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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2005-09-07 human Annette Alafaci updated 2025-10-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004580b.htm person Anderson Charlotte Morrison AM FRACP FRCP FACP AACR2 12 March 1915 15 April 2002 Place of Birth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Toorak, Victoria, Australia Paediatric Gastroenterologist Charlotte Anderson was an Australian pioneer of paediatric gastroenterology. She developed a clinical research program at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, where she also established the first cystic fibrosis clinic in Australia (1953) and the hospital's Gastroenterological Research Unit (1962). Her research was wide-reaching and varied, but her major contributions were made in the areas of cystic fibrosis, celiac disease and sugar intolerance: Anderson devised a test to differentiate between cystic fibrosis and celiac disease; introduced the use of inhalation and chest physiotherapy to increase the survival rate of cystic fibrosis patients; discovered that celiac disease was triggered by wheat gluten and that a gluten-free diet could prevent further disease onset and heal the damaged gut; and invented a simple, non-invasive test for diagnosing sugar intolerance in infants.

After completing a science degree and five years of research, Charlotte Morrison Anderson, decided to take up medicine. She graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1945 and was appointed a Resident at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. The following year she moved to Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital which was the start of her life-long association with the hospital. The hospital's Charlote Anderson Memorial Lecture was named in her honour.

In 1950 Anderson received a fellowship and travelled to the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Birmingham in England to continue her research into malabsorption problems in children. She returned to Melbourne and to the Children's Hospital in 1953 and established Australia's first cystic fibrosis clinic. In 1962 she set up the hospital's Gastroenterological Research Unit, which she headed for six years.

Charlotte Anderson returned to England and to the University of Birmingham in 1968, remaining there for fourteen years. After her retirement in 1982, she came back to Australia where she worked as an Honorary Consulting Gasteroenterologist at the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Western Australia and at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.

Anderson was a fellow of the national and international paediatric societies, helped establish the Australian Society of Paediatric Research, co-founded the Australian Paediatric Journal (1965), authored numerous scientific publications including the book Paediatric Gastroenterology (Anderson & Burke, 1975), and was appointed a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia for her service to medicine.

1936 1936 Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc(Hons)), University of Melbourne 1936 1941 Career position - Research Biochemist at the Baker Medical Research Institute, Alfred Hospital, Victoria 1937 1937 Education - Master of Science (MSc) with Exhibition, University of Melbourne 1945 1945 Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Melbourne 1945 1946 Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital 1946 1947 Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne 1948 1950 Career position - Medical Registrar at the Clinical Research Unit of the Royal Children's Hospital 1950 1951 Career position - Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK 1953 1956 Career position - Senior Research Associate at the Clinical Research Unit, Royal Children's Hospital 1955 1955 Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Melbourne 1956 1959 Career position - First Assistant in Medical Out-patients at the Royal Children's Hospital 1956 1961 Career position - First Assistant (to 1959) then Deputy Director of the Clinical Research Unit 1962 1967 Career position - Member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians 1962 1968 Career position - Head of the Gastroenterological Research Unit, Royal Children's Hospital Research Foundation in Melbourne 1965 1968 Career position - Co-founder of The Australian Paediatric Journal 1967 Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) 1968 1980 Career position - Leonard Parsons Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Birmingham and Director of the Institute of Child Health, University of Birmingham, UK 1969 1971 Career position - Member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, London 1971 Award - Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), London 1975 Award - Fellow, Australian College of Paediatrics (FACP) 1980 Career position - Professor Emeritus in Paediatrics and child Health, University of Birmingham 1982 1990 Career position - Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western Australia 1982 1990 Career position - Honorary Consulting Gastroenterologist at the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Perth 1994 Career position - Honorary Consulting Gastroenterologist at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne 1996 Award - Honorary Founder Fellow Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK 1997 1997 Award - Member of the (General Division) Order of Australia (AM)

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 'Anderson, Charlotte Morrison', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Anderson, Charlotte Morrison Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: A Pioneer of Paediatric Gastroenterology: the Career of an Australian Woman Scientist [Charlotte Morrison Anderson] Allen, Nessy A Pioneer of Paediatric Gastroenterology: the Career of an Australian Woman Scientist [Charlotte Morrison Anderson] 1996 Historical Records of Australian Science 11 1 35-50 Edited Book: In their day: the Baker Medical Research Institute memoirs of alumni Andrew, Rod and Barnett, Alf In their day: the Baker Medical Research Institute memoirs of alumni South Yarra (Vic.) Hyland House 1992