'Isobel Mary (Pixie) Annat grew up in rural Queensland and trained to be a nurse shortly after World War II. Working first at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, she went on to forge an extraordinary career as matron, then CEO, of St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital in Brisbane.' (Source : UQP website http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1341/Pixie%20Annat-%20Champion%20of%20Nurses )