Marilyn Kong is a Worimi doctor who grew up in Port Stephens, New South Wales. She credits her mother, Grace Kinsella, one of the first Indigenous registered nurses in Australia, for inspiring her and her two siblings, Marlene (her twin sister) and Kelvin, to become doctors. Their father, Malaysian-Chinese Dr Kong Cheok Seng, is also a doctor, living in Malaysia. Marlene and Marilyn were the first Indigenous medical graduates from the University of Sydney and their younger brother Kelvin graduated from UNSW to become Australia's first Indigenous surgeon. In 2000 Marilyn spent twelve months with Australian Volunteers Abroad in Papua New Guinea, which inspired her to become an obstetrician and gynaecologist. She obtained her Fellowship from the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists in 2007, the first Indigenous person to do so. Marilyn's practice is located in Coffs Harbour and she is also chair of RANZCOG's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Health Committee.
