Background
The daughter of James Robert Anderson, a medical practitioner, and Mary Kendall, she was born in Petersham, New South Wales.
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Phyllis Anderson
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She was educated at the Methodist Ladies" College in Burwood and went on to earn a Bachelor of Medicine and a Magister Chirurgiae from the University of Sydney.
Career
She became a pathologist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in 1926 and was senior pathologist there from 1927 to 1940. In 1945, she became a teaching fellow at the University. She later became a part-time lecturer.
In 1928, Anderson founded the Medical Women"s Society of New South Wales and she served as its president from 1945 to 1946.
Anderson died at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney of hypertensive cerebrovascular disease at the age of 56. A research fellowship was established in her name in 1959.
Membership
From 1941 to 1946, she was a member of the bacteriology department of the University of Sydney. She was also a member of the overseas committee for the Royal Academy of Dance.
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Australian