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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Marx Wald was born in Sydney the son of Solomom Marx Wald a farmer and Bell nee Nissenbau. He received his undergraduate education in Sydney. As a young graduate he came first to work at the Royal Perth Hospital in 1956 after short term appointments at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and the Royal Hobart Hospital. Apart from the years 1957-1959 when he went to England to gain surgical experience he has been on the staff until his retirement in July 1998. In England he worked as a surgical registrar at the Chelmsford, Colchester and Fulham Hospitals. When there he obtained the Fellowships of both the Edinburgh and English colleges. He acknowledges a debt to Mr J.P. Ainslie, Mr A. Gild, Mr N. Robinson, Mr B. Nairn, Sir Hector Stewart as his teachers of Clinical and Operative surgery. In the early days of the Medical School he was from 1962-1964 a Junior Assistant in Surgery in the University Department. Apart from his appointment as a surgeon at the Royal Perth Hospital he held appointments from 1964 at the Mount Hospital, St John of God Hospital, Subiaco and at the Bentley Hospital from 1970. Marx's genial manner led him to being made Chairman of a number of committees including the State committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (1974-1976), the chairman of the Department of General Surgery at the RPH from 1986-1991 and the Foundation Chairman of the section of Colo-rectal surgery from 1993-1995. As a general surgeon Marx also had an interest in Hepato bilary surgery as shown by his membership of the World Association of Hepato biliary Surgery in 1987 and the International Hepato Biliary Association in 1994. In the world of medical politics Marx was the West Australian representative on the Australian Association of Surgeons from 1972-1976. Max married Diana Blythe in 1957 and they have four children. One daughter, Claudia is a Psychiatrist. Outside of medicine his interests include golf, bridge, reading, music, gardening and travel. He would regard the highlight of his career as his part in the continuous development of the Royal Perth Hospital over a span of 40 years. |
