Frank Athol Shann

Background

Shann, Frank Athol was born on October 25, 1944 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Son of Frank and Enid Isabell Shann.

Education

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Science, U. Melbourne, 1968; Doctor of Medicine, U. Melbourne, 1985.

Career

Junior resident, Wangaratta Hospital, Victoria, 1969; senior resident, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, 1970; medical registrar, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, 1971-1972; house officer, Nairobi (Kenya) Hospital, 1973; medical registrar, Royal Children's Hospital, Victoria, 1974-1976; staff specialist, Royal Children's Hospital, Victoria, 1982-1984; director intensive care, Royal Children's Hospital, Victoria, since 1986; professor critical care medicine, U. Melbourne, since 1995; specialist paediatrician, Goroka Hospital, Papua New Guinea, 1977-1981; senior lecturer, U. Melbourne, 1985-1986. Member international advisory board The Lancet. Member expert advisory panel on acute respiratory infections World Health Organization.

Achievements

• Frank Athol Shann has been listed as a noteworthy Paediatrician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Royal Australasian College Physicians (Susman prize for medical research 1986), Royal Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Member Australian College Paediatrics (Howard Williams medal 1989), Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society, Australian Medical Association, Australasian Society Infectious Diseases.

Interests

• Avocations: reading, computers, tennis.

Connections

Married Angela Helen Mackenzie, June 30, 1980. Children: Helen Mackenzie, Alice Mackenzie, Frank Mackenzie.

Father:

Frank Shann

Mother:

Enid Isabell Shann

Spouse:

Angela Helen Mackenzie

child:

Helen Mackenzie Shann

child:

Frank Mackenzie Shann

child:

Alice Mackenzie Shann