Awards and Recognition

The Society congratulates the following recent recipient of an Australia Day award:

Professor Robert Graham Cumming AO has been awarded Officer of the Order of Australia in the General Division of the Order of Australia

For distinguished service to medical education and research, particularly to ageing and age-related diseases.

University of Sydney

• Professor of Epidemiology and Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, since 2003.
• Deputy Head, School of Public Health, 2014-2017.
• Director, Master of International Health Program, 2009-2017.
• Associate Dean, Postgraduate Coursework, Faculty of Medicine, 2008-2013.
• Professor in Residence, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 2008.
• Associate Dean, School of Population Health and Health Services Research, 2000-2002.
• Head, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, 2000-2002.
• Associate Professor in Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, 1998-2002.
• Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, 1993-1997.
• Lecturer in Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, 1990-1992.
• Group Leader, Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project (CHAMP), current.

Medicine – Other

• Chair, National Dementia Guidelines Committee, Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, NHMRC, 2014-2015.
• Secretary, Australasian Epidemiological Association, 1996-2001.
• Member, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research, current.

Awards and recognition includes:

• Clarivate (Thomas Reuters) Highly Cited Researcher, 2016.
• Distinguished Professorial Service Award, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, 2011.
• Life Member, Australasian Epidemiological Association, 2010.