The David Dewhurst award is a bronze medal bestowed by

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and is the most distinguished accolade within their biomedical engineering discipline. It is named in honour of David John Dewhurst (1919 - 1996), an outstanding Australian biophysicist and biomedical engineer who performed pioneering work in the area of the

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. The award was inaugurated in 1994 as the Eminent Biomedical Engineers Award and its first winner was David Dewhurst. Following his death in 1996 the award’s name was changed to the David Dewhurst Award as a permanent memorial.

Recipients

* 1996 Keith Daniel, Nucleus Ltd. * 1997 Peter C. Farrell,

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* 1998 George Kossoff,

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* 1999 Richard Kirsner,

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* 2000 Klaus Schindhelm,

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* 2001 Alex Watson, Premier Biomedical Engineering Pty Ltd * 2002 Barry Seeger * 2003 Laurie Knuckey * 2004 Mark Pearcy * 2005 John Southwell * 2006 John Symonds * 2007

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* 2009 Andrew Downing,

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* 2010 Alexander McLean * 2011 Graham Grant * 2012 David Burton, Compumedics * 2013 Nigel Lovell,

* 2014 James F. Patrick,

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* 2015

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* 2016

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 ...

* 2017 Walter John Russell,

* 2018 Christopher Bertram,

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* 2019

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* 2020 * 2021 Leo Barnes, TUV SUD GmbH

References

{{reflist Australian science and technology awards Engineering awards Awards established in 1996

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