Scientific Advisory Committee
Professor
David Penington AC
Agraduate of Oxford University, David was a medical practitioner, teacher
and researcher in London. He returned to Australia and was appointed Professor
of Medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1970 and Dean of the Faculty
of Medicine from 1978 to 1986. In 1988 Professor Penington was appointed
a Companion of the Order of Australia for services to medicine and the
community.
He has been Chairman of the National Blood Transfusion Committee of the Australian
Red Cross Society, Director of the Tianjin Blood Transfusion Development
Program, Chief Adviser on Health Policy to the Victorian Health Department
and Board member of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Walter and Eliza
Hall Institute, the Peter McCallum Cancer Institute and the Ludwig Institute
for Cancer Research. David was a former Chairman of Cochlear Limited (the Company which developed
and manufactures the "bionic ear"). He is Professor Emeritus
of the University of Melbourne.
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