Dr Elinor Atkinson

MB BS, FRANZCOG

Craft Group Representative for Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Dr Elinor Atkinson is a senior consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology at Flinders Medical Centre, and a clinical senior lecturer at Flinders University. Her clinical interests include obstetrics, gynaecological endoscopy and colposcopy. After working as a full-time consultant at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital from 1993 -2002, she continues to provide paediatric and adolescent gynaecology services at WCH as well as Flinders Medical centre.

She trained at the Royal Adelaide, Queen Victoria and The Queen Elizabeth Hospitals, with two years at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK. A member of several special interest groups in obstetrics and gynaecology, she was foundation secretary and treasurer of the Australian Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology and a past president of the Australian Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Dr Atkinson is an examiner for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RANZCOG) Diploma of Obstetrics, and has been active on the SA State Committee of RACOG and RANZCOG’s SA Training and Accreditation Committee.