Twilight Talks 2025, Season 4, Remembrance Day | A Surgeon Commander & A Leading Cook – Ballarat Connections to HMAS Sydney 2 in 1941
Bar open at 5pm
Humffray Room
A Surgeon Commander & A Leading Cook - Ballarat Connections to HMAS Sydney 2 in 1941
Speaker: Dr Jean Douglas
Jean Douglas MBBS. FRACGP. Diploma Obstetrics (Auckland). Master of Medicine (Melbourne).
Jean has been a general practitioner working with her husband *Dr Havea Tamanika in Bendigo for over forty years, retiring in 2015. After a stay in Melbourne, they moved to Ballarat three years ago to be close to family. During her years in Bendigo, she was involved with various community agencies such as Breastscreen, CASA and Loddon Mallee Integrated Cancer Service, Bendigo Hospital Aged Care and St John of God Medical Advisory Board.
After retirement she has renewed her interest in History and Family research. She is a member of the Heritage and Archives Committee of Australian Medical Association Victoria.
She has researched the seventy-nine Victorian Doctors dying in World War 1 and World War 2 culminating in a Memorial Service in November at the AMA Headquarters in Parkville Melbourne in 2023.
- Unfortunately Dr Tamanika, sadly passed away very recently.
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Tickets and Bookings
Tickets $9.73 BMI members & $13.83 general admittance, includes gst & bkg fee.
