Professor Robert Atkins

Head, Kidney Disease Prevention Unit

AM, MBBS, MSc, DSc, FRACP

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Professor Bob Atkins is one of Australia’s most eminent nephrologists and now Heads the Kidney Disease Prevention Unit in this Department. He was Director of the Department of Nephrology at Monash Medical Centre from its inception in 1972 until 2005. 

Professor Atkins was a founding editor of “Nephrology” and has served on the editorial boards of a wide range of prestigious journals.   He has is a Director of the International Diabetes Institute, Chairman of the National Chronic Kidney Disease Strategy Programme, Asian Pacific Coordinator for the Collaborative Study Group, Head of AusDiab Kidney, and a reviewer for the WHO Chronic Kidney Disease Programme. 

His work has been widely recognised.  He won the inaugural Priscilla Kincaid-Smith Award of the Australian Kidney Foundation, Medal for Excellence in Kidney Research (1994), a Centenary Medal for Australia in 2003 and received the Order of Australia (AM) in 2003.

Professor Atkins holds an MBBS from the University of Melbourne, a M.Sc. from the University of Colorado and D.Sc. from Monash University.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians (FRACP).