Richard Cogswell (Tasmania & St Peter’s 1974)
time to teach specialists in training, and my role takes me across the country to our network hospitals including Dubbo, Bathurst and Alice Springs. Beyond teaching, training and clinical duties, I have developed an interest in workplace wellbeing and doctors’ welfare. Our “BPTOK” programme to support doctors in training has attracted international attention, featured in The New York Times, and is part of an ongoing pilot project to change the culture around the workplace in medicine. My wife Kristina (NIH/OxCam, Christchurch, 2005) runs a busy research lab in hypoxia, sleep and cancer at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. Our son Aidan is four years old. Robert O’Neill (Victoria & Brasenose 1961)
My three year appointment as President of the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal expires next March. That prompted some serious thinking about whether to retire or not. I have decided to retire which means that I am not asking for renewal of my appointment and I am also resigning from the NSW District Court. It’s a decision to embrace retirement as the next stage of my life. The MHRT position has been stimulating and engaging. It’s been a great appointment to complete my life in the full time workforce. I still keep a number of voluntary roles and I will see what else might appear. Imre Hunyor (New South Wales & Magdalen 2005) I am now a Cardiologist and Network Director of Physician Training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. My primary sub-specialty is cardiac imaging with a focus on MRI and CT. This has allowed me to keep in touch with my former DPhil supervisor, Stefan Neubauer. I am fortunate to have protected
It is just over fifty-one years since Bob O’Neill returned from a year of service in the Vietnam War. The fiftieth anniversary stimulated several members of Bob’s former battalion, 5 RAR, to write short memoirs, intended mainly for their own family records. Bob, having been asked to check them against his own memory of people and events of 1966-67, was in turn motivated to start work on a full-sized book on that year, written by a team of some thirty battalion members who could write well and whose memories were still keen. The text has now been completed and soon it will begin the publication process. The title will be “Paving the
THE AUSTRALIAN RHODES REVIEW // MICHAELMAS TERM 2018
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