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Archie Kalokerinos AMM MBBS PhD FAPM is an Australian physician known as a pioneer in orthomolecular medicine, though his work remains largely unrecognised by established science. He was awarded Greek Australian of the Century by the Greek Community in Australia.

Life

Kalokerinos took his medical degree from Sydney University in 1951 and then spent six years in England. On his return to Australia he was appointed Medical Superintendent of Collarenebri Hospital where he served until 1975. He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society for Health, a Fellow of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine, Fellow of the Australasian College of Biomedical Scientists, Fellow of the Hong Kong Medical Technology Association, and a Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. In 1978 he was awarded the Australian Medal of Merit for "outstanding scientific research."

Kalokerinos has authored a book with profound orthomolecular medicine implications entitled Every Second Child, as well as many scientific papers. He is also author of two books on the subject of opal, on which he is considered to be an international authority. Currently he is working as a general practitioner at Bingara, New South Wales, where he is in charge of the local hospital. He is also the Honorary Medical Advisor for Aboriginal Health.

Publications by author

• Every Second Child. Keats Publishing, Sept 1981. ISBN 0879832509. Foreward by Linus Pauling
• Vitamin C Nature's Miraculous Healing Missile! (co-author with Dr Ian Dettman & Dr Glen Dettman) ISBN 0646119850 Foreword by Linus Pauling
• Medical Pioneer of the 20th Century, an autobiography. ISBN 0646408526 Foreward by Ian Dettman

External links

• Tribute By Oscar Falconi, Saratoga CA, 18 August 1993
• Why a Satisfactory Solution to the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Has Not Been Achieved by Dr Archie Kalokerinos
• The Answer to Crib Death "Sudden Infant Death Syndrome" (SIDS) by Joseph G. Hattersley

• Australian doctors