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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
John Weeks was born in Mackay, Queensland in 1943, the son of John W.N. Weeks, a stockman and Edna May (nee Harvey). He graduated in medicine from the University of Queensland in 1967. He gained his Australasian Felllowship in Anaesthesia in 1972 and worked as a Senior Registrar and Consultant in the Intensive Care Unit at Royal Perth Hospital from 1972 to 1978. In 1978 he was appointed Director of Anaesthesia at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane. Returning to Perth In 1982 he was appointed Consultant Intensivist at the Royal Perth Hospital, a post he held until January 2003 when he retired. John was Chairman of the Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Review Group at the Royal Perth Hospital. He was a member of the Trauma Mortality Review Group and the Blood Transfusion Sub-Committee. He contributed a chapter on overdose and poisoning in the Intensive Care Manual, and a paper on Brain Death Clinical Examination in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. In 1968 he married Maria Alicia (nee Rodney) a psychiatrist and they have two daughters one of whom is a veterinary surgeon. Highlights of his career include being an Examiner in the Final Fellowship Examination in Intensive Care from 1983 to 1992, helping to introduce echocardiography into Intensive Care and participation in establishing Intensive Care as a Specialty in its own right. John retired in January 2003 and looks forward to spending time with his family and fishing. |
