Helen Mary MayoOBE (1 October 1878 – 13 November 1967) was an Australian medical doctor and medical educator, born and raised in Adelaide. In 1896, she enrolled at the University of Adelaide, where she studied medicine. After graduating, Mayo spent two years working in infant health in England, Ireland and British India. She returned to Adelaide in 1906, starting a private practice and taking up positions at the Adelaide Children's Hospital and Adelaide Hospital (later the Royal Adelaide).
In 1909, she co-founded the School for Mothers, where mothers could receive advice on infant health. This organisation, which became the Mothers' and Babies' Health Association in 1927, eventually established branches across South Australia and incorporated a training school for maternal nurses. In 1914, after unsuccessfully campaigning for the Children's Hospital to treat infants, Mayo co-founded the Mareeba Hospital for infants.
In addition to her medical achievements, Mayo participated in a number of other organisations. She was heavily involved in the University of Adelaide, serving on the university council from 1914 to 1960 (the first woman in Australia to be elected to such a position) and establishing a women's club and boarding college there.
She was also the founder of the Adelaide Lyceum Club, an organisation for professional women. Mayo died in 1967, with the Medical Journal of Australia attributing the success of South Australia's infant welfare system to her efforts.
Helen Mary Mayo OBE (1 October 1878 – 13 November 1967) was an Australian medical doctor and medical educator, born and raised in Adelaide. In 1896, she...
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state redistribution of 3 September 1984, the division is named after HelenMayo, a social activist and the first woman elected to an Australian University...
also the first to elect a woman to a university council in Australia, HelenMayo (MBBS, 1902), in 1914. The great hall of the university, Bonython Hall...
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medical practice that later evolved into the Mayo Clinic. His sons, William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo, established a joint medical practice in Rochester...
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Clapesattle, Helen. The Doctors Mayo, University of Minnesota Press (1975). ISBN 0-8166-0465-7 Jacek, B (1995), "Man behind the instrument (11). Mayo, William...
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medical school benefactor Louisa Martindale (1872–1966), British surgeon HelenMayo (1878–1967), Australian doctor and pioneer in preventing infant mortality...
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and energy to the organization. Others on the committee included Dr. HelenMayo, Mrs Delprat, Lilian Delissa and A. L. Tomkinson. The first "classes"...
Andrew Hicks Mayo MBE (born 21 September 1958) is an English radio presenter and author who worked for BBC Radio from 1982 until 2022. Mayo has presented...
(1885–1967) Doris Egerton Jones (1889–1973), Sydney author and playwright Dr. HelenMayo Dr. Gertrude Mead daughter of Rev. Silas Mead Dr. Violet Plummer (1887–1890)...
Gaol, the Bonython Park, the John E Brown Park, the Mary Lee Park, the HelenMayo Park, the Kate Cocks Park, and the Deceased Workers Memorial Forest. As...
(1884–1974) QLD HelenMayo (1878–1967) SA Violet Plummer (1873–1962) SA Jessie Scott (1883–1959) NZ Hannah Mary Helen Sexton, known as Helen Sexton (1862–1950)...
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Free Kindergarten, in her honour. Concerned by infant mortality, Morice, HelenMayo, and Harriet Stirling wished to improve nutrition and hygiene for South...
Chicago. Helen and Frank spent most of their time in South Florida. Her husband died in 1970. After a routine medical check-up at the Mayo Clinic in...
Catherine Helen Spence. A later President was his oldest daughter Harriet (OBE), who also founded the Mothers and Babies Health Association with HelenMayo. Stirling...
Loretta Marron OAM – CEO of Friends of Science in Medicine Helen Marshall – vaccinologist HelenMayo – pioneer in women's and children's health Henry Simpson...
(2015) Western Ways: Remembering Mayo Through the Eyes of Helen Hooker and Ernie O’Malley, Mercier Press. The Helen Hooker O'Malley Roelefs Sculpture...
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