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Phone: 02 9246 7347
Email: kphelps@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
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Professor Kerryn Phelps AM was first elected to Council in
September 2016. Kerryn is an Australian medical practitioner, public health and
civil rights advocate, medical educator, wife to Jackie and mother of three.
She was the first woman to be elected as President of the Federal Australian
Medical Association and is also a past President of the Australasian
Integrative Medicine Association.
Kerryn is a passionate advocate for civil rights,
particularly equality for the LGBT community and the rights of vulnerable children.
She is committed to teaching the next generation of doctors as an Adjunct
Professor at Sydney Medical School and Conjoint Professor at University of New
South Wales Faculty of Medicine and in the National Institute of Complementary
Medicine at Western Sydney University.
As a pioneer in health communication in Australia, Kerryn
has appeared regularly on television, radio and in the print media for thirty
years, informing the public on health, fitness and wellness. She has been the
health columnist for the Australian Women’s Weekly
since 1995.
Kerryn has written several books including a medical
textbook, General Practice: The
Integrative Approach. Ultimate
Wellness was published in 2013, The
Cancer Recovery Guide was published in 2015 and The Mystery Gut was published in 2017.
She is a keen sportswoman, and in 2014, was appointed to the board of Hockey Australia. Kerryn is an ambassador for Barnardos Australia. In 2016, she was named one of 100 Women of Influence by the Australian Financial Review.