Professor Paul Gerard McMenamin is an Australian academic and researcher specialising in the structure and immunology of the eye.
Education
McMenamin completed his secondary schooling at Street Leonards" Comprehensive Secondary School, Easterhouse, Glasgow. In 1978 he completed an Honours degree in zoology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland). From 1978 to 1981, he was a research student at Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology in Glasgow.
In 1986, he completed his Master of Science in anatomical sciences at Glasgow and recently was awarded the highest degree possible at the University of Glasgow by the Faculty of Medicine (Doctor of Science) for his work over 27 years on the anatomy, pathology and immunology of the eye.
He taught anatomical sciences including histology, neuroanatomy, embryology and topographical anatomy.
Career
From 1983 to 1987, McMenamin was a research assistant at the University of Glasgow’s Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology and also a lecturer in the University’s Department of Anatomy. From 1987 to 1991 he was a lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia, in Perth. In 1992, he became a senior lecturer, and in 1998 was made Associate Professor of the Department of Anatomy and Human Biology.
Since 2003 he has been a Professor in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology.
From 2002 to 2004 he was an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Auckland. From 2004 until 2007 he was the Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning at University of Western Australia’s Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.
In 2007, he was an Honorary Professor at the Lions Eye Institute’s Centre for Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, and in 2008 spent his sabbatical year at the Institute. He was awarded the highest degree of Doctorate.Sc (Medicine) by Glasgow University in 2010.
In 2009 he was given life membership of WAMSS (Western Australian Medical Students" Society) in recognition of his teaching of anatomy.
He was appointed as Professor of Anatomy and Director of Centre for Human Anatomy, in the Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology at Monash University in Melbourne in early 2010.