Professor David Currow FAHMS
Professor David Currow is a physician by training and is currently the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Sustainable Futures) at The University of Wollongong.
David is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Sustainable Future) at the University of Wollongong and is still an active researcher. David was the Chief Executive Officer of the Cancer Institute NSW, the state's cancer control agency and the former Chief Cancer Officer of New South Wales (2010-2021).
He is a previous president of Palliative Care Australia and, separately, the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia. In 2015, David received the Tom Reeve National Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cancer Care from the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia.
He held the chair of Supportive and Palliative Care at Flinders University and more recently of Palliative Medicine at the University of Technology Sydney. David founded the Australian National Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative.
