Senior Associate Dean

Senior Associate Dean

Terry Campbell
BSc (Med) MBBS MD UNSW, DPhil Oxon, FRACP, FACC

Professor Campbell is the Professor of Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital, University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. He is Past President of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (2000-2), and is a Director of both the New South Wales Division and the National Boards of the National Heart Foundation of Australia. He was a member of the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee from 1992-8 and has been a member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee since 2001. In 2003 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).

Professor Campbell earned BSc(Med), MBBS degrees from UNSW. He then completed his postgraduate training in Cardiology at St Vincent's
Hospital, and completed a DPhil in Cardiac Pharmacology at Oxford University. Since that time he has worked at St Vincent's Hospital and UNSW in various positions, including Director of Cardiology, Director of the Coronary Care Unit and Deputy Director of Clinical Pharmacology. He has been Professor of Medicine at UNSW (St Vincent's Clinical School) since 1998 and was Clinical Associate Dean until 2006. He was appointed Associate Dean (Research) for Medicine at UNSW in 2004 and subsequently Senior Associate Dean in 2006.

Professor Campbell's research work has encompassed both basic laboratory research and clinical cardiology. His basic research includes cardiac electrophysiology and pharmacology, using patch-clamp methods to study individual cardiac ion channels and their modulation by drugs and more recently, their structure-function relationships. His clinical research activities have been related to drug therapy for arrhythmias, heart failure and ischaemic heart disease. He has published well over 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and has held competitive research funding from NHMRC and the National Heart Foundation since 1983 with the exception of two years.