Distinctions

First Australian awarded honorary Fellowship or Membership of the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the American Society of Thoracic Surgeons

First Australian professor of cardiac surgery

Visiting Fellow of the British Heart Foundation, at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London, 1971

Foundation Head, Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, The Prince Of Wales Children's Hospital, Sydney, 1985

Established cardiac tissue bank in NSW, 1984

Foundation chairman, Sydney Cardio-thoracic Surgical Society

Trained 12 cardio-thoracic surgeons now in practice worldwide

First cardiac consultancies to children of Mauritius and Pacific Islands

He has published more than 100 articles on surgical topics and made 120 presentations at national and international meetings. He has also contributed to, or written, three books on congenital heart surgery (referencing available).

Original contributions have been made in new techniques of complex congenital heart surgery, the development of clot-resistant vascular surfaces, extra-cranial arterial surgery, deep hypothermic perfusion and arrest, membrane oxygenation and computerised post-operative monitoring.