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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Dr Barbara Watson was born in Perth in 1937, her father a business manager and her mother Vera (nee Riley). She graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1962. She became interested in the practice of anaesthetics and took a number of training positions here and overseas, the result of which she obtained appropriate higher qualifications in her specialty. From 1965 to 1970 she worked in a number of countries including the United Kingdom, Denmark, United States of America and Papua New Guinea. In 1971 she married and has two children, one who is now an engineer. From 1970 to 1987 she served Royal Perth Hospital as a consultant anaesthetist during which time she became associated with Sir GM Bedbrook in the establishment of respiratory care at the Spinal Unit of the Rehabilitation Hospital. Apart from her work at Royal Perth Hospital, from 1987 onwards she has worked for the Cancer Foundation in Palliative Care and for many years has served the community through the Red Cross and Aged Persons Support Service. Her extra-professional interests apart from her family include choir singing, golfing and tennis. She has contributed short papers on anaesthesia and analgesia and made a contribution to the book of "The Lifetime Care of the Paraplegic Patient" ed by GM Bedbrook. |
