Background
Dommisse, George Frederick was born on November 1, 1914 in Dewetsdorp, South Africa. Son of Jan Dommisse and Dorothy Mary Dunn.
educator consultant researcher orthopedic surgeon
Dommisse, George Frederick was born on November 1, 1914 in Dewetsdorp, South Africa. Son of Jan Dommisse and Dorothy Mary Dunn.
Bachelor of Medicine, BChir, University Cape Town, South Africa, 1937. Mean Corpuscular hemoglobin, University Cape Town, 1972. Doctor of Medicine, University Pretoria, South Africa, 1974.
House surgeon, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, 1938-1939; junior surgeon, World World War II Emergency Medical Superior vena cava syndrome, London, 1940-1941; surgeon, South African Medical Corps, South Africa and Italy, 1942-1946; orthopedic surgeon, U. Pretoria Medical School, since 1949.
Serving brother St. John's Ambulance Association, Pretoria, 1950, district surgeon, 1965. Special member National Council of Care of Cripples in South Africa, 1957, chairman, 1975-1987, president, 1988. Co-founder Cripples Research Association of South Africa, 1971, chairman, 1971-1984.
Member subcommittee on seatbelts in motor vehicles National Road Safety Council, 1960s. Member subcommittee on child health National Department Health of South Africa, 1979, subcommittee on the physically disabled, 1985. Member advisory subcommittee on motor vehicle accidents Medical Research Council of South Africa, 1985.
Captain South African Medical Corps, 1943-1963, major, 1943-1946. Fellow Royal College Surgeons (England)(photographic exhibition Welcome Museum 1973-1983). Member Medical Association South Africa (life), South African Orthopaedics Association (honorary life, president 1967-1969), South African College Medicine (associate founder 1963, board examiners, life), British Orthopaedics Association (Overseas fellow since 1952), Scoliosis Research Society North America (honorary life), International Society for Study of Lumbar Spine (founder 1974, life), South African Spine Society (founder, life), Professional and Business Club of South Africa.
Married Agnes Kathleen Thompson, March 19, 1941 (deceased 1991). Children: Dorothy Mary, Maureen Helen, Iain George, Freya Noelle.