Phyllis Margery Anderson

Phyllis Margery Anderson (13 January 1901 – 29 November 1957) was an Australian pathologist. Phyllis Anderson was born in Petersham, New South Wales and educated at the Methodist Ladies' College in Burwood. Anderson entered the faculty of medicine and went on to earn an MB and a ChM at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1925.

Career She became a pathologist, at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in 1926 after training with Dr Tidswell an outstanding pathologist himself. Anderson was a senior pathologist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children from 1927 to 1940. She was admitted to membership of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1938. Anderson died at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney of hypertensive cerebrovascular disease at the age of 56. A research fellowship was established in her name in 1959.