Prof George Fink, FRSE's Biography

Prof George Fink, FRSE's Professional Career

Career

jr and sr house offr Royal Melbourne and Alfred Hospitals Victoria Aust 1961-62, demonstrator in anatomy Monash Univ Victoria 1963-64, Nuffield Dominions demonstrator Univ of Oxford 1965-67, sr lectr in anatomy Monash Univ Victoria 1968-71, lectr Univ of Oxford 1971-80, offical fell in physiology and med Brasenose Coll Oxford 1974-80, dir MRC Brain Metabolism Unit 1980-99, hon prof Univ of Edinburgh 1984-99, vice-pres Research Pharmos Corp 1999-2003 (conslt 2003), dir Psychiatric Neuroscience Mental Health Research Inst Aust 2003-04, dir Mental Health Research Inst Aust 2004-06 (hon prof res fell 2007-); prosector in anatomy Univ of Melbourne 1956 (hon prof Centre for Neuroscience and Dept of Psychiatry 2007-); Royal Soc and Israel Acad exchange fell Weizmann Inst 1979, Wolfson lectr Univ of Oxford 1982, Walter Cottman fell and visiting prof Monash Univ 1985 and 1989, first G W Harris lectr Physiological Soc Cambridge 1987, Arthur M Fishberg visiting prof The Mt Sinai Med Sch NYC 1988, visiting prof of neurobiology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota 1993, visiting prof Dept of Neurobiology Rockefeller Univ 1996-; memb: Cncl of the Euro Neuroscience Assoc 1980-82 and 1994-96, Mental Health Panel Wellcome Tst 1984-89, Steering Ctee Br Neuroendorcine Gp 1984-88 (tstee 1990-2000), Co-ordinating Ctee ESF Network on Neuroimmunomodulation 1990-92; chm External Monitoring Panel and 5 Year Review Ctee EU Biomedicine Prog, memb Physiological Soc, memb Pharmacological Soc, sr memb Soc for Endocrinology (UK), emeritus memb Endocrine Soc (USA), emeritus memb Soc for Neuroscience (USA), memb Int Brain Research Orgn, memb Int Soc for Neuroendocrinology, memb European Neuroendocrine Assoc (pres 1991-95), memb BMA, emeritus memb Genetics Soc of America, memb Int Coll of Neuro-Psychopharmacology 2012; hon memb Br Soc for Neuroendocrinology 2005; Lifetime Achievement Award Int Soc Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE) 2000; FRSE 1989, FRSA 1996, FRCPEd 1998

Prof George Fink, FRSE's Publications

Books and Publications

Neuropepides - Basic and Critical Aspects (jt ed, 1982), Neuroendocrine Molecular Biology (jt ed, 1986), Transmitter Molecules in the Brain (1987), Neuropeptides: A Methodology (jt ed, 1989), Encyclopedia of Stress (ed-in-chief, 2000, BMA Commendation for Mental Health, 2 edn 2007), Stress Science: Neuroendocrinology (2009), Stress Consequences: Mental, Neuropsychological and Socioeconomic (2009), Stress of War, Conflict and Disaster (2010), Handbook of Neuroendocrinology (2012); author of over 360 scientific pubns, mainly on neuroendocrinology, neuroendocrine molecular biology and psychoneuroendocrinology

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