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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
After graduating from Sydney University, Ossie as he was known, completed his residency years in local hospitals coming later in the mid 1950's to Western Australia. He then went to London and spent time as a registrar at the National Heart Hospital (now the National Heart Institute). Here he was imbued with the knowledge, wisdom and enthusiasm of one of the world's great cardiologists - Paul Wood. Ossie returned to Perth in 1962 and established cardiac catheterisation units at both the Royal Perth Hospital and the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children. One of his contributions to cardiology was in the field of hydrogen studies to detect intra-cardiac shunts and later his mammoth longitudinal study of "The heart of the social drinker", published in 1985. Ossie proposed and promoted mitral valve prolapse auscultation as "the cardiac clatter", a methodology of weight reduction and an assessment of the quality of life calculated in Life Units. He was a councillor of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand for six years during the 1960's. Apart from the practice of cardiology, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, Ossie has had a committed involvement to communication as Editor-in-Chief since 1972 of the Maccabean Newspaper. He was also President of the Carmel School Board for nine years from 1975 to 1985. Ossie Tofler was Head of the Cardiology Department from 1962 to 1973. Ossie and his wife Tamara have four children, a daughter and three sons. David is a psychiatrist, Ian a paediatric psychiatrist and Geoffrey is a cardiologist. Outside of medicine he is recognised as a formidable squash player. He retired in 1991 and in recognition of his long and distinguished service to the hospital, the Board of Management appointed him an Emeritus Consultant. |
