ru_nationalteam university children birth_place ru_nationalyears ru_nationalcaps article_title relatives name ru_position birth_date nickname spouse ru_nationalpoints school birth_name ru_amateuryears occupation
wallabies oxford -lrb- rhodes scholar -rrb- meredith , belinda , deborah and ross melbourne , victoria 1956 1 ainslie sheil
 dr sheil -lrb- brother -rrb- , dr beverley abbott -lrb- sister meredith -rrb- , dr gregor sheil -lrb- brother -rrb- foxton -lrb- sister -rrb- , dr glenister ainslie sheil fly-half 4 november 1933 ross dr sir wifrid kent-hughes -rrb- mary-louise sheil -lrb- nee kent-hughes , daughter of -lrb- 0 -rrb- the southport school ainslie glenister ross sheil played . -lrb- received oxford blue -rrb- for queensland , queensland university and oxford university surgeon hospital , nsw -rrb- -lrb- professor of transplant surgery royal prince alfred
ainslie sheil

ainslie glenister ross sheil -lrb- born 4 november 1933 -rrb- was a rugby union player who represented australia .
sheil , a fly-half , was born in melbourne , victoria and claimed 1 international rugby cap for australia .
ainslie sheil was born in 1933 and entered the southport school in 1947 as a member of delpratt house .
during his time at the school he was an accomplished scholar and sportsman , winning dux of the school , the chelmsford cup and the founder 's prize .
ross was also a school prefect , house captain , member of the 1st xv rugby , 1st xi cricket , 1st iv tennis , as well as being a member of the school 's swimming and athletics teams .
following his graduation from the southport school in 1950 , ross began his medical degree at the university of queensland where he continued to build upon his already accomplished sporting profile .
as a member of st.john 's college he represented the college in cricket , rugby , athletics , swimming , tennis and rowing .
he was awarded a college blue in 1951 in recognition of his outstanding contribution .
as well as representing st.john 's college , ross also represented the university of queensland in rugby union at a time when the university of queensland won the premiership six times during the seven year period from 1952 -- 1957 .
ross also represented the university in athletics and tennis for which he was awarded a university blue in 1952 .
whilst continuing his studies , ross was also a member of the queensland xv from 1952 -- 1957 .
he was selected for the australian universities xv which played new zealand in 1954 , japan in 1956 and the australian barbarian xv in 1957 .
his one and only national cap came in 1956 when he was selected for australia against south africa in sydney .
he acquitted himself well , however dislocated his shoulder and so was unavailable for the second test .
following the 1957 season , ross was awarded a rhodes scholarship to balliol college , oxford university , where he continued his studies in medicine .
whilst at university , ross continued to pursue his passion for both rugby and tennis and was awarded a full blue for both in 1958 .
in 1962 he was admitted to the royal college of surgeons and in 1966 , was admitted to the royal college of australian surgeons .
at oxford university he studied surgery and undertook pioneering research into organ transplantation .
after furthering this work in boston , sheil returned to australia where he specialised in vascular surgery and was a pioneer in transplantation surgery .
he was appointed professor of transplant surgery at sydney university and formed part of the sydney university renal transplant group , which in 1967 embarked on a community based cadaveric renal transplant program for nsw -lrb- sheil , stewart , johnson et al. 1969 -rrb- .
he headed the transplantation unit at royal prince alfred hospital and became head of the australian national liver transplant unit , and in fact carried out the first liver transplant in nsw .
he is now emeritus professor .
> he was made a officer in the orer of australia general division -lrb- ao -rrb- 1992 for services to surgery particularly clinical and research transplantation
