Bradford, Dr Kathleen Audrey Biography 1991

BRADFORD, Dr Kathleen Audrey (Kay)
MBE 1989
Chief Health Officer, Nelson/Marlborough
Born Waipukurau, 2 February 1930, daughter of James Byatt Johnstone and Kilburnie Patridge (née Geenty); married Alan Guibal Bradford, son of Edouard Jules Gaston Bradford, 1954; two sons one daughter.
Education: Marton DHS South School, Dannevirke; St Matthew’s Collegiate School for Girls, Masterton, Hastings High School; Victoria University Med Int, 1949; Otago University, MB ChB, 1954; University of Melbourne, DPM 1965; MRANZCP. House surgeon, Auckland and Green Lane Hospitals, 1955-1957; Registrar, chest med, Green Lane Hospital, 1957-1959; Registrar, psychiatry, Auckland Hospital, 1959-1961; MO, Oakley, Carrington Hospital, Auckland, 1961; Consultant, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and Observatory Clinic, South Yarra, 1961-1965; Medical Superintendent, Braemar Hospital, Nelson, 1965-1970; Consultant, Wairau Hospital, Blenheim, 1965-1989; Consultant, child, adolescent psychiatry, Nelson Hospital, 1971-1989; Consultant, Lecturer, Northwestern University, Chicago, 1979-1971; Senior Lecturer, Wellington Clinical School, 1980-1989; Consultant, Buller Hospital, 1985-1989; Chief Health Officer, Nelson Area Health Board, 1989, Nelson/Marlborough AHB, 1990 -.
Publications: Community Care for the Intellectually Handicapped, 1965; Causes of Violence in NZ Society, 1972; Healthy NZ-Community Programme for Children and Families, 1988.
Recreations: pets, snow skiing, gardening.
Address: Beacon Hill, RD 1, Nelson.