Professor Richard Larkins

Chairman, Deans Advisory Board

Richard Larkins is an Emeritus Professor, Monash University.  He was Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University from September 2003 to July 2009.  Prior to his appointment at Monash University he was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne from 1998 to 2003.  Before that he was Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, holding the James Stewart Chair at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1984 to 1997.  Other appointments held from time to time at the Royal Melbourne Hospital included Head of the Division of Medicine, Head of a General Medical Unit and Director of Diabetes and Endocrinology.  He had previous academic and clinical appointments at the Austin, Repatriation Medical Centre.  His clinical and research interests are in diabetes, endocrinology and general medicine.

Professor Larkins’s qualifications are MDBS and LLD(Hon) from the University of Melbourne, PhD from the University of London.  He is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of the Physicians, the Royal College of Physicians (London), the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia and the Academy of Medicine of Singapore and he has been awarded honorary Fellowships by the American College of Physicians, the Royal College of Physicians of Thailand and the Ceylon College of Physicians.

Past positions held by Professor Larkins include Chair of Universities Australia, Chair of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, President of the Endocrine Society of Australia, Chair of the Accreditation Committee of the Australian Medical Council, member on two occasions of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council and a member of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health  Council.  He was a member of the Doherty Committee of Inquiry into Medical Education and the Workforce.

Professor Larkins has been awarded the Eric Susman Prize for Medical Research, the Sir William Upjohn Medal for distinguished service to medicine, the Centenary of Federation Medal and is a Fellow of Trinity College, University of Melbourne and an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia.

Professor Larkins’s current roles include President of the National Stroke Foundation, President of Australian University Sport, Chair of the Council of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Australia), Chair of the Research and Education Foundation of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Chair of the Incorporated Joint Venture Board for the Parkville (Victorian) Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Chair of the Biosciences Victoria Collaborative, Chair of the Victorian Selection Committee of the General Sir John Monash Foundation, Chair of the Council of Melbourne Grammar School, member of the Board of the Florey Neuroscience Institutes and International Trustee of the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation (Malaysia).