Ann Elizabeth Jervie Sefton AO (born 8 July 1936)[1][2] is an Australian neurologist and educator.
[1] She studied medicine at the University of Sydney, graduating with a BSc (Med) in 1957, a MBBS in 1960, a PhD in 1966 and a DSc in 1990.
She initiated the development of a new type of medical education program, moving away from memorisation and rote-learning, and instead integrating clinical reasoning, critical appraisal and problem solving.
[2] Sefton also joined the Faculty of Dentistry as associate Dean part-time from 1999 to 2001, helping to develop their graduate dental program.
[1][2][4] She was also made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2000 "for service to medical education, particularly in the area of reform and the development of a graduate medical programme, and to physiology and research in the field of neuroscience through the study of the function and structure of the visual pathways of the brain.