Dr Ken Winkel, a leading Australian toxinologist, is the former Director of the Australian Venom Research Unit (AVRU), and continues as a Senior Research Fellow, at the University of Melbourne. He is also affiliated with the Nossal Institute of Global Health and is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (ACTM).
He is an alumnus of the University of Melbourne (PhD, Walter and Elisa Hall Institute), the University of Queensland (MBBS) (BMedSci, Tropical Health Program, QIMR) and the Swiss Tropical Institute (Master of International Health Advanced module, Basel). He has worked in Brazil, PNG, Canada, and the USA and is a Past President of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (ACTM). He is the Chair of the ACTM Special Interest Group in Toxinology. Dr Winkel is a CSL IH Group consultant on venoms and envenomation, and is part of the team behind the 24 hour medical advisory service provided by AVRU to doctors, poisons information centres and paramedical personnel. He is also a member of the Queensland Government Marine Stinger Advisory Committee Research Working Group. Dr Winkel is also active in teaching, lecturing to medical and science students and graduates, and has presented more than 100 papers and posters at Australian and international meetings and published more than 70 papers on venoms and related areas, including in the Lancet. The Unit is particularly involved in envenomation research in the Asia-Pacific and he is a co-editor of the first book on Venomous Bites and Stings in PNG. His work has attracted more than $1m in funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. In 2008 every Australian school received a copy of the AVRU's children book on venomous bites and stings ['Venom Patrol'].
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SnakeMap: four years of experience with a national small animal snake envenomation registry.
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Research Contracts
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
The Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Tropical Medicine
The Vita Lampada Medal for Excellence in Medical and Health Education
FACTM - Fellow of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
Credentials
Positions
Coordinator, Population Health
Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health
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Biosciences
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Biosciences
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Architecture, Building And Planning
Ordinary
International Society of Toxinology
Ordinary
Medical Indemnity Protection Society
International
American College of Emergency Physicians
Ordinary
Wilderness Medical Society
Ordinary
Australian Society of Immunology
Ordinary
Australian Medical Association
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Medical Science
The University of Queensland
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery
The University of Queensland