William Liley

Sir Albert William ( "Bill" ) Liley KCMG ( born March 12, 1929 in Auckland, † June 15, 1983 in Auckland ) was a New Zealand gynecologist and obstetrician.

Life and work

Albert William Liley, who called himself rather Bill Liley was born in 1929 in Auckland. He attended the Royal Oak Primary School, later the Auckland Grammar School.

Liley received the 1947 University National Scholars chip and enrolled at the Universities of Auckland and Otago. Due to its good performance in 1950, he received a postgraduate scholarship, so that he graduated in Dunedin in 1954. He won a 1954 scholarship result, however, went to the Australian National University, where he conducted research in the field of physiology, in particular on various aspects of synaptic transmission. Later he went as a Sandoz Research Fellow back to Auckland. 1968 Liley was appointed to the chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Auckland. Here he devoted himself to the problems of unborn and newborn children, especially the hemolytic disease of the newborn, which was accompanied this time with a mortality. William Liley is considered the first physician who has treated the fetus as a patient. He developed the technique of intrauterine blood transfusion for fetuses who were too young to survive outside the uterus can. The first successful intervention succeeded him in 1963.

Liley founded in 1971 the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (now Voice for Life ) and was its first president. In 1977, a series of interviews with Liley and Jérôme Lejeune entitled The Tiniest Humans.

1983 William Liley retired at the age of 54 years committed suicide. He left behind his wife Margaret Liley, nee Hunt, whom he had met at the University and married in 1953, and five biological children and an adopted child.

Writings (selection )

  • Liley AW: Liquor amnii analysis in the management of the pregnancy complicated by rhesus sensitization. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 82 (1961 ), 1359-70

Honors

  • Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George by Queen Elizabeth II (1972 )
  • Royal Society of New Zealand
  • 1958 Research Fellowship from the Medical Research Council of New Zealand
  • 1972-1978 Member of the Medical Research Council of New Zealand
  • 1973-1978 Chairman of the South Pacific Health Committee
  • Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences ( although atheist )
  • From 1968 member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on maternal and child health

The international scientific society The fetus as a patient has been giving 1997 William Liley Medal for advances in pregnancy therapy. The Health Research Council of New Zealand also gives a Liley Medal for outstanding achievements in the field of medicine and health care.

Swell

  • Monica J. Casper: The making of the unborn patient. Rutgers University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-813-52516-0. in the Google Book Search
  • Robert Sassone (Ed.): The Tiniest Humans: Interviews with Sir William Liley and Professor Alfred Jerome Lejeune. Stafford, Virginia in 1977, American Life League. excerpt online
  • Physician ( 20th century )
  • University teachers ( University of Auckland )
  • Gynecologist, Obstetrician
  • Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
  • New Zealanders
  • Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Born in 1929
  • Died in 1983
  • Man
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
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