Dental Surgery Queensland
Dentist with a spirit of experts and a soft touch
This article recently appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Brisbane Times – Australia.
Geoffrey Molyneux, 1926-2009
One day in London in the 1950s, Geoff Molyneux, a dentist young student from Australia, has been called to give an injection Kerr-June, another young Australian. I was so impressed by his technique painless married in 1954.
Molyneux then enjoy a lasting marriage and a distinguished career as a dentist, oral and maxillofacial surgeon and academic.
Geoffrey Stuart Molyneux, who died at age 83, was born in Sydney, the only son Roy Molyneux, an accountant, and his wife, Rita May Welch was Marcellin College, Randwick and Sydney University.
After obtaining a Bachelor of Surgery Dental in 1949, served for a year Sydney, then, like so many young dentists at the time, went abroad.
He became a dentist in London in 1951 and attended lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons, which leads to a primary consideration of the provision of dental surgery. After two years of work and study that has completed the scholarship and worked at the Hammersmith.
Back in Sydney after five years, took the Molyneux Working as a graduate assistant to the director of the Institute of Dental Research and was soon appointed pathologist at the Sydney Dental Hospital.
In 1958, also started classes in the department of histology and embryology at the University of Sydney and became a senior researcher at the Research Institute Dental, Sydney.
In 1962 he was appointed professor of anatomy at University of NSW.
He moved to the University of Tasmania as a reader of anatomy at 1967 and took the chair of anatomy University of Queensland in 1971. There he remained until his retirement in 1991 as professor emeritus and has never deviated from his determination department a center of excellence for business and science education and research.
He spent a sabbatical year as professor of anatomy at Harvard and six months for visiting researcher at the CSIRO laboratories in the physiology of animals at Prospect.
Although primary research area Molyneux was the arteriovenous anastomosis (microscopic blood vessels that connect the arterial and venous systems) and its role in regulating body temperature, his interests extended to oral pathology, bacteriology, experimental surgery, zoology, neuroanatomy and function of the TMJ (jaw joint). Results of his work has been published in 14 scientific journals and has authored or co-author of eight book chapters.
Molyneux has served as honorary secretary and Treasurer of the Australian chapter of the International Association for Dental Research and was a member of the board of dental health education and the Foundation for Research.
At the University of Sydney, was based on research and has been Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into Dental Health Foundation.
He was also president of the Royal Society of Queensland, the president of the Microscopy Society of Australia, the President of the Anatomical Society Australia and New Zealand and a member of the leadership of Australia and New Zealand Microcirculation Society.
Following his retirement, the Molyneuxs tour of Australia, then moved Hobart. Molyneux enjoyed reading and working with wood as he could but his desire to build a boat and sail back was thwarted by health problems.
Geoff Molyneux June is survived by her children Tony, Damian, Susan and Virginia. Another daughter, Michelle, died before him.
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