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Making Waves: Medicine, Public Health, Universities and Beyond
David Penington
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Description for Making Waves: Medicine, Public Health, Universities and Beyond
Hardcover. At every stage of his career, David Penington has never shunned public controversy, driven by a passion for education and for universities both in medicine and society more broadly, for research and developmen evidence based policies and seeking to apply new knowledge for the benefit of society Num Pages: 392 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; BGTA; MBN; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 856.
Throughout his academic and medical careers, David Penington has been an agent of change. In his fascinating memoirs, one of Australia's leading public health experts and the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne reveals his ethos, drives and the highs and lows of a life built on making waves. Appointed at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, he fostered new medical research specialty areas in haematology, medical oncology, endocrinology, gastroenterology and later neurology, and renal disease--a strategic development for a public hospital in the early 1970s. At the University of Melbourne, he was Professor and then Dean of the ... Read more
Throughout his academic and medical careers, David Penington has been an agent of change. In his fascinating memoirs, one of Australia's leading public health experts and the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne reveals his ethos, drives and the highs and lows of a life built on making waves. Appointed at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, he fostered new medical research specialty areas in haematology, medical oncology, endocrinology, gastroenterology and later neurology, and renal disease--a strategic development for a public hospital in the early 1970s. At the University of Melbourne, he was Professor and then Dean of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Carlton, Australia
ISBN
9780522857443
SKU
V9780522857443
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Ref
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About David Penington
David Penington is a medical doctor whose subsequent career included 17 years as professor of medicine and seven years as chair of the Red Cross’ National Blood Transfusion Committee. He is a former vice chancellor of the University of Melbourne and a former chair of Cochlear Ltd.
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