Anderson, Phyllis Margery (1901 - 1957)

Summary

Phyllis Anderson was a pathologist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children 1926-1940. 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.

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Chronology

1925

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (ChM), University of Sydney

1926

Career position - Pathologist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children

1927 - 1940

Career position - Senior Resident Pathologist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children

1928

Career position - Founder of the Medical Women's Society of New South Wales

1941 - 1945

Career position - Department of Bacteriology, University of Sydney

1945 - 1946

Career position - President, Medical Women's Society of New South Wales

1945 - 1957

Career position - Teaching Fellow and later part-time Lecturer, University of Sydney

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Book Sections

• Scollay, Moira, 'Anderson, Phyllis Margery (1901-1957), pathologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), p. 61. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070063b.htm. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537174. Details
• 'Anderson, Phyllis Margery (1901-1957)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462744. Details