2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours Recipients

Congratulations to all the recipients of Queen’s Birthday Honours. Many of our member directors, scientists and supports were awarded honours.

We’ve compiled a list of all those awarded honours for their services to medical research. Please contact AAMRI (aimee.sanderson@aamri.org.au) if you see any omissions in the below list.

 

Officer (AO) in the general division

Emeritus Professor Perry Francis BARTLETT
QLD
For distinguished service to neuroscience research, and to people living with dementia, motor neurone disease, and spinal cord injury.

 

Professor Graeme Laurence BARNES
VIC
For distinguished service to medicine, particularly to child gastrointestinal health, and to medical research.

 

Professor Marcello COSTA
SA
For distinguished service to higher education, and to medical research, in the field of neurophysiology, and to professional scientific bodies.

 

Emeritus Professor Suzanne Mary CROWE AM
VIC
For distinguished service to health and aged care administration, to clinical governance, biomedical research, and to education.

 

Dr Catherine Patricia FOLEY PSM
NSW
For distinguished service to research science, to the advancement of women in physics, and to professional scientific organisations.

 

Professor Simon Robert FINFER
NSW
For distinguished service to intensive care medicine, to medical research and education, and to global health institutes.

 

Professor Georgina Venetia LONG
NSW
For distinguished service to medicine, particularly to melanoma clinical and translational research, and to professional medical societies.

 

Professor Isabella Caroline McMILLEN
SA
For distinguished service to medical science, and to tertiary education, to the community of South Australia, and to social equity.

 

Professor Graham Lorimer MOSELEY
SA
For distinguished service to medical research and science communication, to education, to the study of pain and its management, and to physiotherapy.

 

Dr George Arthur WERTHER
VIC
For distinguished service to medicine, to paediatric endocrinology and research, and to professional medical organisations.

 

Members (AM) in the general Division

Professor Kaye Enid BASFORD
QLD
For significant service to tertiary education, to the biomedical sciences, and to scientific academies.

 

Emeritus Professor Robert Charles BAXTER
NSW
For significant service to medical research, to endocrinology, and to tertiary education.

 

Professor Neil Murray DREW
WA
For significant service to tertiary education, to behavioural science, and to Indigenous health.

 

Professor Matthew Todd GILLESPIE
VIC
For significant service to tertiary education administration, and to medical research.

 

Dr Phoebe Joy HO
NSW
For significant service to medical research, to haematology, and to professional bodies.

 

Emeritus Professor Rhondda Elizabeth JONES
QLD
For significant service to tertiary education administration, to science, and to tropical health.

 

Mr Mario Guiseppe PENNISI
QLD
For significant service to the biomedical sector, to commercialisation initiatives, and to research.

 

Professor Sheena REILLY
QLD
For significant service to tertiary education, to medical research, and to paediatric speech pathology.

 

Professor Andrew Warwick ROBERTS
VIC
For significant service to medical research, to haematology, and to cancer organisations.

 

Mr Peter John SCOTT
VIC
For significant service to the investment banking sector, and to medical research organisations.

 

Distinguished Professor Patricia YATES
QLD
For significant service to tertiary education, to cancer and palliative care nursing, and to medical research.

 

Professor Jeanine YOUNG
QLD
For significant service to tertiary education, to medical research, and to nursing.

 

Order of Australia Medals (OAM) in the General division

Mr Philip CUNNINGHAM
NSW
For service to medical research, and to sexual health medicine.

 

Dr Sarah Elizabeth MEDLAND
QLD
For service to medical research in the field of genetics.