Draft:John Kevan Healy

Medical Career
Profession - Medical practitioner

Field - Nephrologis t, Renal Physician and Researcher

Work institutions:

Honorary Position Significant Awards:
 * 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
 * Chairman of the hospital's Medical Advisory Committee and an ex-officio Member of the Wesley Hospital Board


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

Specialisations:

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

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.