Biography

John Wright spent three years in government service before studying Medicine at the University of Sydney in 1949. He graduated with honours in 1955 and was appointed professorial resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, where he remained until 1960 as senior surgical registrar and surgical superintendent. He was surgical tutor to three student colleges and gained surgical Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1959.

He studied surgery of the chest and heart in Sydney and then as senior registrar in Liverpool, England, and as Fellows of Stanford University and the University of Michigan in the United States. He returned to The Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals, Sydney, in late 1963 as a specialist cardio-thoracic surgeon. He held nine consultant surgical posts in Sydney and NSW country hospitals.

He was chairman of department at those hospitals and associate professor of surgery at the University of New South Wales for 20 years. He was appointed foundation head of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery at the Prince of Wales Children's Hospital in Sydney in 1985.

Happy babies after surgery