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About Pamela Clauss
- Pamela Clauss (17 August 1925 – 5 August 2001) was an Australian pioneering nurse, philanthropist and supporter of historical preservation and the arts. Born as Pamela Heavey in Longueville, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, to Alison Maud (née Bennett) and John Aloysius Heavey, a New Zealand Navy veteran who had been decorated during World War I for bravery in the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli in 1915. She graduated from Sacred Heart College in Kensington, Sydney and went on to attend nursing training at St.
- Vincent's Hospital, also in Sydney, in 1942.
- In 1956 following activities in Europe and England she returned to Australia and became a nursing sister in charge of St.
- Vincent's newly established cardio-thoracic surgical unit.
- Three years later she went to the Mayo Clinic as part of an exchange-training program, and in 1965 she joined the open-heart surgery team of Dr.
- Roy H.
- Clauss (who would become her husband in 1970) and Dr.
- George Reed in New York City.
- She went on to pioneer cardiac bypass surgery techniques at the Mayo Clinic, at New York University and at the New York Medical College.
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