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
Louise Baur AM FAHMS is an Australian paediatrician with a research interest in childhood obesity. In 2015 she was appointed professor and head of paediatrics and child health (subsequently renamed Child and Adolescent Health) at the University of ...
elected 2014
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C. Glenn Begley
C. Glenn Begley is a hematologist and oncologist who was the CEO of BioCurate, an Australia-based joint venture between the University of Melbourne and Monash University that was launched in 2016. Previously, he worked at the California-based biot ...
elected 2015
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Samuel Berkovic
Professor Samuel Frank Berkovic (born 1953) is an Australian neurologist and Laureate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne and Director of the Epilepsy Research Centre at Austin Health.
Education
He earned a Bach ...
(born 1953)
elected 2015
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Jeffrey Braithwaite
Jeffrey Braithwaite BA NE DipIR, MIR yd MBA acq PhD NSW FIML, FACHSM, FAAHMS, FFPHRCP K FAcSS K Hon FRACMA is an Australian professor, health services and systems researcher, writer and commentator, with an international profile and affili ...
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 (born 1961)
elected 2014
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John Carlin John Carlin may refer to:
* John Carlin (actor) (1929–2017), Scottish actor
* John Carlin (painter) (1813-1891), American painter
* John Carlin (businessman) (born 1955), American entrepreneur, art historian and record producer
* John Carlin (fo ...
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
Scientia Professor Helen Christensen (AO) is Scientia Professor of Mental Health aUNSW Sydneyand Board Director oBlack Dog Institute(commencing 1 January 2022). She is the former Executive Director and Chief Scientist at Black Dog Institute, havi ...
elected 2015
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John Christodoulou elected 2017
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Arthur Christopoulos elected 2017
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Judith Clements elected 2017
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Clare Collins
Clare Elizabeth Collins is an Australian dietician who is Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Newcastle. She serves as Director for Research in the School of Health Sciences and Deputy Director of the Priority Research C ...
elected 2019
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David Cooper (1949–2018)
elected 2015
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Brendan Crabb
Brendan Scott Crabb FASM (born 13 September 1966) is an Australian microbiologist, research scientist and director and chief executive officer of the Burnet Institute, based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Background and early career
Educa ...
(born 1966)
elected 2015
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Annette Dobson
Annette Jane Dobson (born 4 September 1945) is a Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Queensland's Australian Women and Girl's Health Research (AWaGHR) Centre in the School of Public Health. Dobson was Director of the Australian Lon ...
(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
Stephen John Duckett (born 18 February 1950) is a health economist and think-tanker who has occupied many leadership roles in health services in both Australia and Canada, including as Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Agei ...
(born 1950)
elected 2015
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Sandra Eades
Sandra Eades (born 1967) is a Noongar physician, researcher and professor, and the first Aboriginal medical practitioner to be awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in 2003. As of March 2020 she is Dean of Medicine at Curtin University.
Early li ...
(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
David Higginbottom (14 October 1923 – 10 May 2016), pen name Nicholas Fisk, was a British writer of science fiction books, mainly for children. His works include ''Grinny'', ''You Remember Me'', ''Space Hostages'', and ''Trillions''. ...
(born 1956)
elected 2015
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Ian Frazer (born 1953)
elected 2014
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Frank Gannon
Frank (Bernard Francis Xavier) Gannon (born 1947, Ireland) was the seventh Director of QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia (2011 – 2020). He is a molecular biologist and has held high-profile appointments in scien ...
(born 1947)
elected 2015
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Katharina Gaus
Katharina Gaus (12 July 1972 – 3 March 2021) was a German-Australian immunologist and molecular microscopist. She was an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and founding head of the Cellular Membrane Biology Lab, part of the Centre for Vascular ...
elected 2015
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Jozef Gécz
Dr Jozef Gécz is a senior researcher at The University of Adelaide studying the various mutations of a small part of the X chromosome that lead to mental retardation.
Gécz was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sc ...
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 Scie ...
(born 1954)
elected 2015
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Michael F. Good elected 2015
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Adele Green
Adele Chandler Green (born 20 September 1952) is an Australian epidemiological senior scientist at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane and is the institute's Head of Cancer and Population Studies Group.
Green is an inter ...
(born 1952)
elected 2015
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Michelle Haber (born 1956)
elected 2015
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Wayne Denis Hall
Wayne Denis Hall ( AM) is Inaugural Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research at the University of Queensland. He was formerly an NHMRC Australia Fellow at the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research ( ...
elected 2015
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David Handelsman
David Joshua Handelsman, (Order of Australia, AO) is trained in Medicine and Endocrinology. His expertise is in testicular function and androgen physiology, pharmacology, and toxicology. His experience spans basic, clinical, and public health dom ...
elected 2015
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Doug Hilton
Douglas "Doug" James Hilton (born 13 June 1964 in England) is an Australian molecular biologist. He is the Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia and Head of the Department of Medical Biology ...
(born 1964)
elected 2015
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Michael Kidd (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 Lank ...
(born 1939)
elected 2015
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Richard Larkins
Richard Graeme Larkins (born 17 May 1943) is the former Chancellor of La Trobe University. He was the Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University from 2003 to June 2009. Prior to this, he had a distinguished career in medicine, scientif ...
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
Melissa Helen Little is an Australian scientist and academic, currently Theme Director of Cell Biology, heading up the Kidney Regeneration laboratory at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She is also a Professor in the Faculty of Medic ...
elected 2015
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Fabienne Mackay elected 2016
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Stephen MacMahon
Stephen William MacMahon AO DSc FAA FMediSci FAHMS FACC is a British-Australian academic medical researcher, healthcare entrepreneur and founder of The George Institute for Global HealtHe holds professorial academic appointments in medicine at UNS ...
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 Sciences ...
elected 2015
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Lisa Maher elected 2017
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Barry Marshall (born 1951)
elected 2015
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Nick Martin (born 1950)
elected 2015
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Colin L. Masters
Colin Louis Masters (born 5 Feb 1947 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian neuropathologist who researches Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. He is laureate professor of pathology at the University of Melbourn ...
(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
Kathryn Nance North is a paediatric physician, neurologist, and clinical geneticist. In 2013, she was appointed Director of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and was named the David Danks Professor of Child Health Research at the Universi ...
elected 2014
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Susan Pond
Susan Margaret Pond is an Australian scientist and technologist, active in business and academia, and recognised for her contributions to medicine, biotechnology, renewable energy and sustainability. She is the current president of the Royal S ...
elected 2015
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John E. J. Rasko
John E. J. Rasko AO (born 1961) is an Australian clinical hematologist, pathologist and scientist whose research focuses on gene and stem cell therapy, experimental haematology and molecular biology. He directs the Department of Cell and Molecul ...
(born 1961)
elected 2015
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Karen Reynolds elected 2015
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Maree Teesson
Professor Maree Rose Teesson AC, FAAHMS, FASSA, is an Australian expert on mental health. She is the Director oThe Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Useand NHMRC Principal Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. Sh ...
elected 2015
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Jane Visvader
Jane Visvader is a scientist specialising in breast cancer research who works for the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia. She is the joint head of the Breast Cancer Laboratory with Geoff Lindeman.
Education
Visvader hol ...
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 Hospital, ...
elected 2016
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Keryn Williams
Professor Keryn Anne Williams is an Australian medical scientist who works in the field of ophthalmology. She was a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Medicine at Flinders University. Her research interests include clinical and experiment ...
(born 1949)
elected 2016
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Fiona Wood (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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