Caroline de Costa

Caroline de Costa was Australia's first woman professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at James Cook University College of Medicine and Dentistry in Cairns, Queensland; she is now an adjunct professor at The Cairns Institute of JCU. She has spent more than 45 years as an obstetrician and gynaecologist and an academic teaching medical students and trainee doctors. De Costa is the author or co-author of more than 160 peer-reviewed papers on topics relevant to obstetrics and gynaecology.