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Back in Adelaide Anne began her formal
training in psychiatry. She is now a clinical
senior lecturer in psychiatry at the University
of Adelaide and has been medical unit head
of Helen Mayo House for 29 years.
Mixed-up double date
Tony Williams and Anne Sved Williams, AM
Tony and Anne went on a double date with
some friends in their ûrst year of medicine –
but they weren9t partnering each other.
From this base of working with psychiatrically
unwell postnatal women and their infants,
she has helped develop services in perinatal
and infant mental health at the Women9s and
Children9s Hospital, and through much of
South Australia.
It wasn9t until the beginning of second
year their paths crossed again outside
the WEA book room – and this time
something clicked.
Anne remembers Tony had spent the
summer lumping wheat at his uncle9s
property and looked tanned and muscular.
Anne had just returned from a trip to
Melbourne and was glowing from her ûrst
love affair with someone else!
Their friendship blossomed over games
of bridge in the common room at medical
school but it wasn9t until fourth year when
things became serious.
By the end of the ûfth year Tony and Anne
were married on her parents9 front lawn and
have had rewarding and stimulating lives
together since.
Following graduation they were interns
at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, then GP
locums. They moved to the UK where Tony
trained in surgery, and Anne worked in
general practice, and they had two children,
Sean and Dara.
Tony has held senior positions at the Royal
Adelaide Hospital for many years. He was
head of hepatobiliary surgery, and the clinical
director of both gastrointestinal services and
operating services. He is currently the clinical
director of the hospital9s surgical specialties.
They returned to Adelaide for ûve years
before moving to New York as Tony wanted
to further specialise in hepatobiliary surgery.
Anne had started working in psychiatry,
her
