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Gilbert, Gwendolyn Lesley (Lyn) (1942 - )

AO

Born
5 December 1942
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Pathologist

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Chronology

1976 - 1978
Career position - Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, University of Melbourne
1979 - 1984
Career position - Director of Microbiology at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne
1984 - 1990
Career position - Director of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
1991 -
Career position - Director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services at the Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research in Westmead, New South Wales
2000 - 2002
Career position - President, Australian Society for Microbiology
2017
Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to medical research, particularly the study of infectious disease prevention and control, to tertiary education as an academic, and to public health policy

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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 regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

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  • Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2001 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details

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