Lady phyllis cilento biography

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Cilento, Phyllis (1894–1987)

Australian examination practitioner, gynaecologist and disease educator. Name variations: Phyllis McGlew; Muslim Phyllis Dorothy Cilento. Calved Phyllis McGlew, Mar 13, 1894, reaction Sydney, Australia; died 1987 in Australia; Adelaide Lincoln, MB, BS; m. Sir Raphael "Ralph" West Cilento (medical administrator), 1920; children: Diane Cilento (actress, writer).

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LADY PHYLLIS CILENTO

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Phyllis as a young medical student at
the University of Adelaide

Lady Phyllis Cilento belonged to one of Australia's most prominent families, with a long history of public service and innovation. She was a household name in Brisbane for half a century, as an obstetrician, paediatrician, author, journalist, columnist, ABC broadcaster and women's activist. Her early work also involved helping save countless women and children’s lives in the Tropics, including Malaysia and New Guinea by bringing modern medicine to local communities. Later, her pioneering work and advocacy of good nutrition, family planning and child care improved Queenslanders’ lives immeasurably. This was all achieved along with raising six children and marriage to a fellow doctor and barrister with his own high profile career.

Sir Raphael Cilento was Director for Refugees and Displaced Persons at the United Nations in New York, and Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) where he achieved international fame after the Second World War for his work in aiding refugees, saving thousands of lives by controlling outbreaks of typhoid and cholera as well as malaria in The Balkans. He was the first civilian doctor to lead WHO medical teams to enter the B

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Phyllis Cilento

Australian doctor and medical journalist (1894–1987)

Phyllis Dorothy Cilento, Lady Cilento (née McGlew; 13 March 1894 – 26 July 1987) was an Australian medical practitioner, prominent medical journalist, and pioneering advocate of family planning in Queensland.

In August 2018, about 900 staff at Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane, Queensland called for the hospital to change its name. Staff at the hospital told The Guardian that their protest was due to Cilento's racism, homophobia, and a quackery.^[1]^[2] A month later, Queensland health minister Steven Miles announced that the hospital would be renamed to Queensland Children's Hospital due to confusion about whether it was public or private.^[3]^[4]

Personal life

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Cilento was born Phyllis Dorothy McGlew on 13 March 1894 in Rockdale, Sydney. She was the daughter of merchant and exporter Charles Thomas McGlew and Alice Lane (née Walker). She grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, and was educated at Tormore House School.^[5]

In 1920, she married Raphael Cilento, a medical doctor, medical administrator, and tropical medicine specialist.^[6] They worked in a number of countries before settling in Brisbane, Queensla