Biographical entry Armstrong, Bruce Konrad (1944 - )

Summary

Bruce Armstrong is a leader in cancer research and management and is an authority on the causes and prevention of skin cancer and melanoma. He has also made important contributions towards the understanding of the causes and control of other cancers, high blood pressure and heart disease. To date, Armstrong has written close to 400 scientific publications and has presented his groups' findings at numerous national and international conferences and institutes. Presently he is employed as Professor of Public Health and Head of the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, Honorary Epidemiologist with the Cancer Council New South Wales, Conjoint Professor of the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Newcastle, Honorary Consultant in Clinical Epidemiology at the Sydney Cancer Centre, and Adjunct Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University. Despite this massive workload, Armstrong still finds time to be an active member, and often office bearer, of a multitude of scientific, medical and legislative organizations and societies. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) and of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (FAFPHM). He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to medicine through research in cancer epidemiology.

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1967

Education - Bachelor of Medical Science with Honours (BMSc (Hons)) completed at the University of Western Australia

1969

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) with honours completed at the University of Western Australia

1969 - 1970

Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Perth Hospital

1971

Career position - Medical Registrar at the Royal Perth Hospital

1972

Career position - Relieving Clinical Assistant Physician at the Royal Perth Hospital

1972

Career position - Lecturer in Medicine at the University of Western Australia

1972

Education - Diploma of Membership of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

1972 - 1975

Career position - Honorary Registrar and Locum Consultant Physician (sessional) at United Oxford Hospitals

1975 -

Award - Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)

1975

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Oxford, UK

1976 - 1977

Career position - Specialist Physician at the Repatriation General Hospital in Western Australia

1976 - 1979

Career position - Senior Lecturer in Medicine at the University of Western Australia

1977 - 1979

Career position - Director of Health Research and Planning in the Public Health Department of Western Australia

1979 - 1988

Career position - Director of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Research Unit in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Western Australia

1985 - 1986

Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington,, USA`

1987 - 1988

Career position - Professor of Epidemiology and Researcher at the University of Western Australia (funded by the Cancer Foundation of Western Australia)

1987 - 1988

Career position - Head of the Division of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Western Australia

1988 - 1990

Career position - Commissioner of Health for Western Australia with the Health Department of Western Australia

1990 -

Award - Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

1990 - 1991

Career position - Consultant Epidemiologist and Public Health Physician in private practice

1991 - 1993

Career position - Deputy Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France

1994 -

Career position - Adjunct Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University

1994 - 1996

Career position - Director of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

1995 - 1998

Career position - Member of the National Cancer Advisory Committee and Executive of the Australian Cancer Network

1996 -

Career position - Honorary Consultant in Clinical Epidemiology at the Sydney Cancer Centre, Central Sydney Area Health Service

1996 - 2002

Career position - Director of Cancer Research and Registers Division at the Cancer Council New South Wales

1998 -

Career position - Conjoint Professor at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Newcastle in New South Wales

1998

Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

1998 - 2002

Career position - Chair of the Cancer Strategies Group of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care

2000 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

2002 -

Career position - Honorary Epidemiologist with the Cancer Council New South Wales

2002 -

Career position - Professor of Public Health and Head School of Public Health at the University of Sydney

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• National Library of Australia, 'Armstrong, B K', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-626900. Details