Mercy Sadka
Singapore-born neurologist
Marie Sadka (22 July 1923 – 28 January 2001) was a Singapore-born neurologist who spent most of her career in Western Australia. Better known as Mercy Sadka, she was Australia's first female neurologist.
Early life and education
Sadka was born in Singapore on 22 July 1923. She was the second daughter of Sassoon Samuel Sadka and his wife, Sarah who were of Jewish heritage. Her older sister Emily Sadka (1920–1968) was an historian. She educated at Raffles Girls School and later Cheltenham Ladies College in England. She graduated from the University of Oxford in 1947 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery.
Career
Sadka moved to Australia in 1948 as resident medical officer at the Royal Perth Hospital (RPH). She worked with ophthalmologist Ida Mann on a study of blindness among Indigenous Australians in the Kimberley.
Postgraduate studies in neurology took her to London and Boston, where she worked at Massachusetts General Hospital with Raymond Adams, Miller Fisher and Robert Schwab.
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