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Life Summary

Name	John Shaw
Born	22 December, 1940 Burwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	14 August, 1997 (aged 56) Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Cultural Heritage	English Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Education *	Homebush Boys High school (Sydney) (student, 1953-1957) University of Sydney (medicine) (student, 1958-1965) University of Sydney (medicine) (student, 1969-1975)
Occupation or Descriptor *	physician (1965-1971) New South Wales, Australia academic (1972-1978) Victoria, Australia physician (1972-1974) Overseas clinical pharmacologist (1974-1978) Victoria, Australia physician (1974-1979) Victoria, Australia academic (1979-1991) New South Wales, Australia clinical pharmacologist (1979-1997) New South Wales, Australia physician (1979-1997) New South Wales, Australia
Key Organisations *	Royal Australasian College of Physicians (member, 1968) National Heart Foundation (federal) (research fellow, 1969-1974) Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (council member, 1974-1984) Royal Australasian College of Physicians (fellow, 1974) Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (president, 1981) Kindergarten Union of New South Wales (director, 1981-1986) Australasian Medical Publishing Company (director, 1983-1989) Royal North Shore Hospital (Sydney) (director, 1983-1986) Australasian Medical Publishing Company (chairman, 1988-1989)
Workplaces *	Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (Sydney) (resident medical officer, 1965-1967) Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (Sydney) (registrar, 1968-1969) The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (research fellow, 1971-1972) St Mary's Hospital (London) (research fellow, 1972-1974) Royal Melbourne Hospital (physician, 1974-1979) University of Melbourne (medicine) (employee, 1974-1979) Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (Sydney) (specialist, 1979-1997) University of Sydney (medicine) (professor, 1979-1991) Concord Repatriation General Hospital (Sydney) (visiting medical officer, 1980-1997) Royal North Shore Hospital (Sydney) (consultant, 1981-1997) Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children (Sydney) (consultant, 1983-1997) National Heart Foundation (federal) (director, 1991-1992) Merck Sharp & Dohme (Australia) Pty Ltd (medical director, 1994-1997)

* Dates are approximate