false

/content/dam/corporate/images/medicine-and-health/about/specialist-guide-cover.jpg

50%

Our people

Meet our leadership team and key management staff
  • https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff.html Our academic staff
  • https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/contact-us.html Contact us

m-hero--style-2

220.330.2x.jpeg 440w, 1280.1280.jpeg 1280w, 1440.964.2x.jpeg 2880w, 800.1200.2x.jpeg 1600w, 800.536.2x.jpeg 1600w, 440.295.2x.jpeg 880w, 440.660.2x.jpeg 880w, 220.147.2x.jpeg 440w

false

We bring together leading academics, researchers and practitioners in medicine and health, with a commitment to improving healthcare.

Dean

Professor John Prins MBBS PhD FRACP FAHMS

Professor John Prins is an active clinician-researcher with ongoing research activity in drug development for metabolic liver disease and diabetes, including through a spin-out company. John delivers face-to-face and virtual care in high-risk pregnancy at Mt Isa and far north-west Queensland. He remains preoccupied with the challenges of improving health care delivery, including via research translation, and of training health practitioners for the future.

Professor Prins joined the Faculty of Medicine and Health as Dean of the faculty in September 2025. His previous roles include Executive Director, Health Translation Queensland; Chair of the Australian Health Research Alliance; Head of the University of Melbourne Medical School; and CEO of the Mater Hospital Group.

Read the Dean's welcome message.

60

manual

Link

Key faculty staff

  • Professor John Prins, Executive Dean, Medicine and Health
  • Kate Jensen, Faculty General Manager
  • Ruth Crilly, Executive Assistant to Interim Executive Dean
  • Laura Vasta, Executive Assistant to General Manager and Director, Faculty Strategy and Partnerships

  • Professor Ryan Naylor, Associate Dean (Education) (Interim)
  • Professor Carolyn Day, Associate Dean (Research Education)
  • Professor Mary Collins, Associate Dean (Research) (Interim)
  • Professor Meredith Makeham, Associate Dean (Community and Primary Health Care)
  • Rick Macourt, Associate Dean (Indigenous Strategy and Services)
  • Susan Woodbury, Executive Assistant to Associate Deans

 

  • Professor Sarah Roberts-Thomson, Deputy Executive Dean (Academic)
  • Professor Annemarie Hennessy, Deputy Executive Dean (Westmead)
  • Professor Camille Raynes-Greenow, Deputy Executive Dean (Research Centres) (Interim)
  • Bernadette Ralph, Acting Executive Assistant to Deputy Executive Deans

  • Professor Jane Bleasel, Head of School and Dean, Sydney Medical School
  • Professor Andrew McLachlan, Head of School and Dean, Sydney Pharmacy School
  • Associate Professor Wendy Gold, Head of School, School of Medical Sciences (Interim)
  • Professor Jaime Miranda, Head of School, Sydney School of Public Health
  • Professor Heiko Spallek, Head of School and Dean, Sydney Dental School
  • Professor Brendan McCormack, Head of School and Dean, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery
  • Professor Mark Halaki, Head of School and Dean, Sydney School of Health Sciences

 

  • Professor Stephen Twigg
    Head of Clinical School, Central 
  • Professor Mark Cooper
    Head of Clinical School, Concord
  • Professor Stephen Fuller
    Head of Clinical School, Nepean 
  • Professor Margaret Schnitzler
    Head of Clinical School, Northern
  • Professor Russell Dale
    Head of Clinical School, Children’s Hospital Westmead 
  • Professor Henry Pleass
    Head of Clinical School, Westmead 
  • Associate Professor Melissa Kang
    Co-head of General Practice Clinical School
  • Associate Professor Fiona Robinson
    Co-head of General Practice Clinical School
  • Professor Debra Jones
    Head of Department and Head of Clinical School, Rural (Broken Hill) 
  • Professor Vicki Flood
    Director and Head of Clinical School (Northern Rivers)
  • Associate Professor Catherine Hawke
    Head, Rural Clinical School (Dubbo/Orange) 

Please visit our find a researcher section or refer to the staff directory for contact information.

To learn more about our research expertise or to find a researcher associated with a particular school, please refer to individual school websites:

30

manual

Link