Major-General John Pearn is a senior paediatrician and historian based at the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane. He is a former Surgeon General of the Australian Defence Force, and sometime Deputy Head and Acting Head of the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Queensland. He has a lifelong professional commitment to history and heritage; and is the author of more than 100 research articles, 15 books and 30 book chapters in the fields of health and heritage as these relate to medicine, biography and military history. He is a founder, later National President and currently Honorary Life Member of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine. He is a Member of the Commitee of Management of the International Society of the History of Medicine; and a Gold Medallist of the American Biographical Institute and (for his services to medicine, history and medical ethics), an Honorary Visiting Fellow of Green College, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Skills and services offered:
Consulting in Medical history
Consulting in Military history
Professional interests:
Medical history
Military history
Biographies
Local history
Numismatics and Philately
Qualifications: MD, PhD, BSc
Publications and experience: books include
In the capacity of a surgeon
Milestones of Australian medicine
Watermen of war
Reflections of Ruanda
The science of First Aid (Editor-in-Chief)
Medicine and botany
Medical philately of Australia
Arms and Aesculapius
Address: Professor John Pearn
Professor John Pearn
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health
Royal Children's Hospital
Brisbane Qld 4029
Phone: 07 3365 5323
Fax: 07 3365 5455
Mobile: 0438 188 117
Updated 15 June 2005
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