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Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Adelaide

Professor David Shearman AM MB, ChB, PhD, FRACP, FRCPE. is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Adelaide University 1975-1997, and previously held senior positions at Edinburgh and Yale Universities. He is author of many books relating to climate change, its science, consequences, democratic and international and economic implications; he served on the IPCC for two terms on health and scientific sections. He has been President of the Conservation Council of South Australia and with the late Professor Tony McMichael he founded Doctors for the Environment Australia in 2001 and was the Hon Secretary 2001- 2018. He is author and co-author of several hundred scientific and medical papers and writes frequently for the media. He was awarded an AM for service to medicine and to climate change.

Experience

  • –present
    Honorary Secretary, Doctors for the Environment

Education

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    Edinburgh University, PhD (Science)

Honours

AM