David Penington

David Geoffrey Penington (4 February 1930 – 6 January 2023) was an Australian doctor, academic and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.

Biography Penington was educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School, and later Scotch College, Melbourne (1940–1947). He obtained BM.Bch and later Doctorate in Medicine at the University of Oxford and a Doctorate in Laws (Hon.) at the University of Melbourne. He initially had a career in medicine in the United Kingdom at the London Hospital between 1957 and 1967, and also in Harley Street until 1967. He was then Professor of Medicine from 1970 to 1987 at the University of Melbourne, and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine between 1978 and 1985. He chaired a Committee of Inquiry into the Rights of Private Practice (Medicare Dispute) in 1984 and the National AIDS Task Force 1983–87. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne from 1988 to 1995.

Penington died on 6 January 2023, at the age of 92.

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