Draft:John Kevan Healy

• Comment: Still a well written resume. Didn't make remarkable changes suggested by a reviewer. ANU^writes 10:26, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: This reads like Healy's resume not an encyclopaedic article - needs to be properly referenced with inline citations linked to reliable independent secondary sources - see Wikipedia's Guidelines to referencing for beginners.
  It lacks a WP:LEDE, explaining what he is actually notable for. Dan arndt (talk) 08:57, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

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John Kevan Healy MBBS Hons II, FRACP

John Kevan Healy
Born	1933 Sydney, Australia
Education	North Sydney Boys High School, Sydney University (1951 to 1956)
Occupation(s)	Medical practitioner and researcher
Years active	1957 - 2020

Medical Career

Profession - Medical practitioner

Field - Nephrologist, Renal Physician and Researcher

Work institutions:

• Royal North Shore Hospital
• St. Vincent's Hospital
• Sydney Hospital, Kanematsu Institute Dialysis Unit
• Royal Flying Doctor Service, Broken Hill
• Georgetown University Hospital, Washington D.C.
• Princess Alexandra Hospital, LIONS Renal Research Laboratory
• Sydney University, Department of Physiology – Sabbatical leave
• University of Michigan, Department of Physiology – Sabbatical leave
• Private Practice at the Brisbane Clinic, Wickham Terrace, Brisbane
• Wesley Hospital – Visiting Medical Officer
• Royal Brisbane Hospital, Consultant Nephrologist

Honorary Position

• Chairman of the hospital's Medical Advisory Committee and an ex-officio Member of the Wesley Hospital Board

Significant Awards:

• The Emeritus fellowship at the Wesley
• Life member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Specialisations:

• Research into the role of electrolyte transport
• Research into renal failure in Multiple Myeloma

Dr John K. Healy was a pioneer in renal research in Australia. He was the first  Lion's Research Fellow at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. He started the LIONS Renal Research Laboratory in Brisbane in 1966, with additional funding from the National Heart Foundation and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. During his tenure at the Lion’s Renal Research Laboratory, he published internationally recognised articles on renal research and developed a widely accepted kidney function test.

LIONS Renal Research Lab at PA John with Jon Douglas and Rosebelle Graham in 1967

In 1979, at the Wesley Hospital, Dr. Healy performed peritoneal dialysis on several patients with acute renal failure and the first hemodialysis at the Wesley. This experience contributed to the initiation in 1989 of the first private dialysis unit in Brisbane, in conjunction with Dr. Philip Boyle. The Dialysis Unit has expanded over the years to become a very large private chronic Dialysis Unit in Queensland.

Dr. Healy served for some years on the Ethics Committee of the Wesley Hospital. He became Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Wesley Hospital in 1992-3, as he was an ex-officio Member of the Wesley Hospital Board. He was made an Emeritus Fellow of that Hospital in 2003.