters. One daughter is a dietician whilst the sons are engineers. Max retired in 1993 after 34 year service to the hospital and in recognition of this the Board of Management appointed him an Emeritus Consultant Physician. |
