{"id":1651,"date":"2020-11-18T12:29:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2020-11-20T10:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T23:04:04","slug":"vale-david-alexander-mccredie-am-15-june-1926-17-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/vale-david-alexander-mccredie-am-15-june-1926-17-november-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale David Alexander McCredie AM 15 June 1926 \u2013 17 November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1657\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1657\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/files\/2020\/11\/David-McCredie2-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David McCredie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Alumni executive were saddened to learn that David McCredie MD BSc FRACP has died after a short illness. He studied science and medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1949. He joined the Children\u2019s Hospital as a Resident Medical Officer in 1951 and after further training in Melbourne and overseas, he became Second Assistant and Associate Professor at the Hospital, 1963-91.<\/p>\n<p>He served as Hospital Nephrologist from 1973-79, and head of the General Medical and Professorial Medical Units from 1979-91. He represented the Australian Kidney Foundation and the International Paediatric Nephrology Association over a number of years. In 2004, he chaired the International Congress on Paediatric Nephrology in Adelaide. He was appointed a Member in the Order of Australia, in the general division (AM), in The Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Our condolences to Yvonne and the McCredie family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alumni executive were saddened to learn that David McCredie MD BSc FRACP has died after a short illness. He studied science and medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1949. He joined the Children\u2019s Hospital as a Resident Medical Officer in 1951 and after further training in Melbourne and overseas, he became Second &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/vale-david-alexander-mccredie-am-15-june-1926-17-november-2020\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}