June Louise Howqua

June Louise Howqua (4 June 1921 – 8 June 2009) was an Australian medical doctor who specialised in cardiology and thoracic medicine.

Life and career Howqua was born in 1921 in Melbourne to Albert Henry Howqua, a financial adviser to the government, and Lillie Eileen (née Currie). She attended Melbourne Girls Grammar before studying medicine at the University of Melbourne. After graduating in 1944, she began her career at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. In the 1950s, she took a job as a ship doctor as a means to travel to London, where she took up a position at the Brompton Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. She returned to Melbourne in the early 1960s and began working at the Queen Victoria Hospital, a women's hospital where she would eventually establish a specialised coronary care unit.