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Anderson, Phyllis Margery (1901 - 1957)

Pathologist

Born: 13 January 1901 Petersham, New South Wales, Australia. Died: 29 November 1957 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Phyllis Margery Anderson was a pathologist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children 1926-40. She was partly responsible for the transition of the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children into a teaching hospital. She is commemorated by the Phyllis Anderson Research Fellowship, established 1959.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1925 Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (ChM) completed at the University of Sydney
1926 Pathologist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children
1927 - 1940 Senior Resident Pathologist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children
1928 Founder of the Medical Women's Society of New South Wales
1941 - 1945 Department of Bacteriology at the University of Sydney
1945 - 1946 President of the Medical Women's Society of New South Wales
1945 - 1957 Teaching Fellow and later part-time Lecturer at the University of Sydney

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 15 September 2004

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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