Name: HENRY MICHAEL BRAY

Qualifications:
MBBS, Melbourne, 1948
DA (Part 1), Melbourne, 1956

Date of Birth: 6 October 1924
Date of Death: 5 December 2002

Henry Michael Bray, known as Harry, was born in 1924. He graduated from the University of Melbourne shortly after the Second World War, in 1948. Following residency, Bray worked at Royal Women’s Hospital, Launceston General Hospital and St Vincent’s Melbourne, where he was to work for the following 32 years.

After gaining fellowship, Bray temporarily relocated to the United Kingdom where he worked and undertook post fellowship training at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. On return to Melbourne he became Deputy Director of Anaesthesia at St Vincent’s, with a heavy involvement in the development of cardiopulmonary bypass for open heart surgery. He continued to introduce advances until he retired in 1989.

Bray also had a long association with neuroanaesthesia, introducing many advances during his time at St Vincent’s including whole body hypothermia for complex cerebral aneurysm surgery.

Bray retired from St Vincent’s in 1989 but continued to work part time in anaesthesia until his death in 2002.

SOURCES
Form of application for permission to appear before a Court of Examiners for the final Fellowship of the Faculty, 1957; ‘Dr Henry (Harry) Michael Bray’, ANZCA Bulletin, March 2003.

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