Past Deans of the Faculty of Anaesthetists
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NAME: DOUGLAS GEORGE RENTON
DEAN FROM 1952-1955
QUALIFICATIONS: MBBS – UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (1922)
DA RCP&S – ENGLAND (1939)
DATE OF BIRTH: 9 MARCH 1899
DATE OF DEATH: 2 MAY 1955
NAME: ROBERT HAMILTON ORTON
DEAN FROM 1955 – 1959
QUALIFICATIONS: MBBS – UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (1930)
DA – UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (1948)
DATE OF BIRTH: 5 APRIL 1906
DATE OF DEATH: 21 DECEMBER 1966
NAME: LENNARD ‘LEN’ GILMORE TRAVERS
DEAN FROM 1959 – 1961
QUALIFICATIONS: MBBS – UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (1930)
DATE OF BIRTH: 6 SEPTEMBER 1906
DATE OF DEATH: 2 MARCH 1968
NAME: JAMES FISHBOURNE MCCULLOCH
DEAN FROM 1961 – 1964
QUALIFICATIONS: MB CHM – UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY (1924)
DA – UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY (1950)
DATE OF BIRTH: 1 MAY 1901
DATE OF DEATH: 26 JUNE 1984
NAME: LEONARD THOMAS SHEA
DEAN FROM 1964 – 1966
QUALIFICATIONS: MBBS – UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY (1937)
DA – UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY (1946)
DATE OF BIRTH: 30 NOVEMBER 1912
DATE OF DEATH: 26 AUGUST 1987
NAME: MARY TAYLOR BURNELL (ANGEL)
DEAN FROM 1966 – 1967
QUALIFICATIONS: MBBS – ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY (1931)
DATE OF BIRTH: 21 FEBRUARY 1907
DATE OF DEATH: 25 AUGUST 1996
NAME: RALPH CLARK
DEAN FROM 1967 – 1968
Qualifications: MB BS (Melb) 1947
DA (Melb) 1951, DA (RCP&S) 1952
FFARACS 1955
DATE OF BIRTH: 18 August 1924
DATE OF DEATH: 4 February 2019
NAME: Noel Morris Cass
Dean from 1968 – 1970
QUALIFICATIONS: MB BS (Melb) 1949, DA (Melb) 1953
FFARCS, 1954 (FFARACS, 1957)
FANZCA 1992
Date of Birth: 10 June 1927
Date of Death: 1 May 2017
NAME: Kevin McCaul
Dean from 1970 – 1972
Qualifications:
FFARCS, 1953
FFARACS, 1954
Date of Birth: 16 January 1914
Date of Death: 16 June 1998
NAME: Teresa Rita O’Rourke Cramond (Brophy), OBE
Dean from 1972 – 1974
Qualifications: MB BS (Qld) 1951
DA (RCP&S) 1955
FFARCS, 1956 (FFARACS, 1956)
Date of Birth: 22 February 1926
Date of Death: 26 December 2015
NAME: Brian Eric Dwyer AM, KCSG
Dean from 1974 – 1976
Qualifications: MB BS (Syd) 1948
DA, RCPS, 1952
FFARCS, 1954 (FFARACS, 1955)
Date of Birth: 9 February 1925
Date of Death: 7 June 2006
NAME: WILLIAM JOHN ‘JACK’ WATT OBE
DEAN FROM 1976 – 1978
QUALIFICATIONS: MB (Otago), ChB
FFARCS, FFARACS
FANZCA
Date of Birth: 26 October 1918
Date of Death: 2 August 2011
NAME: Maurice James Wilson Sando OBE
Dean from 1978 – 1980
Qualifications: MB BS (Adel) 1953
FFARACS, 1957 (FFARCS, 1982)
DATE OF BIRTH: 23 JANUARY 1930
DATE OF DEATH: 24 FEBRUARY 1984
NAME: Douglas Joseph AO
Dean from 1980 – 1982
Qualifications: MB BS (Syd) 1947
DA (Lond) 1952
FFARCS, 1956 (FFARACS, 1957)
Date of Birth: 21 January 1925
Date of Death: 6 March 1990
NAME: William Moncrief Crosby
Dean from 1982 – 1984
Qualifications: MB BS (Melb) 1954
DA (Melb)
FFARACS, 1959
Date of Birth: 10 December 1928
Date of Death: 28 July 1991
NAME: Ross Beresford Holland AM
Dean from 1984 – 1986
Qualifications: MB BS (Syd) 1952
FFARACS, 1959
FANZCA, 1992
FHKCA
Date of Birth: 1 December 1927
Date of Death: 25 February 2017
NAME: Robin William Smallwood
Dean from 1986 – 1987
Qualifications: MB BS (Melb) 1958
FFARACS, 1964
Date of Birth: 27 April 1934
Date of Death: 6 October 1987
NAME: ARTHUR BARRINGTON BAKER, AM
DEAN FROM 1987 – 1990
QUALIFICATIONS: MB BS, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND (1963)
DPHIL, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (1971)
FANZCA, 1992 (FFARACS, 1968)
FRCA, 1992 (FFARCS, 1968)
FCICM, 2008, (FFICANZCA, 1993, FJFIC (ANZCA & RACP), 2002)
DHMSA (1982)
DATE OF BIRTH: 24 JUNE 1939