Royal Perth Hospital Emeritus Consultant biographies Volume three Contents Thomas Ahern ............................................................................................................................. 3 Nicholas Anastas ......................................................................................................................... 4 Trevor ApSimon ........................................................................................................................... 5 Peter Barnes ................................................................................................................................ 6 Nicholas Batalin ........................................................................................................................... 7 Colin Bayliss ................................................................................................................................ 8 Peter G. Beahan .......................................................................................................................... 9 David Booth ............................................................................................................................... 10 Richard Bruce ............................................................................................................................ 11 Frederick Clark ........................................................................................................................... 12 Geoffrey Clarke .......................................................................................................................... 14 Miles Clarke ............................................................................................................................... 16 Maxwell P. Connor ..................................................................................................................... 17 Neil G. Cumpston ....................................................................................................................... 18 Rowan M. Davidson ................................................................................................................... 20 Michael Down ............................................................................................................................ 21 Deryck J. Eggleston ................................................................................................................... 22 Kenneth Fitch ............................................................................................................................. 23 Richard Fox ................................................................................................................................ 24 Pek Goh ..................................................................................................................................... 25 Donald Golinger ......................................................................................................................... 26 Harry Hansen-Knarhoi ............................................................................................................... 27 Arthur R. Harris .......................................................................................................................... 28 John Hill ..................................................................................................................................... 29 John Kagi ................................................................................................................................... 30 Henry T. Kelsall .......................................................................................................................... 31 George Kubacz .......................................................................................................................... 32 Michael Lawrence-Brown .......................................................................................................... 33 Kenneth MacKenzie ................................................................................................................... 34 Hamish Macmillan ...................................................................................................................... 35 John Masarei ............................................................................................................................. 36 Vincent McCann ......................................................................................................................... 37 Robert McWilliam ....................................................................................................................... 38 William Merrick ........................................................................................................................... 39 Peter Packer .............................................................................................................................. 40 Anil Patel .................................................................................................................................... 41 Robert Paton .............................................................................................................................. 42 Charles Price ............................................................................................................................. 43 Harry Reef .................................................................................................................................. 44 Bruno Ricci ................................................................................................................................. 45 Ross Robinson ........................................................................................................................... 46 Archibald J. Simpson ................................................................................................................. 47 Paul W. Skerritt .......................................................................................................................... 48 Brian Smith................................................................................................................................. 49 Hector Stewart ........................................................................................................................... 50 Ted Stewart-Wynne ................................................................................................................... 51 Bryant A. Stokes ........................................................................................................................ 52 Marx Wald .................................................................................................................................. 53 John Weeks ............................................................................................................................... 54 John G. Wheeler ........................................................................................................................ 55 Thomas Ahern University of Melbourne MB BS (Melbourne) 1942 DLO (MELB) 1948 Honorary Consultant ENT Surgeon Tom Ahern was born in 1919 the third of five children of Thomas and Nora Ahern who were the founders of Ahern's Department Store. Tom was educated at Mary's Mount Kalamunda and then Christian Brothers College in St Georges Terrace. He graduated in Medicine in Melbourne in 1942 and then completed his specialist qualifications there. He met his wife Irene Savage, then a nurse in Bruce Rock Hospital and later commenced specialist practice in Perth. He is remembered fondly as a congenial and interested teacher. His own hearing impairment gave him great empathy with his patients. His interests included care of those at Bindoon Boys' Town and the Claremont Football Club. Tom showed sporting prowess in tennis, squash, golf and cricket plus he was an ardent follower of the Sport of Kings but also a nature lover and was particularly interested in wildflowers and native birds. His professional career was cruelly and prematurely terminated by a major dominant hemisphere stroke. Tom and his wife had seven children including Tom junior who became a veterinary surgeon and Denis a physiotherapist. Tom Ahern died of cancer in March 1981 but will be remembered as an archetypical specialist consultant of the post World War II period before the present era of immediate focus on specialization after graduation. Nicholas Anastas University of Sydney MB BS Hons (Sydney) 1959 FRCS (Edin) 1965 FRACS 1967 Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Nicholas Anastas was born in Fremantle in June 1933 the son of Constantine Nicholas Anastas, greengrocer and Mary (nee) Kanganas. He studied medicine at the University of Sydney qualifying MB BS with honours in 1959. He was a junior Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital from 1960-61 and Senior General Resident Medical Officer at that hospital 1961-62. Nick joined the Royal Perth Hospital staff as a General Surgical Registrar 1962-64. He obtained his FRCS(Edin) in 1965 and was appointed Senior Orthopaedic Registrar 1965-67. Nick was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Royal Perth Hospital and the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in 1968. Nick Anastas performed the first Harrington's instrumentation for scoliosis in Western Australia and was early in the field of developing expertise in lower limb joint arthroplasty. He was co-author of a paper