Mary Deirdre Mahoney AO (14 June 1940 – 15 September 2021) was an Australian medical practitioner and academic.
[1] She was the eldest daughter of Irish nurse Brigid (née Cooney) and surgeon Konrad Hirschfeld.
Finding none existed she was told by Dr Peter Schmidt, of the Post Graduate Medical Education Committee (PGMEC), that if she found women keen to attend such a course, he would develop the curriculum for it.
[3] Mahoney was state director of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) training program for 25 years.
[4] Mahoney was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to medicine in the field of general practice, to tertiary education and university administration, and to the community through activities promoting the status of women and contributions to the early childhood education sector".