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).
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Chronology
- 1940
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the 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) completed at the University of Melbourne
- c. 1947 - c. 1949
- Education - Postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom
- 1950 -
- Career position - Clinical Instructor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne
- 1950 - 1965
- Career position - Honorary Physician to Out-patients at St Vincent's Hospital
- 1953 -
- Award - Fellow of the 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 of the 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
Published resources
Resources
- 'Cahill, John Terence (1918-2001)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475788. Details
Annette Alafaci
Created: 10 October 2006, Last modified: 15 June 2022