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Under the College’s Constitution, adopted in 2010, Clause 2.4.1 states that:
“The Council may elect as Honorary Fellows distinguished members of the medical profession and other eminent persons, whether or not those eminent persons are members of the medical profession.”
The purpose of the Honorary Fellowship award is to recognise significant work of eminent individuals in any field, but particularly to acknowledge substantial contributions to surgery in Australia or Aotearoa New Zealand. Honorary Fellowship cannot be awarded to a Fellow of the College.
Nomination to Honorary Fellowship shall be made in writing and shall contain biographical details of the nominee and information on appointments, membership of learned societies (and office held), and a list of publications.
Honorary Fellowship recipients
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2020s
2025 - Valerie Lund
2025 - David J Howard
2025 - Sashi Kumar
2024 - Herbert Chen
2024 - Christopher Forrest
2024 - Ajit K. Sachdeva
2023 - Ikau Kevau
2022 - Deborah Paltridge
2022 - Lesley Dunstall
2022 - George Youngson
2021 - Jeffrey Gershenwald
2021 - Dianne Cornish
2010s
2019 - David B Hoyt
2019 - S. Michael Griffin
2019 - Tony Lewis
2019 - Garry M Wilson KStJ
2018 - Papaarangi Reid
2018 - Margaret Rode
2016 - Justine Peterson
2015 - Charles Balch
2015 - Joseph Gruss
2015 - Clare Marx
2015 - Norman Eizenberg
2014 - Timothy Pawlik
2014 - Ian Ritchie
2013 - Iain Anderson
2013 - David Hillis
2012 - Brent Eastman
2012 - Beverley Lindley
2012 - Anthony Mundy
2011 - Robert Sutherland
2011 - Nopadol Wora-Urai
2011 - SK Lum
2011 - Brian Randall
2010 - Geoffrey Davies
2000s
2009 - Erwin Thal
2008 - Michael Gleeson
2007 - Mitchell James Notaras
2006 - Franklin Sim
2006 - Patrick Bradley
2006 - James Garden
2005 - John Smith
2005 - Stewart Hamilton
2005 - Santhat Nivatvongs
2005 - Patrick Gullane
2004 - Ernest Weymuller
2004 - Mitchell Notaras
2003 - Joseph Lau
2002 - William Wei
2002 - John G Temple
2001 - Jatin Shah
2001 - Thongueb Uttarvichien
2000 - Naresh Trehan
1990s
1999 - Barry Jackson
1999 - N Thompson
1998 - Donald Trunkey
1997 - Victor Fazio
1996 - Michael Gorton
1996 - Sir David Carter
1996 - Robert Shields
1995 - Thira Limsila
1995 - Alois Scarli
1995 - Averil Mansfield
1995 - Alexander Walt
1994 - Peter Morris
1994 - Roger Blamey
1994 - Murray Brennan
1994 - Martin Robson
1994 - Norman Leslie Browse
1993 - Raj Mohan Nambiar
1993 - John Phillip Chalmers
1992 - George Eufemio
1992 - Stanley Morton Goldberg
1991 - Donald Richards Wilson
1991 - Johannes Albertus Myburgh
1991 - Ian Thomas Jackson
1991 - Sir Terence Alexander Hawthorne English
1990 - Basil Clifford Morson
1990 - Maurice John Jurkiewicz
1990 - Geoffrey Duncan Chisholm
1990 - Stig Bertil Samuel Bengmark
1980s
1989 - Claude H Organ
1988 - Sir Ian Pelham Todd
1988 - Reginald Arthur Edward Magee
1988 - Thomas Jaffrey McNair
1987 - Raymond Arthur Chapman
1987 - David Coston Sabiston
1987 - Sir Andrew Patrick McEwan Forrest
1987 - Kasarn Chartikavanij
1986 - Denton Arthur Cooley
1985 - Victor Lane
1985 - Joseph E Murray
1985 - Patrick Stewart Boulter
1984 - Geoffrey Slaney
1984 - Eoin O'Malley
1984 - Sir James Fraser
1983 - Tan Sri Guan Been Ong
1982 - Edwin Jack Wylie
1982 - Richard T Turner-Warwick
1982 - Sir Alan Guyatt Parks
1980 - Dietrich Plester
1980 - John Webster Kirklin
1980 - Jean Couture
1980 - William H Muller
1980 - Francis John Gillingham
1970s
1979 - John Ivor Pulsford James
1979 - Joseph Boyes
1979 - Sir Reginald Sydney Murley
1979 - Charles G Drake
1979 - Witold Rudowski
1978 - John Cedric Goligher
1978 - Oliver H Beahrs
1978 - Rupert B Turnbull
1978 - Mark M Ravitch
1978 - Antonio C Oposa
1978 - Harry Hubert Grayson Eastcott
1978 - Datuk Hussein Onn
1977 - Michael Ellis DeBakey
1977 - Bryan Nicholas Brooke
1977 - Frank Cole Spencer
1977 - J Leonard Goldner
1977 - Sir Donald Frederick Norris Harrison
1977 - Barrie Russell Jones
1977 - Ian Alexander McGregor
1977 - Albert Starr
1977 - John Joseph Shea
1977 - George R Dunlop
1977 - Arthur Landau
1977 - Robert Bruce Thomas
1977 - Thomas Gibson
1977 - Stanley Thomas McCollum
1977 - Francis A Duff
1977 - James Alexander Ross
1977 - Andrew Wood Wilkinson
1976 - Mary Taylor Burnell
1976 - Peter Paul Rickham
1976 - Fernando Ortiz-Monasterio
1976 - C Rollins Hanlon
1976 - Frank E Stinchfield
1976 - William H Scott Jnr
1975 - Barbara F Heslop
1975 - Leslie P Le Quesne
1975 - Rodney Smith
1974 - Leslie J Ray
1974 - Michael J Blunt
1974 - Howard P House
1974 - Robert A Chase
1974 - J Englebert Dunphy
1973 - Ross William Hawker
1973 - John Harry Daly
1973 - Lee Kuan Yew
1972 - Neil William George Macintosh
1970 - Jan Hendrik Louw
1960s
1969 - Andrew Watt Kay
1968 - Robert Brash Wright
1968 - Jacques Turcot
1968 - Edward Grainger Muir
1968 - Terence John Millin
1968 - Wilfred Kark
1968 - James Roderick Johnston Cameron
1966 - Sir John Bruce
1965 - Sir Denis Browne
1964 - Frank Rees Magarey
1963 - Sir Robert Gordon Menzies
1962 - Charles William Mayo
1962 - Richard Gardiner Casey
1962 - William Edgar Adams
1961 - Sir Harry Platt
1961 - Hedley John Barnard Atkins
1961 - Sir Arthur Espie Porritt
1950s
1959 - William Cooper Gissane
1959 - Right Honourable Viscount Nuffield
1957 - Sir Geoffrey Jefferson
1957 - Sir Russell Brock
1957 - Sir Stewart Duke-Elder
1957 - Sir James Paterson Ross
1956 - Sir Harold Gillies
1955 - Robert Inkerman Harris
1954 - Sir Arthur Sims
1954 - Sir James Rögnvald Learmonth
1952 - Sydney Sunderland
1952 - Frederick Colin Courtice
1951 - Brian Wellingham Windeyer
1951 - Reginald Watson-Jones
1950 - Oscar Theron Clagett
1940s
1949 - Julian Taylor
1948 - Charles Enrest Hercus
1948 - Sir Hugh William Bell Cairns
1947 - William Heneage Ogilvie
1930s
1939 - Sir Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson
1937 - Cecil Pembrey Grey Walker
1935 - Henry Sessions Souttar
1935 - Ernest William Hey Groves
1935 - Frederic Wood Jones
1935 - Henry Wade
1935 - Charles Frederick Morris Saint
1935 - Sir D'Arcy Power
1935 - Deand de Witt Lewis
1935 - John Fraser
1935 - Donald Church Balfour
1935 - Edward William Archibald
1935 - Sir Holburt Jacob Waring
1934 - Gordon Gordon-Taylor
1932 - Charles Herbert Fagge
1920s
1928 - William Francis Victor Bonney
1928 - Sir John Goodwin
Honorary Fellowship nominations, policy and contact
Please refer to the policy governing the Honorary Fellowship (PDF 110.14KB) award before submitting a nomination. Nominations must meet the criteria outlined in this policy.
Nominations may be mailed to:
Chair of the Awards Committee
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
250-290 Spring Street
EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002
Australia
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +61 3 9276 7404