Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsSurgeonsGenderMaleHistoryHayward was the first to practice in Australia purely as a thoracic surgeon. Born in Brunswick, Melbourne, John Isaac Hayward was dux of University High School at the age of 17. As a medical student he won first-class honours in all subjects throughout his course (apart from a second-class honour, including the exhibition, in chemistry in his first year) following the award of a full Government Scholarship to Melbourne University in 1928. In 1936 and 37 he became a Junior Lecturer in the Pathology School, and was awarded the Beany Scholarship.
In 1938 Hayward travelled to England to train at London's Brompton Hospital for 18 months under JEH Roberts and Lord Brock. On the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Australian Army Medical Corps and served in the Middle East, Australia, Moratai and New Guinea, being discharged in 1946 with the rank of major.
He was then appointed the first honorary thoracic surgeon to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in association with Benjamin Rank in plastic surgery, and Reginald Hooper in neurosurgery - a distinguished pioneering trio. Haward was expert in closed cardiac surgery, mainly restoring narrowed mitral valves to normal calibre. Open-heart surgery, with the use of Gibbon's heart/lung bypass pump, was in its infancy. He worked hard to get this going with the limited financial resources made available to him, but kept somewhat in the background, allowing younger men to develop the techniques. After 20 years of honorary service at the Royal Melbourne, he was forced to retire, under a prevailing bylaw, at the age of 56. He was also thoracic surgeon at several other Melbourne hospitals and continued to operate until he turned 65. He continued to give valued service as a consultant to the Repatriation Department.
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