Dr Margaret Gillies

Press, 9 June 1987, Page 50

Dr Margaret Gillies

PA Dunedin Dr Margaret Elspeth Gillies, a former senior lecturer in applied nutrition at the University of Otago home science faculty, has died in Dunedin. She was 58. Dr Gillies was born in Masterton and educated at Whangarei Girls’ High School before studying at the University of Auckland and then Otago where she graduated B.H.Sc. in 1951.

She qualified as a registered dietician at Green Lane Hospital in 1952. In 1954 she was awarded a Fulbright and American Home Economics Scholarship and studied at the University of Alabama where she obtained a masters’ degree.

She returned to Auck-

land Hospital and in 1960 became a research fellow in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, where she obtained a doctorate in endocrinology in 1968.

Specialist posts followed at various Australian institutions before Dr Gillies moved to Dunedin in 1976. She was senior lecturer in the home science faculty until illness forced her to retire last year. Dr Gillies was co-editor and a major contributor to a book on nutrition and health — “Today’s Food, Tomorrow’s Health,” — published by the university last year.

Dr Gillies was a life member of the Dietetics Association.