Dorothy Jean Hailes

Dorothy Jean Hailes (22 June 1926 – 27 November 1988) was an Australian medical practitioner in the 20th century. Hailes, along with a group of doctors, was instrumental in the creation of the Australasian Menopause Society.

Early life and education Hailes was born on 22 June 1926 in Ascot Vale, Melbourne to surgeon William Allan Hailes and Mary Maud Whitfield. She had an older sister and a younger sister. Hailes went on to attend the University of Melbourne where she obtained her MB, BS in 1949. She then began medical training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital where she completed her medical training as a resident medical officer in 1960. where she was a medical officer in the Victorian Division's blood transfusion service for ten years.

The mainstream medicine industry supported Hailes for developing clinical and research expertise that was related to the health issues of older women. Hailes (with the Burger) developed a paper on a hormone replacement therapy research program titled `Oestrogens and Menopausal and Post-menopausal Women’. The Medical Journal of Australia published this research program in 1977. On 27 November 1988 Hailes died of cancer at South Yarra. Her body was cremated soon after.

The Jean Hailes Research Unit at Monash University, which connects the university to clinical services based in translation of knowledge, was named in Hailes' honour.

In 2012 Hailes was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women.