Dame Joyce Margaretta Daws DBE FRCS FRACS FAMA (21 July 1925 – 13 June 2007) was an Australian-based British doctor who specialised in thoracic surgery at various hospitals for over twenty years, primarily in Melbourne.
[2][1] During the second world war, Daws enrolled to study at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, receiving her MBBS in 1949.
[2] In 1952, she was awarded a post-graduate scholarship to study surgery, and she passed the exams to be a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
[2] Daws worked at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in the UK until Lorna Verdun Sisely visited the hospital on her trip to gain surgical knowledge of the latest techniques and technology, and to recruited Daws to work at the Queen Victoria Medical Centre.
[5] She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 14 June 1975 "for her services to medicine".