Strong Monash presence supports new medical academy
The newly-inducted AAHMS Fellows
A host of Monash University leaders and influential academics were inducted as new Fellows at the launch of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science (AAHMS) last month in Canberra.
Chancellor Dr Alan Finkel AO was joined by former Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Richard Larkins AO in leading the 11-strong Monash contingent.
The AAHMS brings together respected health and medical science minds to provide independent advice to government, industry and the community on issues relating to evidence-based medical practice and medical research in Australia.
Members of diverse specialist colleges and associations join forces in the academy with researchers and medical educators whose work has a clinical and translational focus. The academy plans to engage with all professional colleges and academies, as well as the National Health and Medical Research Council and government organisations.
Nine distinguished Monash academics join Dr Finkel and Professor Larkins as fellows of the new academy. They are:
- Professor Jamie Cooper, Deputy Director, Head of Intensive Care Research, Senior Specialist in Intensive care, at The Alfred hospital;
- Professor Ross Coppel, Senior Deputy Dean and Director of Research of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences;
- Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor David de Kretser AC of the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology;
- Professor Stephen Jane, Head of Department of Medicine and Head of Central Clinical School;
- Professor Paul Myles, Head of Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Central Clinical School;
- Professor Robyn O’Hehir, Director of Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine at Alfred Health;
- Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld AM, Head of Division of Clinical Sciences and Head of Department of Surgery, Central Clinical School;
- Professor Euan Wallace AM, Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; and
- Professor John Zalcberg, Head of Cancer Research Program, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.