Background
I'ENINGTON, David was born on February 4, 1930 in Melbourne. Son of Geoffrey A. Penington and Marjorie D. Fricke.
chancellor medical practitioner
I'ENINGTON, David was born on February 4, 1930 in Melbourne. Son of Geoffrey A. Penington and Marjorie D. Fricke.
Scotch College Melbourne, University of Melbourne and Magdalen College Oxford.
Lecturer, Medical College London Hospital 1957-1960, physician, London Hospital 1963-1967. First Assistant Medicine, University of Melbourne 1968-1970. Professor, and Chair, of Department University of Melbourne 1970-1987, Chairman Board of Social Studies 1970-1975, Dean, Faculty of Medicine 1978-1987, Vice-Chancellor since 1988.
Physician, St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne 1970-1987. Research Fellow, Wolfsun College Oxford 1975-1976. Foundation Chairman N. Richmond Family Care Centre 1973-1975.
President Haematology Society of Australia 1975-1977. Vice-President Institute Society of Haematology 1978-1982. Chairman Working Party on AIDS (later AIDS Task Force) 1983-1987.
Other professional appointments.
Manager Board Walter & Eliza Hall Institute since 1978, Cancer Institute 1978-1987. Australian Red Cross National Council 1976-1983.
Married 1st Audrey M. Grummitt in 1956 (divorced), 2nd Sonay Hussein 1984.