| 1970 | Robert Marshall Allan Memorial Prize received |
| 1974 - 1978 | Senior Tutor at Monash University and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Queen Victoria Medical Centre |
| 1977 - 1979 | Clinical Supervisor at the University of Melbourne and the Department of Psychiatry at the Royal Melbourne Hospital |
| 1977 - 1979 | Secretary and Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Australian Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
| 1978 - 1983 | Federal Treasurer of the Australian Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis |
| 1980 | Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and the Department of Psychiatry at the Royal Melbourne Hospital |
| 1981 | Arthur Shapiro Hypnosis Book Award received from the American Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis |
| 1981 - 1983 | President of the Executive Committee of the Australian Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
| 1981 - 1983 | Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and the Department of Psychiatry at the Royal Melbourne Hospital |
| 1983 - 1988 | First Assistant at the University of Melbourne and the Department of Psychiatry at Austin and Larundel Hospitals |
| 1985 - 1987 | President of the Australian Society of Hypnosis |
| 1986 - 1989 | President of the International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
| 1987 - 1989 | Member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Human Reproduction for the World Health Organisation (WHO) |
| 1987 - 1990 | Member of the International Society for the Understanding, Prevention and Treatment of Mental Illness Related to Child-Bearing |
| 1988 - 1996 | Director of the Key Centre for Women's Health in Society at the University of Melbourne |
| 1989 | Organon Senior Research Award received from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) |
| 1989 - 1990 | Vice-President of the Association of Research Menopause in Paris |
| 1989 - 1991 | Member of the Advisory Board of the International Society of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine |
| 1991 - 1993 | Member of the Executive Committee of the Australian Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
| 1994 | Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) |
| 1994 - 1997 | Resource Member of the Global Commission on Women's Health for the World Health Organisation (WHO) |
| 1995 - | Personal Chair in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne |
| 1996 - 1998 | Member of the working party on Women Bioethics and Human Rights International Bioethics Committee of the United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) |
| 1996 - 1998 | Treasurer of the Section of Women and Mental Health at the World Psychiatric Association |
| 1997 - | Director of the Office for Gender and Health at the University of Melbourne |
