Dr Dilgir is an experienced obstetrician and gynaecologist who completed post-graduate medicine at Sydney University. Her first degree was a double major in food in nutritional sciences which she graduated with honours. She completed the majority of her training at St George Hospital in Sydney. She then moved to Townsville to undertake a fellowship in female pelvic floor surgery under the guidance of a world renown surgeon. After becoming a fully qualified obstetrician and gynaecologist she undertook further training in advanced laparoscopic surgery in order to become a member of the Australasian Gynaecologic Endoscopy Society (AGES).