Peter maccallum biography book

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The family returned to New Zealand in his youth and he was raised in Christchurch , his father's home town. He was sent to work at the age of He was able to return to school and continued his entire education through a series of scholarships and part-time work, including working his way back to the United Kingdom as a coal trimmer. In , he was badly gassed, and perhaps it was a result of ill health that his postwar career concentrated on pathology and research.

In , he was appointed to the Chair of Pathology at the University of Melbourne. In , he was appointed to the royal commission into the Bundaberg tragedy , chaired by Charles Kellaway , which concluded that a diphtheria vaccine manufactured by Commonwealth Serum Laboratories had been contaminated with Staph. In he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

In the Second World War he served at the rank of Lieutenant colonel as the Director of Pathology to the Australian Army Medical Corps and from was the chief co-ordinator of Australian medical personnel. As Chairman of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria from to , [ 2 ] he was influential in the formation of the Victorian Cancer Institute in The first outpatient clinic opened in bore his name and the Institute was renamed as the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute - "The Peter Mac" - in his honour in He believed that nothing but the best was good enough in the treatment of cancer.

The Peter Mac is living testimony to his belief.