John Horvath
John Stephen Horvath is an Australian medical doctor and the Chief Medical Officer of Australia between 2003 and 2009. Horvath is Deputy Chairman of Crown Resorts Limited. Horvath is also Group Chief Medical Officer of Ramsay Health Care and a Director of the Ramsay Hospital Medical Research Institute and the Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation.
Horvath graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1968. Horvath practiced for 30 years at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney including as director of renal and transplant services between 1997 and 2003. He was also deputy chair of the World Health Organisation's international cancer research institute in Lyon in France.
Horvath was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2001 Australia Day Honours for "service to medicine, particularly in the field of hypertension, as a consultant physician and a clinical tutor of medicine, and to medical administration.".
He is married to Professor Diana Horvath and the two worked together at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland in the United States. They have two children.
