Born Hastings 24/1/1922    Died Hastings 10/7/2003

Educated at Wellington College

MB ChB (NZ) 1945, FRCS (Eng) 1949, FRACS 1957

HS / HP, Palmerston North Hospital 1946 - 1947
Surgical Registrar, Palmerston North Hospital 1948

RSO / Surgical Registrar, Essex County Hospital, Colchester Jan 1950 - Mar 1951
RSO / Surgical Registrar, Brompton Hospital, London May 1951 - Aug 1952 (Sir Russell Brock and Mr O S Tubbs)

Appointed Wellington Hospital's first full-time Thoracic Surgeon Nov 1952
Established surgery for congenital heart disease and for mitral valvotomy
Study leave 1960 (6 months) to multiple centres in England and in the USA

Headed the 2nd National Cardiac Surgery Unit at Wellington Hospital, when it was opened in 1964, and with his colleague, Tim Savage, pioneered cardiopulmonary bypass surgery in Wellington

Retired 31/12/1982

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