Donald Duffy

Donald Grant Duffy (1915 to 1995) was an Australian medical doctor born in Mourilyan, Queensland, who studied medicine at the University of Melbourne and graduated in 1938. He served as a regimental medical officer in the Second World War, including on the Kokoda Track campaign, and was mentioned in dispatches. After a Nuffield Dominion Travelling Fellowship in London he returned to Melbourne and worked at the Alfred, Austin and Heidelberg Repatriation hospitals and at the Baker Medical Research Institute, where his research concerned hypertension and renal disease. He became Dean of the Clinical School at the Alfred Hospital, helped obtain the hospital's first commercially built renal dialysis unit, and helped create the Spinal Unit at the Austin Hospital. He was later president of the Melbourne Football Club.