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Bergin was a member of the New Zealand Epilepsy Association council, and assisted neurological research via his participation in the Scientific Advisory Committee of the New Zealand Neurological Association which he helped found the Neurological Association of New Zealand in 1971. He was also a
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For over forty years he was an active member of the Catholic Doctors' Guild of St Luke, SS Cosmas, & Damian which he also served as Master. He was a strong opponent of abortion, and was active in founding the
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Bergin was devoutly committed to the Catholic faith, described by Haas and Hornabrook as "able to articulate, intellectualise, and simplify aspects of Catholicism, and his arguments were always persuasive".
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In 1956 Bergin returned to New Zealand and succeeded Dr I.M. Allen as the second neurologist to Wellington Hospital. He was the driving force behind the establishment of
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Bergin was married to Lorna Stark and had eight children, two of whom have become doctors, and one of whom is also a neurologist. He died on 22 July 1995, aged 74.
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Foundation Member of the Australasian Association of Neurologists. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1958, and a Fellow of the
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Hospitals before travelling to Britain where he was a student and house physician at the Royal Post Graduate Medical School at
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in 1982, and in 1990 the Pope recognised Bergin's considerable contributions and made him a Papal Knight of the
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hospitals. He had long standing involvements with the Home of Compassion and Calvary hospitals in Wellington.
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The Royal Australian College of Physicians College Roll: Dr. John Daniel Bergin
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and Japan. Upon returning to New Zealand he worked in medicine in
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Bergin received his secondary education at St Patrick's College,
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He and his wife were the first New Zealanders appointed by
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