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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Arthur Brian Vivian was born in Albany in 1925, the son of Alfred Ernest Vivian, a general practitioner, and Lilian Ellen nee Newman. After schooling in Perth he studied medicine in Adelaide and graduated MB BS in 1950. Following resident and registpointments at the Royal Adelaide Hospital he went to England and was Senior House Officer at the Royal Northern Hospital, then Surgical Registrar to Mr W.W. Davey at the Whittington Hospital until 1957. In that year he became Registrar to Professor L.N. Pyrah of Leeds a pioneer in the development of Science in the practice of Surgery. A year as Resident Surgical Officer at St Mark's Hospital for rectal diseases followed and in 1959 he returned to Australia where he began a long career at the Royal Perth Herth Hospital. Soon after his return he was appointed an Assistant to the Professor of Surgery and was subsequently a Reader and Associate Professor. Brian was a very competent General Surgeon and his forte was in teaching. Many undergraduates learnt the art of surgery from him and trainee surgeons learnt surgical practice by example at the bedside and by his patiently assisting them in the operating theatre. He had the misfortune to be dogged by serious disability in the last few years of his life, he accepted with great courage. He continued to the end in his role of teacher and guide. Brian gave much of his spare time to the committees of the hospital but he was also a keen golfer, playing at Lake Karinyup, and a supporter of Cottesloe Life Saving Club. He was very much a family man and in this he received great support from his wife Marie nee Bridges who was a trained nurse. He had three sons one of whom Justin, graduated in medicine in 1990 at the University of Western Australia. |
