Derek Llewellyn-Jones (OBE, MD, FRCOG, FRACOG) was an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Sydney for 23 years. He was lauded as one of Australia's most quoted and quotable obstetricians, and was an early proponent of the movement for women to have greater choice in childbirth. He was President of the Australian Federation of Family Planning Associations and Chairman of the Better Health Commission of the Federal Government. He wrote numerous highly successful books including Breastfeeding: How to Succeed (1983), Sexually Transmitted Diseases (1992), and the international best-seller Everywoman, as well as the standard medical textbook Fundamentals of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Derek Llewellyn-Jones died of cancer in December 1997.
