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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Neville Way was born in Boulder, Western Australia in 1924, the son of a doctor. He received his early education at the Goldfields High School, after which he served for a couple of years in the Royal Australian Navy before going to Adelaide where he graduated MB BS in 1948. He was the top student of the final year and a prize and medal winner. For the next few years he held appointments at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and was also an anatomy tutor in the university. He spent 1953 and 1954 in the United Kingdom gaining experience during which time he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Neville returned to Perth in 1955 and was to serve Royal Perth Hospital as a general surgeon for 34 years and was sometime Chairman of the Department of General Surgery. At the inception of the Medical School in 1957 he held a temporary appointment as Senior Assistant to the University Department of Surgery. In his younger days Neville was a keen Australian Rules footballer and played from 1945-1950 for Norwood and the State of South Australia. In later years he became interested in horse racing and was chairman of the West Australian Turf Club from 1987-1990. He married Margaret in 1955 and they have one daughter. Neville retired in 1989. |
