DENTAL CHAIR

Evening Star, Issue 25673, 22 December 1945, Page 4

DENTAL CHAIR

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO DR J. P. WALSH APPOINTED Dr J. P. Walsh, M. 8., B.S. (Melbourne), BD.Sc, L.D.S. (Victoria), D.D.Sc, has been • appointed to the chair of dentistry at the University of Otago. The appointment was made necessary by the resignation of Dr R. B. Dodds. Dr Walsh, who is at present a medical officer in the Royal Australian Air Force, stationed at Adelaide, and consulting dental surgeon to the R.A.A.F. in South Australia, was born in Melbourne, and served a five years' apprenticeship as a dental mechanic. By attending night classes be completed matriculation for dental science and medicine, and took a dental course at the University of Melbourne, obtaining honours in all subjects. He graduated in 1936 with first class final honours and distinction in eight subjects, a record which was without precedent in the history of the Melbourne Dental School. After holding the full-time appointment of registrar at the Melbourne Dental Hospital for one year, Dr Walsh had experience in general practice as a locum tenens for IS months, and in 1938 he completed part I. of the degree of doctor of dental science, after which he was appointed part-time anaesthetist and esodontist to the Denr tal Hospital and demonstrator and examiner in anaesthesia and exodontia, positions which he held until 1941. In 1939 he commenced private practice in Melbourne, and during that time he took a medical course, graduating as bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery in 1943. He was then appointed to the resident medical staff of. the Alfred Hospital, one of the main medical teaching hospitals in Melbourne, and early this year he entered" the R.A.A.F. as a niedical officer. Dr Walsh, among other appointments, has been a member of the Council of the Australian Dental Association, and a member of the B.M.A. He has to his credit several publications on dental subjects. . Dr Walsh is 34 years of age, and is married, with four children. It is expected that he will take up his appointment early in the new year. He was' chosen for the position from 20 applicants from England, Canada, Australia, New -Zealand, Eire, and the United States. .