Sacred Heart College Adelaide 1941-1946.
Made a member of the Order of Australia for significant service to orthodontics.
Pioneered the treatment of cleft palate patients in South Australia.
Inaugural Student President of Aquinas College.
Marcellin College Randwick 1951-1958.
Played first Grade Rugby League for South Sydney 1960-61, Eastern Suburbs in 1962 and North Sydney in 1963.
Awarded Fellowship of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in 1970.
Established Australian Institute of Musculoskeletal Research in 1985, which has trained Australian and Overseas young surgeons.
Appointed National Chairman of the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons in 1989.
Appointed Governor of Museum of Contemporary Art in 1990.
Awarded a Doctorate of Medicine MD from University of NSW in 1991 for Research on the Knee.
Awarded an Order of Australia OAM in 1995 for Knee Surgery and Sports Medicine.
Accepted into the “Hall of Fame” of American Orthopaedic Society Sports Medicine in 1999.
Appointed Director of Orthopaedics for the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000.
Appointed to the Board of the NRL 2000-2005.
Awarded the L.O. Betts Medal from the Australian Orthopaedic Association in 2011.
2021 Godfather Lecturer to the Herodicus Society.
St Ildephonsus College, New Norcia 1959-1964.
Judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia 1991 - 2010
An inaugural member of the Court of Appeal from 2005, following its establishment as a separate division of the Supreme Court.
Completed the two-year Royal Commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group in April 2003.
In July 2003, started the three-year hearing into Alan Bond's Bell group of companies - one of the nation's longest-running and most expensive civil actions.
Adjunct Professor of Law and visiting lecturer in law at both University of Western Australia and the University of Notre Dame Australia.
Long-time Member of the Board of Governors and current Trustee of the University of Notre Dame Australia.
Served as Chair of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council.
Chair of The Trustees of St John of God Australia Limited.
Actively involved within the schools sector having been the Chair of the governing body of a number of different primary and secondary schools.
Bunbury Catholic College 2000-2004
Bunbury Catholic College Hall of Distinction
Member of the 2011 Australian National Hockey Team (Kookaburras)
Professor in Polymer Science (University of Southern Mississippi) working on novel strategies for the treatment of cancer, heart disease and burn injuries.
Ambassador for the Rotary Foundation Microscopes in Schools Project.
Bunbury Catholic College 1973-1976.
Bunbury Catholic College Hall of Distinction.
Expert in Child Development clinical issues.
Former Associate Professor of Psychology at Murdoch University.
Marist College Ashgrove 1958-1963.
Assumed the role of Chief Medical Officer during the war in Afghanistan for Medecins Sans Frontieres.
Worked impoverished areas in Africa and worked with victims of leprosy in India.
Upon his premature passing one of Frank’s medical colleagues commented: “Dr Timmermans’ life was one of the most productive, profound, adventurous and compassionate jewels of mankind.”
St Joseph’s College | Marist Junior College, Subiaco 1960-1964.
Marist Senior College, Churchlands 1965-1968.
Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine 2005 (with Robin Warren).
Western Australian of the Year 2006.
Companion to the Order of Australia 2007.
Director, Marshall Centre, University of Western Australia.
St Joseph's College, Subiaco 1954-1958.
First surgeon to perform Laparoscopic hysterectomy in WA .
Inventor of McCartney Tube used in keyhole surgery.
AMA Hippocratic Medicine Award 2007.
Nominated WA Senior of the Year 2008.