References

• Dr John Gibbs HD John Gibbs was born in England in 1935 and moved with his family to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1947 at the end of the war. As a medical student at Otago University he gave a number of anaesthetics and so, after three years working in Invercargill, he returned to Dunedin where he commenced his anaesthetic specialist training. After obtaining his first part, he returned to England and worked in Oxford, where he completed his training and obtained his Fellowship. On return to Dunedin he became a full-time staff specialist. Some years later he was offered the opportunity to take up a full time academic appointment with the opening of Christchurch Medical School. He became an examiner with the Faculty of Anaesthetists, and a member of the New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists. He was a member of the board of the faculty for two years, and then a College councillor for the following ten, and he was president of the New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists in the late 1980s. He is now retired and living in Brisbane.