Anne Tampere was born on 19 November 1942 in Tartu, Estonia and is the second child of a four-child family of Vanemuine orchestra player Arnold and a music school teacher Helene.
She later moved to Viljandi where she met and married Toivo Ormisson, and her daughter Liis and a son Niil were born.
In 1971, she started working as a researcher at the Department of Pediatrics, University of Tartu, and in November 1975, she received the degree of candidate of medicine.
[9] Has led several research projects including "Development and health of premature newborns in infancy and early childhood",[10] "Quality evaluation in Estonian perinatal and neonatal medicine" among others, and received grants for them.
[1] From 1995 to 1997, she was the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Estonian Perinatology Sõnumid,[11] pediatric educational materials and collections of articles, including "Clinical instructions in perinatology" (1997), "Metabolic disorders of newborns".