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Cahill, John Terence (1918 - 2001)

OBE, FRCP, FRACP
 
Physician
Born: 18 April 1918  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.  Died: 17 February 2001  Melbourne.
John Terence Cahill worked at Victoria's St Vincent's Hospital for over forty years. He first joined the hospital in 1941 and left in 1943 for war service. He returned to St Vincent’s in 1950 and even though he officially retired in 1983 he continued on as a Consultant Physician. Cahill also managed to fit in a number of other roles outside of the hospital including Clinical Instructor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, Commonwealth medical referee for compensation cases and chief medical officer for a number of international life insurance companies. He also ran a very successful private practice until the mid 1990s and became the "physician's physician" as many of his peers specifically sought his help when they became ill. John Cahill received many awards and honours for his contribution to medicine including being appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS), a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Career Highlights

Chronology
1940Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne
1941 - 1942Intern at St Vincent's Hospital in Fitzroy, Victoria
1942 - 1943Registrar at St Vincent's Hospital
1946Doctor of Medicine (MD) completed at the University of Melbourne
c. 1947 - c. 1949Postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom
1950 - Clinical Instructor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne
1950 - 1965Honorary Physician to Out-patients at St Vincent's Hospital
1953 - Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
1965 - 1983Physician to outpatients at St Vincent's Hospital
1968Chairman of the senior medical staff at St Vincent's Hospital
1970 - Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS)
1971Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
1975 - 1977Chairman of the division of medicine at St Vincent's
1983 - Consultant Physician to St Vincent's Hospital
1995Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

 

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