Person

Cahill, John Terence (1918 - 2001)

OBE FRCP FRACP

Born
18 April 1918
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
17 February 2001
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Physician

Summary

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).

Details

Chronology

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

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