Kerryn Phelps, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kerryn Phelps

Australian doctor and politician

Date of Birth: 14-Dec-1957

Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Profession: physician, politician

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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Kerryn Lyndel Phelps (born 14 December 1957) is an Australian medical practitioner and politician.
She was the first woman to be elected president of the Australian Medical Association (AMA).
In 2001, she was awarded the Centenary Medal for services to health and medicine.
In 2011 she was appointed 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 Conjoint Professor in the National Institute of Complementary Medicine at the Western Sydney University. Phelps was elected to the Council of the City of Sydney on 10 September 2016 as a member of the Clover Moore Independents Team, and was then appointed as Deputy Lord Mayor of the Council.
She resigned as Deputy on 26 June 2017 and is now an independent politician. On 16 September 2018, Phelps announced she would run as an independent candidate in the 2018 Wentworth by-election, occasioned by the resignation from Parliament of Malcolm Turnbull following his removal as Prime Minister.
She was elected with a majority of 1,851 votes (1.2 points in two-party-preferred terms), constituting a 19-point swing in what had been a safe Liberal seat.
However, on 20 May 2019, she conceded defeat in the 2019 federal election to the Liberal candidate Dave Sharma.