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in practically all the university medical schools of the
United States. He held over 45 visiting professorships
globally.
One of his most significant contributions to Irish
medicine, on his return to Dublin in 1981, as
consultant urologist at the Meath hospital and the
Trinity College School of Medicine at St James’s
Hospital, and, later, from 1986, as professor of
surgery at UCD and the Mater, was the development
of urology in Ireland to a standard of international
best practice.
His colleague Terry Brugha (ˋ71), Professor of
Psychiatry in the University of Leicester wrote to the
Union president at the time of his death: ‘He was truly
in the Nobel league in surgery.’
th
Fr John Macken SJ (ˋ62) died 7 May, 1996
John Macken joined the Jesuits immediately after
leaving Gonzaga. A ‘brilliant and cultured man’ who
excelled at every stage of his studies, which included
Eastern languages at UCD, he was ordained in 1974.
A committed ecumenist, he taught at the Irish school
of Ecumenics and at the Church of Ireland theologival
college. At the time of his premature death, he was
president of the Milltown Institute of Theology and
Philosophy.
A fuller obituary written by Fr Peter Sexton SJ
appears in The Gonzaga Record 1996.
110
United States. He held over 45 visiting professorships
globally.
One of his most significant contributions to Irish
medicine, on his return to Dublin in 1981, as
consultant urologist at the Meath hospital and the
Trinity College School of Medicine at St James’s
Hospital, and, later, from 1986, as professor of
surgery at UCD and the Mater, was the development
of urology in Ireland to a standard of international
best practice.
His colleague Terry Brugha (ˋ71), Professor of
Psychiatry in the University of Leicester wrote to the
Union president at the time of his death: ‘He was truly
in the Nobel league in surgery.’
th
Fr John Macken SJ (ˋ62) died 7 May, 1996
John Macken joined the Jesuits immediately after
leaving Gonzaga. A ‘brilliant and cultured man’ who
excelled at every stage of his studies, which included
Eastern languages at UCD, he was ordained in 1974.
A committed ecumenist, he taught at the Irish school
of Ecumenics and at the Church of Ireland theologival
college. At the time of his premature death, he was
president of the Milltown Institute of Theology and
Philosophy.
A fuller obituary written by Fr Peter Sexton SJ
appears in The Gonzaga Record 1996.
110
