Education and Training
Valerie Beral was born in Australia on 28 July 1946. She completed her Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree graduating with first-class honours from the University of Sydney in 1969.
She then spent six months travelling the "hippie trail" through Asia of which she said "That taught me how much I wanted to work. But I still wanted to leave Australia." She then travelled to England where a friend working at the Hammersmith Hospital told of her of a job that she applied for and got.
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