Person

Clerehan, Brian (1918 - 2001)

FRACP

Born
10 December 1918
Died
20 January 2001
Occupation
Physician and Military doctor

Summary

Brian Clerehan was instrumental in combating tuberculosis in Australia. He concurrently served as a civilian and military physician for well over thirty years. In 1943 he joined the Medical Corps of the Australian Army and continued with the Citizens Military Force after the war. During this time he was promoted from Captain to Colonel and served as staff officer and military history instructor with the Command and Staff Training Unit. After the war Clerehan held successive posts at the Royal Children's Hospital, St Vincent's Hospital, the Greenvale Sanatorium and the Heatherton Sanatorium. He also concurrently worked with the Victorian Tuberculosis Department, Department of Health. In 1952 Clerehan received a World Health Organisation scholarship to study tuberculosis management overseas. While at Heatherton he introduced new anti- tuberculosis drugs and better surgical procedures and chest X-rays, becoming an expert in interpreting these X-rays. All this helped to see a steady reduction in the new tuberculosis cases and better outcomes for sufferers. In 1976 he joined St Vincent's once again treating patients and training medical students and nurses. He eventually retired from St Vincent's, the Department of Health and the Command and Staff Training Unit in 1987.

Details

Chronology

1942
Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Melbourne
1942 - 1943
Career position - Resident Medical Officer at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne
1943 - 1945
Military service - War service with the Army Medical Corps
c. 1945 - c. 1949
Career position - Physician at the Royal Children's Hospital, St Vincent's Hospital and then the Greenvale Sanatorium in Victoria
c. 1947 - 1987
Career position - Joined the Tuberculosis Department of the Victorian Department of Health
1949 - 1956
Career position - Superintendent at the Heatherton Sanatorium
1952
Award - World Health Organisation funded studies in Scandinavia, Switzerland and at the Brompton Chest Clinic in England
1956
Career position - Member of the Central Health Department Chest Survey
1970
Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
1976 - 1987
Career position - Physician and lecturer at St Vincent's Hospital

Published resources

Book Sections

  • Clerehan, Brian, 'Burston, Sir Samuel Roy (1888-1960), physician and army officer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 314-315. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130354b.htm. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

Annette Alafaci

EOAS ID: biogs/P004802b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004802b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260