Person
Climie, Colin Richmond (Dick) (1923 - 2013)
- Born
- 16 December 1923
Carterton, New Zealand - Died
- 27 July 2013
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - Occupation
- Anaesthetist
Summary
Dick Climie was an anaesthetist who pioneered the use of epidural anaesthesia in obstetrics at the National Women's Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, and at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney, where he was Director of Anaesthesia for 21 years from 1983. Here he established the first 24-hour epidural service in an obstetric hospital in New South Wales. His research included a landmark series of clinical pharmacology studies on local anaesthetics conducted with Jack Thomas of the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney.
Details
Chronology
- 1948
- Education - MB BS, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- 1949 - 1950
- Career position - Resident and Anaesthetics Registrar, Wellington Hospital, New Zealand
- 1951 - 1955
- Career event - In general practice, Wellington, New Zealand
- 1956 - 1958
- Career position - Registrar, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- 1957
- Education - Fellow, Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Surgeons, London
- 1958 - 1963
- Career position - Anaesthetist, National Women's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
- 1960
- Award - Fellow, Faculty of Anaesthesia, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- 1963 - 1984
- Career position - Director of Anaesthesia, Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney
- 1984 - 1990
- Career position - Anaesthetist (part-time), National Women's Hospital and North Shore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
- 1990
- Life event - Retired
- 1998
- Life event - Moved to Tasmania
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Mather, L. E., 'On Dr Dick Climie and Dr Jack Thomas, and the genesis of chemical-clinical pharmacology in Australian anaesthesia research', Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 46 (Supplement) (2018), 3-13. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 20 November 2018