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| Nationality | Australian | |
| Birth date | 16th January 1939 | |
| Birth place | Adelaide South Australia | |
| Marital Status | Married to Robin Mary Hicks (nee Corden) 1962 |
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| Children | 6 (1adopted Ethiopian)15 Grand children | |
| Education | Primary | One Tree Hill Primary School SA Australia1944-50 |
| Secondary | Adelaide Boys High School SA Australia1951-1955 Dux of class in 2nd Granted a Commonwealth |
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| Tertiary | University of Adelaide Medical SchoolMBBS Obtained 1961 Credit Level |
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| Post graduateFRACS | Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 1967 Position – 2nd in Australia. |
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| FACTM | Fellow of Australian College of Tropical Medicine – 1992 – granted not examined! |
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| Training Course as a basic level laparoscopic surgeon 1991 |
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| EMST (Early Management of Severe Trauma)1998 Instructor Level – 1999 |
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| Honours | 1993 | Queensland Public Hospital Doctor of the Year. |
| 1997 | External Examiner in Surgery (final year) Addis Ababa – Black Lion Hospital |
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| 2004 | Nominated as Australian of Year – an honour in itself but I did not become THE one chosen! |
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| 2011 | Awarded Member of Order of Australia. |
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| 2011 | Honored Guest at Queensland branch of Royal Australasian of College of Surgeons State Scientific Meeting. |
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| Work record | 1962 | First year RMO Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) Woodville SA Australia. |
| 1963 | General Practice Salisbury SA Australia. |
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| 1964 | Surgical Registrar Royal Adelaide Hospital SA Australia |
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| 1965 | Anatomy Demonstrator Monash University VIC. Australia – passed primary FRACS examination. |
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| 1966-67 | Surgical Registrar QEH Woodville SA Australia |
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| End of 1967-68 6 months | A/Professor of Surgery Vellore Christian Medical College Vellore, South India |
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| April 1968 – 71, 1973 | Surgeon Shashemane Leprosarium and General Hospital |
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| 1972 | Senior Surgical and Thoracic Surgical Registrar QEH Woodville SA Australia. |
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| 1974-75 | Private Surgical Practice and Part-time Senior Lecturer in Surgery at QEH SA Australia |
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| 1976-78 | Director of Surgery Townsville General Hospital, Queensland Australia. |
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| 1979-80 | Part time General Surgical Practice Sydney NSW Australia – Deputy then Acting Australian Director of SIM (A missionary society working world wide) |
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| 1981-1991 | Private Surgical Practice and half time Visiting Consultant General and Thoracic Surgeon, TGH Queensland Australia, Part-time Senior Lecturer University of Queensland |
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| 1992-1997 | Surgeon in Ethiopia – initially attached in Black Lion and St Paul’s Hospitals but then re-opening surgical department of Soddo Hospital Wolaitta. |
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| 1998-2003 | Private Surgical Practice, Visiting Surgeon to TGH, Ayr Hospital, Charters Towers Hospital, Bowen Hospital, Queensland Australia. A/Professor of Surgery James Cook University, Townsville Queensland Australia. |
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| 2004 | Retired – teaching EMST courses and with v. limited private practice |
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| 2005-6 | Ethiopia – Surgeon to the Korean Hospital in Addis Ababa 3 sessions consulting/re-viewing patients – 1 session operating; Consultant surgeon to Nazret Hospital/Nazret Ethiopia – 2 sessions consulting/ward work & 2 sessions operating |
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| 2007-2009 | VMO Nambour Hospital, Queensland Australia; small private practice |
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| Sept 2009 & 2010- July 2011 | Associate Professor of Surgery Jimma University, Ethiopia. |
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| Presentations | Incomplete, and from memory, | 1962 – Grand round QEH – rectal pressures in normal patients and those with diverticular disease.in 1970’s 2 papers presented in association with Dr SL Roveda in Facio-maxillary conference in Italy and at NQ medical conference on a) “parotid duct transposition b) “A case of spontaneous In 1980’s Several papers at the Provincial In Ethiopia in the 1990’s at the results in surgical treatment of resection with primary Pattern of surgical disease in a In Australia, at Royal Australasia And in 2011 on ‘Unusual diseases seen in In 2000’s – In Australia Several papers at the Provincial At Ethiopian Surgical Society |
