James Newman (geriatrician)

James Lister Newman QSO (23 April 1903 – 17 October 1983) was a New Zealand geriatrician and advocate for the elderly, medical superintendent at Cornwall and Greenlane Hospitals in Auckland, and writer of the family doctor column in The New Zealand Herald.[1] He wrote an unpublished history of Cornwall Hospital, a copy of which is held in the Alexander Turnbull Library.[2]

In the 1975 Queen's Birthday Honours, Newman was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services, for services to the care of geriatrics.[3]

References
  1. Barker, Ronald. "James Lister Newman". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. Newman, James. 1982. History of the Cornwall Hospital: the development of geriatrics in New Zealand; a history of the hospital over a 30 year period. OCLC 973579261
  3. "No. 46595". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 14 June 1975. p. 7406.


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