Professor Allan McLean is a Physician formally trained in General Medicine, Vascular Medicine and Geriatric Medicine who has held a number of senior clinical appointments in General Medicine and Geriatric Medicine at hospitals inlcuding The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The Canberra Hospital, Greater Murray Health Services and The Alfred Hospital.
He was educated at the University of Tasmania, Monash Medical School, Stanford University, University of Texas, State University of New York, McMaster University and University of London. He graduated in Physiology and Pharmacology (BMed Sci) in 1965, Medicine (MB,BS Hons I) in 1968, and Immunopharmacology and Toxicology (PhD) in 1976.
Over the last decade he completed business management studies in the areas of general business management (MBA) and Technology Management.
He has held academic appointments at Monash University, Stanford University, University of Texas, State University of New York, University of Sydney, University of Canberra, Australian National University, University of Melbourne and Christian Albrecht University Medical School (Kiel, Germany). His teaching experience is broadly based across undergraduate, postgraduate and professional education domains using traditional and adult learning delivery systems. His particular areas of teaching interest are in medicinal therapeutics, ageing biology and health services management.
His research has been supported by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, the National Institutes of Health (USA), and the Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft. He has published some 200 refereed papers, several books, as well as many book chapters and major reports. His research interests and publications range across the fields of vascular biology, basic and clinical pharmacology and physiology, immunology, toxicology, microbiology and clinical therapeutics.
He has served on many institutional, professional, State and Federal committees, including the Working Group on Healthy Ageing and Prevention which reported to the Prime Ministers Science Engineering and Innovation Committee (PMSEIC) in 2003. |
