The Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences is an academy to promote health and medical sciences in Australia. It was established in June 2014.
It cites
"The Academy will serve the three purposes identified as of high priority in the 2013 Strategic Review of Health and Medical Research":
* Mentoring the next generation of clinician researchers
* Providing independent advice to government and others on issues relating to evidence-based medical practice and medical researchers
* Providing a forum for discussion on progress on medical research with an emphasis on translation of research into practice
Fellowship
In 2014 the academy commenced awarding the honour of "Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences" to 50 medical scientists each year.
Elected fellows include:
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John Aitken elected 2015
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Warwick Anderson
Warwick Hugh Anderson (born 10 December 1958), medical doctor, poet, and historian, is Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History and the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, where he was p ...
(born 1958)
elected 2015
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Louise Baur elected 2014
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C. Glenn Begley elected 2015
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Samuel Berkovic (born 1953)
elected 2015
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Jeffrey Braithwaite elected 2017
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Richard Bryant (born 1960)
elected 2016
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Ed Byrne (born 1952)
elected 2015
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Jonathan Carapetis
Jonathan Carapetis (born 1961) is an Australian paediatric physician with particular expertise in infectious disease and Indigenous child health. He is a Winthrop Professor at the University of Western Australia, an infectious diseases consultan ...
(born 1961)
elected 2014
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John Carlin elected 2018
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Jeremy Chapman
Jeremy Robert Chapman (born 20 September 1953) is a British–Australian nephrologist, renal physician and transplant surgeon. He has been the director of the Division of Medicine and Cancer at Westmead Hospital in Sydney since 2007.
Early lif ...
(born 1953)
elected 2017
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Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Georgia Chenevix-Trench (born 8 February 1959) is an Australian cancer researcher who investigates genetic predispositions to cancer.
Chenevix-Trench was born in Nairobi, Kenya.''Who's Who Australian Women'' (2017), ConnectWeb. She received her ...
(born 1959)
elected 2015
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Helen Christensen elected 2015
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John Christodoulou
Yiannakis Theophani "John" Christodoulou (born 24 May 1965) is a Monaco-based British billionaire property developer, the owner of Yianis Group, a privately held company with a portfolio of residential, hotel, retail and leisure properties in t ...
elected 2017
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Arthur Christopoulos elected 2017
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Judith Clements elected 2017
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Clare Collins elected 2019
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David Cooper (1949–2018)
elected 2015
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Brendan Crabb (born 1966)
elected 2015
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Annette Dobson (born 1945)
elected 2015
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Peter C. Doherty
Peter Charles Doherty (born 15 October 1940) is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Rolf M. Zinkerna ...
(born 1940)
elected 2015
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Stephen Duckett (born 1950)
elected 2015
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Sandra Eades (born 1967)
elected 2014
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Alan Finkel
Alan Simon Finkel (born 17 January 1953) is an Australian neuroscientist, inventor, researcher, entrepreneur, educator, policy advisor, and philanthropist. He was Australia’s Chief Scientist from 2016 to 2020. Prior to his appointment, his c ...
elected 2015
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Nicholas Fisk (born 1956)
elected 2015
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Ian Frazer
Ian Hector Frazer (born 6 January 1953) is a Scottish-born Australian immunologist, the founding CEO and Director of Research of the Translational Research Institute (Australia). Frazer and Jian Zhou developed and patented the basic technolo ...
(born 1953)
elected 2014
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Frank Gannon (born 1947)
elected 2015
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Katharina Gaus elected 2015
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Jozef Gécz elected 2015
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Paul Glasziou
Paul Philip Glasziou (born 21 May 1954) is an Australian academic physician known for his research in evidence-based medicine. He is Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Bond University, where he is also Director of the Faculty of Health Sc ...
(born 1954)
elected 2015
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Michael F. Good elected 2015
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Adele Green (born 1952)
elected 2015
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Michelle Haber (born 1956)
elected 2015
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Wayne Denis Hall elected 2015
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David Handelsman elected 2015
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Doug Hilton (born 1964)
elected 2015
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Michael Kidd
Michael Kidd (August 12, 1915 – December 23, 2007) was an American film and stage choreographer, dancer and actor, whose career spanned five decades, and staged some of the leading Broadway and film musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. Kidd, stron ...
(born 1959)
elected 2015
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Alison Kitson
Alison Kitson FRCN is inaugural Vice President and Executive Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University South Australia. She is also an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Educati ...
elected 2015
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Peter Klinken
Svend Peter Klinken (born 30 July 1953 in Singapore) is an Australian medical researcher and academic. He is currently the Chief Scientist of Western Australia.
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the June 2017 Queen ...
(born 1953)
elected 2015
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David de Kretser
David Morritz de Kretser, (born 27 April 1939) is an Australian medical researcher who served as the 27th Governor of Victoria, from 2006 to 2011.
Early life and medical career
David de Kretser was born in British Ceylon (now known as Sri La ...
(born 1939)
elected 2015
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Richard Larkins elected 2015
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Sharon Lewin
Sharon Ruth Lewin , is the inaugural Director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. She is also a Professor of Medicine at The University of Melbourne and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Practitioner ...
elected 2014
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Julio Licinio
Julio Licinio is an Australian American psychiatrist who is SUNY Distinguished Professor at State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. He is simultaneously Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Psychia ...
elected 2015
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Melissa Little elected 2015
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Fabienne Mackay
Fabienne Mackay is a French Australian research immunologist and institutional leader within the Australian medical research, education and innovation sectors. She is the Director and CEO of the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute (Brisbane, ...
elected 2016
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Stephen MacMahon elected 2015
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Caroline McMillen
Isabella Caroline McMillen, (born 23 September 1954) is an Australian medical and health academic and the incumbent Chief Scientist of South Australia since October 2018. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science ...
elected 2015
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Lisa Maher
Lisa Maher is Professor and head of Viral Hepatitis Epidemiology, at the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, at the University of New South Wales and was made Member of the Order of Australia in 2015. She was awarded an Elizabeth Black ...
elected 2017
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Barry Marshall
Barry James Marshall (born 30 September 1951) is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia. Mars ...
(born 1951)
elected 2015
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Nick Martin (born 1950)
elected 2015
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Colin L. Masters (born 1947)
elected 2015
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John Mattick
John Stanley Mattick (born 1950, Sydney) is an Australian molecular biologist known for his efforts to assign function to non-coding DNA. Mattick was the executive director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research from 2012 to 2018. He joi ...
(born 1950)
elected 2015
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Kirsten McCaffery
Kirsten McCaffery is a British-Australian public health researcher who is Principal Research Fellow and Director of Research at the Sydney School of Public Health. Her research considers the psychosocial aspects of over diagnosis in healthcare. ...
elected 2020
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Kathryn North elected 2014
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Susan Pond elected 2015
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John E. J. Rasko (born 1961)
elected 2015
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Karen Reynolds
Karen Reynolds is an Australian biomedical engineer. She is currently the Deputy Dean of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics at Flinders University and a Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor. Reynolds is the director of the Medic ...
elected 2015
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Maree Teesson elected 2015
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Jane Visvader elected 2016
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Claire Wainwright
Claire E. Wainwright is a paediatric respiratory physician and professor of pediatrics, residing and working in Queensland. She commenced her medical training in London and completed her specialist training at the Royal Children's Hospita ...
elected 2016
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Keryn Williams (born 1949)
elected 2016
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Fiona Wood
Fiona Melanie Wood (born 2 February 1958) is an English-born Australian plastic surgeon working in Perth, Western Australia. She is the director of the Royal Perth Hospital burns unit and the Western Australia Burns Service. In addition, Wo ...
(born 1958)
elected 2015
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Sophia Zoungas elected 2022
References
External links
Official website
Medical and health organisations based in Australia
2014 establishments in Australia
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