Ouida Ramón-Moliner

Ouida Ramón-Moliner ( d'Abreu; 23 December 1929 – 21 February 2020) was an Irish-born Canadian anaesthetist. She began working at Montreal General Hospital, helping Wilder Penfield perform awake craniotomies and the anaemia cure pioneer Harold Griffith. Ramón-Moliner also worked at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C, Université Laval and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke. She received the Quebec Lieutenant Governor's Seniors Medal in 2012 and a scholarship issued by Champlain Regional College is named after her.

Early life and education On 23 December 1929, Ramón-Moliner was born in Waterford in Ireland. She was named after Maria Louise Ramé, the English author whose pen name was Ouida. two boys and two girls. but she did not go to her intended destination of New Zealand. Rather, she remained in Montreal after meeting her husband Enrique Ramòn-Moliner in 1956. She worked in Sherbrooke until 1995. Ramón-Moliner did not make any official retirement following her no longer practising medicine.