New South Wales before completing a higher Doctorate in Medicine and becoming the Overseas Life Insurance Medical Research Fellow of Australia and New Zealand. He was a researcher of the neural control of the heart and lung circulations, training further during 1968 at the University of Gothenburg Sweden, and in 1969 at the University of California, San Diego. On returning to Australia in 1970 he became the Chapman Fellow in Cardiology at the University of Sydney. He later moved to the new medical school at Flinders University in South Australia, where he coached for one season the Flinders University rugby team to a Grand Final. Finally in 1976, he took the Foundation Chair of Human Physiology at the new medical school at the University of Newcastle, where he helped create the medical students' rugby team to play against his alma mater Sydney University medical students each year. In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours White was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to medicine and to medical education, particularly through the planning and development of innovative curriculum, as a researcher in the field of human physiology, and to the Hunter Valley community". External links Sydney Uni Wallabies Remember Australian Rugby of the 50s and 60s; Theo Clark Media; YouTube. References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players 1934 births Living people Members of the Order of Australia Rugby union centres Rugby union players from Sydney