Cramond, Teresa Rita O'Rourke (Tess) (1926 - 2015)

Summary

Tess Cramond commenced work as an anaesthetist in the early 1950s. In the fifty years that followed she was committed to the improvement of anaesthesia, resuscitation and pain medicine. She had a specific interest in the relief of cancer pain and supported the development of palliative care services.

In 1967 she established the Pain Clinic at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, and in 2008 it was renamed the Tess Cramond Pain and Research Centre in her honour.

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Chronology

1951 - 1952

Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Royal Brisbane Hospital

1953 - 1954

Career position - Senior Resident Medical Officer (anaesthetist), Royal Brisbane Hospital

1954

Career position - Anaesthetics Registrar, Royal Brisbane Hospital

1955

Award - Nuffield Prize, Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Surgeons, England

1955

Career position - Diploma Anaesthetist, Royal College of Physicians, London and the Royal College of Surgeons, UK

1955 - 1956

Career position - Anaesthetics Registrar, Poplar Hospital in London

1956 - 1957

Career position - Anaesthetics Registrar, London Hospital

1957 - ?

Career position - Member, Queensland Branch, Australian Medical Association

1957 - 1991

Career position - Senior Anaesthetist, Kenneth G Jamieson Neurosurgical Unit, Royal Brisbane Hospital

1958 - ?

Career position - Secretary, Queensland Branch, Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

1958 - 1973

Career position - Senior Honorary Anaesthetist, Mater Children's Hospital, Brisbane

1960 - 1964

Career position - Federal Secretary, Australian Society of Anaesthetists

1964 - 1965

Career position - Visiting Lecturer, University of Texas, Houston, U.S.A.

1967

Award - Gilbert Brown Prize, Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

1967 - 2009

Career position - Director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Centre at the Royal Brisbane Hospital

1970 - 1972

Career position - Vice-Dean, Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

1970 - 2000

Career position - Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee, Surf Life Saving (Queensland)

1972 - 1974

Career position - Dean, Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

1975

Career position - Jobson Visiting Lecturer, University of Sydney

1975 - 2001

Career position - Member, Queensland Committee to Enquire into Perioperative Deaths

1977

Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) - In recognition of service to medicine

1977

Award - Kenneth G. Jamieson Lecturer, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

1977 - 1986

Career position - Consultant Anaesthetist and Army Office Colonel (retired), Royal Australian Army Medical Corps

1978 - 1981

Career position - Member, Anti-Cancer Council of Queensland

1978 - 1983

Career position - Member of the Senate, University of Queensland

1978 - 1993

Career position - Professor of Anaesthetics, University of Queensland

1979

Award - Dame Magistral Grace Sovereign, Military Order of St John of Jerusalem Rhodes and Malta (DStJ)

1981

Career position - President, Queensland Branch, Australian Medical Association

1982

Award - Gold Medal, Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal Australian College of Surgeons

1982

Award - Rank Lecturer, Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Surgeons, England

1982

Award - Elkington Orator, Australian Society of Health

1983

Award - Gold Medal, Royal College of Surgeons, England

1983 - 2015?

Career position - Fellow, Australian Medical Association

1983 - 2015?

Career position - Fellow, British Medical Association

1984 - 1988

Career position - Member, Committee on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, World Federation Societies of Anaesthesiologists

1986

Award - Advance Australia Award

1986 - 1988

Career position - Chair, Anaesthetics Mortality Committee, National Health and Medical Research Council

1986 - 1989

Career position - Chair, Palliative Care Association of Queensland

1987

Award - Orton Medal, Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal Australian College of Surgeon (RACS)

1987 - 1990

Career position - Council Member, National Health and Medical Research Council

1988 - 1989

Career position - Chair, Registration Advisory Committee, Medical Board of Queensland

1988 - 1994

Career position - Member, Ethics Committee, Griffith University

1989

Award - Bancroft Orator, Queensland Branch, Australian Medical Association

1989

Award - Concannon Oration, University of Southern Queensland

1989

Award - Centenary Orator, Australian Medical Association

1989 - 1997

Career position - Chair, Ministerial Advisory Committee on First Aid Training, Queensland

1990 - 1995

Career position - Member, Anti-Cancer Council, Queensland

1990 - 1996

Career position - Member of the Senate, Queensland Chapter, Australian Catholic University

1991

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) - in recognition of service to medicine, particularly in the field of anaesthesia and to the community

1991

Award - Officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (OStJ)

1991 - 1995

Career position - Member of the Royal Brisbane Hospital Foundation

1991 - 2000

Career position - Member, Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, Commonwealth of Australia

1992

Award - Red Cross Long Service Award, Australian Red Cross

1992

Award - John Bonica Lecturer, Australian Pain Society

1992 - 1996

Career position - Member of the Senate, Australian Catholic University

1992 - 2001

Career position - Chair, Therapeutic Opioid Drugs of Dependence Committee

1992 - 2015

Career position - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists

1994

Award - Distinguished Service Award, Australian Red Cross

1994

Career position - Vice-President, Queensland Branch, Australian Medical Association

1994 - 1999

Career position - Member, Medical Board of Queensland

1997

Award - Honorary Member, Palliative Care Association of Queensland

1999

Award - Doctor of Medicine (MD), honoris causa, University of Queensland

1999 - 2015

Career position - Founding Fellow, Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian and new Zealand College of Anaesthetists

2001

Award - Centenary Medal - for distinguished service to health and education in Queensland

2008

Award - Lifetime Achievement Award, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital

2008

Award - Inaugural Distinguished Member, Australian Pain Society

2009

Award - Council Citation, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists

2009

Award - Citation for service to Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Australian Society of Anaesthetists

2009

Award - Defence Force Medal

Related entries

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Journal Articles

• Boyle, R.; and Zundert, A. A. J. van, 'Professor Tess Cramond (1926 - 2015): contributions to anaesthesia and pain medicine', Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 45 (Supp.) (2017), 4-12. Details
• Cramond, T., 'The Fifty-sixth Bancroft Oration: 'a Transient popularity'', Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 18 (2) (1990), 252-264. Details
• Cramond, Tess, 'Two pioneer Queensland ophthalmologists', New Zealand journal of ophthalmology, 27 (1990), 371-4. Details

Resources

• 'Cramond, Teresa Rita O'Rourke (19260222-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476336. Details
• 'Awarded honorary MD, 1999 [Citation provided]', Honorary awards recipients, University of Queensland, 2023, https://alumni.uq.edu.au/awards/honorary-awards-previous-recipients. Details

See also

• Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details