POSITION WITH ICAN: Board member of ICAN Australia

BACKGROUND:

Professor Frederick Mendelsohn is one of Australia’s most prominent neuroscientists.  He graduated from Medicine at The University of Melbourne in 1965 and continued his training as a medical registrar at the Royal Melbourne Hospital subsequently became an honorary physician (1971-1972) and then a senior physician (1977-1996) at the Austin Hospital, Melbourne. He completed his PhD in 1972 and has continued to develop a strong research background with over 295 publications. He held a personal chair in Medicine at the University of Melbourne from 1990-1996, and during this time was the Scientific Director, of the Positron Emission Tomography Centre, Austin Hospital.

Professor Mendelsohn was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2003 and received the Order of Australia, Officer in the General Division, in 2004.  In 2008 he retired in as the Director of the Howard Florey Institute at the University of Melbourne, a position he held since 1996.

Over 20 years ago, Professor Mendelsohn joined the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) after living in the USA for 12 months and being horrified at the number of nuclear weapons in the US and USSR. He was inspired by Helen Caldicott's activism and high profile, and amazed at the disinterest of other medicos and scientists.  He joined ICAN Australia’s Board in July 2009.

CONTACT:        

p) p) Via ICAN Australia office: +61 (0)3 9347 4795

e) fmendg(at)gmail.com