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Along with his volunteer work in China and many other countries, respect and admiration for Darryl is worldwide.
As president, Darryl set up the life membership awards “to acknowledge dedicated leaders within our college and hence profession”, and fittingly was awarded this honor in 2014
Darryl has been a larger than life contributor to perfusion and for many years was the driving force of
the college. This only covers a snippet of what Darryl achieved and did over his illustrious career.
On behalf of the ANZCP we and thank him for the enormous input into our profession and wish him a well- deserved, happy retirement with Kerry, family and the joys of being a grandfather, with his grandson August.
JAMES MCMILLAN CCP, FANZCP (RETIRED)
James retired form clinical perfusion practice at the end of 2022 after 52 years in the field.
James started his perfusion career as a trainee perfusionist at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne in 1970, graduating in 1972.
He then worked at the Alfred until 1984, when he left for a short period with the then Cobe Laboratories in Melbourne (which later became Cellplex, then eventually LivaNova).
In early 1985 James was invited to establish the Perfusion Unit at Cabrini Hospital in Melbourne. In order to affect this James established Perfusion Services Pty Ltd. This company then provided the perfusion requirements for Cabrini until the end of 2022, some 16,000+ bypass procedures, 5,000 cell save procedures, and numerous ECMO and IABP procedures.
In 1990 Perfusion Services were asked to establish the Perfusion Unit for Monash Health, also in Melbourne, and ran that unit until mid-2022. During this time, a similar further number of bypass procedures, cell saving, etc., were performed.
In 1994 Perfusion Services were asked to establish the Perfusion Unit for Townsville General Hospital, in far north Queensland, and ran that unit for 6 years.
Perfusion Services was also, for many years, the primary ECMO and IABP initiation and retrieval group on-call for Ambulance Victoria, then Adult Retrieval Victoria. They performed many ECMO initiations in far-flung regional primary care facilities, both in Victoria and interstate, transporting back to tertiary institutions in Melbourne, by road and various aircraft. Indeed, their first ECMO was performed in 1987 in the ICU at Prince Henry’s Hospital in Melbourne, a non-cardiac hospital.
Perfusion Services also provided cell-saving at over 50 hospitals.
More importantly than this set of enormous numbers of cases performed, James was responsible for the training, or part training, of some 25 Australasian Board certified perfusionists. Most of whom still work in Australasia, and many of whom are now in senior positions in perfusion.
James also led a constant drive for research in perfusion, particularly for students, with Perfusion Services staff presenting at virtually every College meeting, and publishing over 20 articles. This includes the development of the bidirectional flow arterial canulae.
He was a founding member of the Victorian Society of Cardiovascular Perfusionists, then a founding member of the Australasian Society of Cardiovascular
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