Background
McDermott, Francis Thomas was born on September 30, 1931 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Son of Thomas and Mary Louisa (Casey) McD.
researcher Surgeon medical educator
McDermott, Francis Thomas was born on September 30, 1931 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Son of Thomas and Mary Louisa (Casey) McD.
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, U. Melbourne, 1955; Doctor of Medicine, Monash U., Melbourne, Australia, 1975; certified, Medical Practitioners' Board, Victoria, Australia, 1995-1996.
Resident medical officer, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, 1956-1958; surgical registrar, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, England, 1960-1961; surgical registrar, Ipswich & East Suffolk Hospital, England, 1961-1963; senior lecturer department surgery, Alfred Hospital-Monash U., Melbourne, 1967-1979; clinical associate professor, Alfred Hospital-Monash U., Melbourne, 1979-1993; associate professor, Alfred Hospital-Monash U., Melbourne, since 1994; surgeon, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, since 1980; associate Accident Research Center,, Monash U., Melbourne, since 1987. Co-chair Consultative Committee on Road Traffic Fatalities in Victoria, since 1992. Member of advisory panel Transport Accident commission, Melbourne, since 1987;member New Road Safety Countermeasures and Initiatives Consultative committee VicRoads, since 1990, member Victorian WorkCare Authority medical panels, since 1992.
Fellow Royal College of Surgeons of England (Hunterian Professorship 1978, 94), American College of Surgeons, Royal Australian College of Surgeons (certified Early Management of Severe Trauma, chair Victorian Road Trauma committee since 1992, member American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Australian Medical Association, Medico-Legal Society of Victoria, Clinical Oncological Society of Australia.
Married Mary Sophia Howell, October 4,1961. Children: Paul Howell, Jane Sophia, David Stephen Francis.