Dr. David Newman

MBBS, DipAvMed, PhD
Senior Lecturer

Phone: +61 3 9903 0555
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David Newman spent over 12 years in the RAAF as a medical officer and aviation medicine specialist. He completed aviation medicine courses in the US and UK, including the Diploma of Aviation Medicine through the Royal College of Physicians, London. David completed his PhD in physiology and is a member of the Aerospace Medical Association. He was awarded the 2000 Arnold D Tuttle Award for the most significant contribution to aerospace medicine research and was recently elected to be the Chairman of the 2001 International Acceleration Research Workshop.

He is also an active pilot and has flown 150 hours in high performance aircraft such as the F/A-18 and Harrier. David is coordinating the Australian Certificate of Aviation Medicine course which is run by this Department.