巴希尔教授于2001年3月开始担任新南威尔士州的州督。此前，在1993年到2001年期间，她曾担任悉尼大学医药系的精神病学教授。
巴希尔教授在1956年毕业于悉尼大学，获得了医药学士学位与外科学士学位。2002年，在悉尼大学的150周年庆典上，巴希尔教授获得了悉尼大学的医药荣誉博士学位。
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Professor Marie Bashir elected University Chancellor
Professor Bashir, Governor of New South Wales, was formally elected to the honorary position by The University Senate. She will take up her new role as the University's seventeenth Chancellor in June, replacing Justice Kim Santow who is stepping down after five and a half years in the position. Professor Bashir's appointment as Chancellor of The University of Sydney is for a period of four years commencing on 1 June 2007.
Prior to her appointment as Governor on 1 March 2001, she held a senior position as clinical professor of psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University from 1993 to 2001.
She is a graduate of The University of Sydney, with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (1956). Professor Bashir was awarded an Honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine from The University of Sydney in 2002 to mark the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of the University.
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