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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Mr Peter Cromack was born in London in 1920, the son of a civil servant. Before attaining his English Fellowship in 1952 he gained surgical experience in a number of English hospitals. From 1955 - 1956 he was a graded specialist with the rank of Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. In 1956 he was first associated with the Royal Perth Hospital Orthopaedic Department and by the time of his retirement was the orthopaedic surgeon in charge of one of its divisions. He has had attachments to both Princess Margaret and Fremantle Hospitals. More importantly he served the Repatriation Hospital from 1956 - 1975 where he was responsible for developing a full orthopaedic service for that hospital. After his retirement from Perth hospitals in 1975, he developed an orthopaedic service at the Albany Regional Hospital where none had previously existed. His interests outside the profession are in fishing and gardening. His writings include a paper on the mechanism and nature of the injury in dislocation of the elbow and a method of treatment in the ANZ Journal of Surgery, 1961 and a description of the rare mesenchymoma of the thigh in the British Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. He has a son and a daughter; the latter is involved in one of the medical auxiliary professions. |
