Eric Howard Manley LUKE  OStJ  CMG

MB ChB (NZ) 1920, FRCS (Edin) 1922, FRACS 1932

Born Wellington 18 Aug 1894                       Died Kerikeri 12 Jan 1987

Eric Luke

HS/HP, Wellington Hospital 1921

Honorary Visiting Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1924 - 1940

Senior Visiting Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1940 - 1950

Visiting Surgeon, Waipukurau Hospital

In 1935, he embarked on a period of postgraduate study into thoracic surgery and anaesthesia, visiting Melbourne, the Brompton Hospital in London (with Tudor-Edwards and Clement Price-Thomas), and Vienna.

On return to Wellington in 1936, he set up thoracic surgery though remained a general surgeon.

 

Obituary: NZMJ 1988 101:93

 

 

photograph courtesy NZMJ
Last updated 29 October 2016.