returned to Australia where he specialised in Vascular surgery and was a pioneer in transplantation surgery. He was appointed Professor of Transplant Surgery at Sydney University and formed part of the Sydney University Renal Transplant Group, which in 1967 embarked on a community based cadaveric renal transplant program for NSW (Sheil, Stewart, Johnson et al. 1969). He headed the Transplantation Unit at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and became head of the Australian National Liver Transplant Unit, and in fact carried out the first liver transplant in NSW. He is now Emeritus Professor. He was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia General division (AO) 1992 for services to surgery particularly clinical and research transplantation References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players 1933 births Living people Officers of the Order of Australia Rugby union fly-halves Rugby union players from Melbourne 20th-century Australian medical doctors University of Queensland alumni People educated at the Southport School Australian Rhodes Scholars Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons Australian surgeons University of Sydney faculty