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Harry Windsor (surgeon)
Dr Henry Windsor (27 October 1914 – 20 March 1987) was an Irish-born Australian cardiac surgeon. He trained at Queensland University and then the University of Sydney, gaining second-class honours in medicine and graduating in 1939 with a Bachelor of Medicine.
He worked at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney for numerous years and pioneered several surgical procedures in Australia. In 1968 he carried out Australia's first heart transplant.[1] He was a mentor to renowned heart surgeon Victor Chang.[2]
Windsor served as a doctor during World War II with the Australian Army Medical Corps of the Citizen Military Forces, and then with the Australian Imperial Force. He served mostly in New Guinea, achieving the temporary rank of Major. After the war he returned to work again at St Vincent's Hospital.
- ^ WINDSOR, HARRY M J The University of Sydney, NSW. On-Line Museum
- ^ Windsor, Henry Matthew John (Harry) (1914–1987). John Carmody, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 18, (MUP), 2012. Australian National University
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