Person
Dennerstein, Lorraine (1947 - )
AO
- Born
- 5 August 1947
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Medical educator and Psychiatrist
Summary
Lorraine Dennerstein was appointed Director of the Office for Gender and Health at the University of Melbourne in 1997. Her main areas of research are menopause and women's health, gender and mental health and the measurement of sexual functioning. She is a member of the editorial committees of 3 international journals and has written over 20 books and 200 journal articles or chapters in books.
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Chronology
- 1970
- Award - Robert Marshall Allan Memorial Prize received
- 1974 - 1978
- Career position - Senior Tutor at Monash University and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Queen Victoria Medical Centre
- 1977 - 1979
- Career position - Secretary and Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Australian Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- 1977 - 1979
- Career position - Clinical Supervisor at the University of Melbourne and the Department of Psychiatry at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
- 1978 - 1983
- Career position - Federal Treasurer of the Australian Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
- 1980
- Career position - Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and the Department of Psychiatry at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
- 1981
- Award - Arthur Shapiro Hypnosis Book Award received from the American Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
- 1981 - 1983
- Career position - President of the Executive Committee of the Australian Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- 1981 - 1983
- Career position - Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and the Department of Psychiatry at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
- 1983 - 1988
- Career position - First Assistant at the University of Melbourne and the Department of Psychiatry at Austin and Larundel Hospitals
- 1985 - 1987
- Career position - President of the Australian Society of Hypnosis
- 1986 - 1989
- Career position - President of the International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- 1987 - 1989
- Career position - Member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Human Reproduction for the World Health Organisation (WHO)
- 1987 - 1990
- Career position - Member of the International Society for the Understanding, Prevention and Treatment of Mental Illness Related to Child-Bearing
- 1988 - 1996
- Career position - Director of the Key Centre for Women's Health in Society at the University of Melbourne
- 1989
- Award - Organon Senior Research Award received from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)
- 1989 - 1990
- Career position - Vice-President of the Association of Research Menopause in Paris
- 1989 - 1991
- Career position - Member of the Advisory Board of the International Society of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine
- 1991 - 1993
- Career position - Member of the Executive Committee of the Australian Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- 1994
- Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) - In recognition of service to medical education and medical research, particularly in relation to women's health issues
- 1994 - 1997
- Career position - Resource Member of the Global Commission on Women's Health for the World Health Organisation (WHO)
- 1995 -
- Career position - Personal Chair in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne
- 1996 - 1998
- Career position - Treasurer of the Section of Women and Mental Health at the World Psychiatric Association
- 1996 - 1998
- Career position - Member of the working party on Women Bioethics and Human Rights International Bioethics Committee of the United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
- 1997 -
- Career position - Director of the Office for Gender and Health at the University of Melbourne
- 2012
- Award - Doctor of Medical Science (DMedSc), honoris causa, University of Melbourne
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
- Dennerstein, Lorraine; Ewing, Jill; Lehert, Philippe, 'Women in the Professions of Medicine and Law' in Women in Higher Education: an Agenda for the Decade, S. L. Davies and D. R. Jones, eds (Armidale: Department of Administrative, Higher and Adult Education Studies, University of New England, 1990), pp. 89-104. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q19872829. Details
- 'Dennerstein, Lorraine (19470805-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-583643. Details
- 'Awarded honorary DMedSc, 2012 [Citation provided]', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details
See also
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 12 February 2003, Last modified: 16 April 2003