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The Henry Douglas Stephens Memorial Operating Theatre at the Royal Children`s Hospital was named in honour of Henry Douglas Stephens (1877-1952), paediatric surgeon.

Stephens served at the Royal Children's Hospital for forty-five years and was also a consultant paediatrician at the Women's Hospital, Melbourne, from 1931–45. He co-founded the Melbourne Paediatric Society. From 1935 to 1940 he was Dean of the Clinical School at the Royal Children's Hospital, and he was a councillor of the Royal Victorian College of Nursing and the Victorian Society for Crippled Children.

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