John Horvath | |
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Chief Medical Officer | |
In office September 2003 –2009 | |
Preceded by | Richard Smallwood |
Succeeded by | Jim Bishop |
Personal details | |
Born | John Stephen Horvath |
Nationality | Australian |
Spouse(s) | Professor Diana Horvath AO |
Education | Sydney Medical School of the University of Sydney |
Profession | Medical doctor Independent non-executive director of Crown Resorts |
John Stephen Horvath AO is an Australian medical doctor and the Chief Medical Officer of Australia between 2003 and 2009. [1] [2] As of June 2020 [update] Horvath is Deputy Chairman of Crown Resorts Limited. Horvath is also Group Chief Medical Officer of Ramsay Health Care and a Director of the Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation and the Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation. [2]
Horvath's parents,Stephen and Ann,emigrated in 1948 when John was 4 to escape the Communist takeover of Hungary. [3]
Horvath graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Medicine,Bachelor of Surgery in 1968. [4]
Horvath practiced for 30 years at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney,including as director of renal and transplant services between 1997 and 2003. [5] [6] He is distinguished as having been the late Kerry Packer's nephrologist and was instrumental to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital's profile as a kidney-transplantation facility.
Horvath was also deputy chair of the World Health Organization's international cancer research institute in Lyon in France. [5]
Horvath served as the Chief Medical Officer of Australia and chaired the National Influenza Pandemic Action Committee. In planning Australia's response to a flu pandemic,Horvath said,alluding to measures that have been used in the years since his tenure as the Chief Medical Officer,"There's lots of things we could do before border closures:alerts,screening,being aware one of our neighbouring countries has a high-level alert …then there's the no-brainers:we want to make it socially unacceptable to go to work coughing,spluttering,infecting the entire staff. In Japan,it's regarded as very bad manners". [3]
Horvath was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2001 Australia Day Honours for "service to medicine,particularly in the field of hypertension,as a consultant physician and a clinical tutor of medicine,and to medical administration.". [7]
Horvath is married to his classmate Professor Diana Horvath. After graduation and 3 years' practice as junior doctors in Sydney,the two worked together for 2 years at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland in the United States before returning to Australia. [8]
The Horvaths have two children,one of whom,Lisa,is a medical oncologist at the Chris O'Brien Lifehouse near the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and a graduate of the Horvath's alma mater,the University of Sydney; [9] another,Penny,is an arts/law graduate of the Australian National University. [10]
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For service to medicine, particularly in the field of hypertension, as a consultant physician and a clinical tutor of medicine, and to medical administration