Dr Kerryn Phelps
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Councillor Professor Kerryn Phelps AM |
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| Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney | |
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In office 23 September 2016 – 18 September 2017 |
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| Lord Mayor | Clover Moore |
| Preceded by | Irene Doutney |
| Succeeded by | Jess Miller |
| Councillor of the City of Sydney | |
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Assumed office 10 September 2016 |
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14 December 1957 Sydney, Australia |
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| Relations | Peter Phelps (brother) |
| Children | Jaime Fronzek Carl Fronzek Gabrielle Stricker-Phelps |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Occupation | Medical practitioner, academic |
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Professor Kerryn Lyndel Phelps AM (born 14 December 1957) is an Australian medical practitioner and politician. She was the first woman and first LGBT person to be elected president of the Australian Medical Association (AMA). In 2003 she was awarded the Centenary Medal for services to Health and Medicine. In 2011 she was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to medicine, particularly through leadership roles with the AMA, education and community health, and as a general practitioner. She is a pioneer in the field of health communication and integrative medicine in Australia. Phelps is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney (Usyd), Conjoint Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at University of New South Wales and Conjoint Professor in the National Institute of Complementary Medicine at the Western Sydney University.
She was elected to the Council of the City of Sydney on 10 September 2016 as a member of the Clover Moore Independents Team, and then appointed as Deputy Lord Mayor of the Council; but resigned as Deputy from 27 June 2017 and is now an independent politician.
Phelps graduated from the University of Sydney in 1981 and completed postgraduate training at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, and at the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She started working in health communications in the mainstream media in 1985, bringing messages about healthy lifestyle to the attention of the general public. Her television credits include EveryBody, Good Morning Australia, the Today Show, a documentary on The Kokoda Campaign and Last Chance Surgery. She has been the subject of stories on 60 Minutes, Australian Story and This Is Your Life. Phelps has presented a variety of health and fitness programs on radio and has been a regular newspaper and magazine columnist. In 1992, she was a regular on the sex education program Sex on the Nine Network.
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