Dilys Craven
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Dilys M. Rees, Mrs. Craven, OBE is a Welsh-born Australian paediatrician.
Born, raised and educated in Wales, Dilys Rees was the senior visiting specialist in paediatrics at the Adelaide Children's Hospital, beginning in 1951, then held the same position at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, also in Adelaide, South Australia. She completed her MD at the University of Adelaide in 1966.[1]
She retired from medical practice in 1984, but retained her links with area hospitals as Emeritus Physician.
Affiliations
- Australian Federation of Medical Women (President, 1980)
- National Council of Women of Australia
Order of the British Empire
She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1981) "for her services to medicine and paediatrics".
Family
She married David Craven in 1950; they have two daughters.
References
Categories:
- University of Adelaide alumni
- Australian medical doctors
- Welsh emigrants to Australia
- Living people
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- People from Adelaide
- Australian paediatricians
- Royal Army Medical Corps officers
- Australian military physicians
- Australian military personnel of World War II
- Australian women scientists