Eveleen O'Brien
Irish physician
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| Intro | Irish physician | |
| Places | Ireland | |
| was | Physician | |
| Work field | Healthcare | |
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| Birth | 1901 | |
| Death | 1981 (aged 80 years) |
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Biography
Eveleen O'Brien MD (1901 – 31 July 1981) was an Irish psychiatrist.
Life
Eveleen O'Brien, sometimes recorded as Evelyn O'Brien, was born in 1901 in Tubbercurry, County Sligo. She studied medicine in University College Dublin. Between 1933 and 1966, O'Brien worked in Grangegorman Mental Hospital, going on to be become governor of the Central Mental Hospital, Dundrum in January 1968. O'Brien published consistently throughout her career, including in 1939 with the first systematic review of insulin therapy in Ireland. O'Brien died on 31 July 1981 in her home in Sutton, Dublin. She lived with and is believed to have been in a relationship with Helena Molony, until Molony's death in 1967.