Dr John E. Frawley (NSW)

Dr John E. Frawley (NSW)

Dr John E. Frawley (NSW)

Lifetime Achievement Award for Introduction and Post-graduate Teaching of Vascular Ultrasound in Australasia

John Frawley’s career in Vascular Surgery spans 42 years beginning in Perth WA in 1965 as Professional Surgical Registrar in the University Department of Surgery where he was involved in experimental kidney transplant surgery in dogs culminating in participation in the first kidney transplant in WA in 1967. In the following year as registrar at the Master Misericordiae Hospital in Brisbane he was introduced to venous surgery by Dr Bill Campbell who has established Australia’s first vein sclerotherapy clinic. In the UK he worked with Mr Peter Martin (1967-70) as senior registrar gaining a wide experience in arterial reconstructive surgery and at St Mary’s Hospital University of London as Lecturer in Surgery with Professor W.T. Irvine where he gained experience in the world’s first Doppler diagnostic laboratory established by Dr James Yao. After appointment as specialist vascular and transplant surgeon at Prince Henry and Price of Wales Hospitals in Sydney (1971-2007) Dr Frawley established the first Vasuclar Diagnostic Laboratory in Australia and a vein sclerotherapy clinic at Prince of Wales Hospital. He has filled appointments in vascular surgery at St Vincent’s Private Hospital, Sydney Adventist Hospital, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, and in transplant surgery at Concord Hospital and Sydney Children’s Hospital. He has served as Chairman and Head of Department of Vascular and Transplant Surgery at Prince of Wales Hospital for the last 22 years. After a number of original contributions to vascular and transplantation, CVP monitoring and a number of new surgical techniques both nationally and internationally, Dr Frawley was honoured by investiture in the Order of Australia (2006) for service to Medicine in Vascular and Transplantation Surgery as a pioneer in paediatric kidney transplantation.