Biography

Professor Danny Liew is the Dean of Medicine and Head of the Adelaide Medical School at the University of Adelaide. He is also a Consultant Physician in General Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Danny assumed his current roles in Adelaide in January 2022. From 2015 to 2021, he was Distinguished Professor, Deputy Head of School (Education and Enterprise), Chair of Clinical Outcomes Research, and Co-Director of the Centre of Cardiovascular Research and Education (CCRE) at the Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. He was also a consultant physician in General Medicine at the Alfred Hospital.

Danny undertook his clinical training at Monash University and the Alfred Hospital, following which he completed a PhD (2006) at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. From 2007 to 2015, he was based at the University of Melbourne (Chair of Clinical Epidemiology 2010-2015), St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne (Deputy Director of General Medicine 2007-2010) and the Royal Melbourne Hospital (Head of Medical Unit 1 and Director of the Melbourne EpiCentre 2010-2015).

Danny's research capacity and interests lie in clinical epidemiology, health services research and health economics. His research productivity is highlighted by 400 peer-reviewed journal articles (H Index 53) and 9 book chapters, as well as over AUD $16 million in NHMRC, MRFF and ARC research funding. He is also a Principal Investigator in the Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly Extension Study (ASPREE-XT), which is funded by a AUD $40M grant from the US National Institutes of Aging, and an investigator two CRC programs with funds in excess of AUD $140 million.