NEURO-SURGERY
SPECIALIST APPOINTMENT
(P.A.) DUNEDIN, Oct. 23. Major Murray A. Falconer has been appointed neuro-surgeon to the Dunedin Hospital. He is at present specialist to the St. Hugh's Military Hospital. Educated at the Otago Boys' High School and Otago University, he went to England in 1934. He was a surgical research scholar at the Mayo Clinic, U.S.A., being nominated by the British Medical Research Council. He was the first student to be nominated by the New Zealand University for a Nuffield Fellowship at Oxford, where he specialised for three years in neurosurgery. He is a son of Dr. R. A. Falconer, formerly Medical Superintendent of the Dunedin Hospital. A Government grant enabled the appointment to be made, and Major Falconer's services will be available to other centres.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 100, 24 October 1942, Page 6
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