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The Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences announced the induction of five new Fellows from UWA at its first Annual Scientific Meeting in Canberra on 6 October.

Professor Wendy Erber, our new Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Professors Donna Cross and Susan Prescott, both of the Telethon Kids Institute, and Professor Peter Klinken of the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research were inducted as new Fellows through ordinary election.

UWA’s Professor Fiona Stanley was also inducted as an Honorary Fellow of the Academy, an acknowledgment of her significant contributions to academic medicine in Australia and to the establishment of the Academy.

Those elected to Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences have demonstrated distinguished professional achievement in a field related to health and/or medicine, as well as outstanding leadership and significant involvement with issues of health care, prevention of disease, education, research, health services policy and delivery.

The University of Western Australia congratulates the new Fellows for this outstanding recognition of their achievements.