Prof Anthony Cunningham (General Physician)

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Name
Prof Anthony Lawrence Cunningham
Qualifications
MBBS 1972
Fellow of the Australian Society for Microbiology Incorporated 1989
FRACP 1979
FRCPA (FFOP) 1985
Occupation
General Physician
Gender
Male
Languages Spoken
French
Medical Specialties
Internal Medicine

Tony Cunningham, AO, MBBS, MD, is Executive Director of the Westmead Millennium Institute (at Westmead Hospital) and of its Centre for Virus Research. He is Professor of Research Medicine and Sub-Dean (Research) at the Western Clinical School at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. He is also Director of the Australian Centre for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research, directly funded by the Australian Department of Health and Ageing.He trained in infectious diseases, clinical virology and virology research at the University of Melbourne and as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. His major research interests are in HIV and Herpes simplex virus biology and immunology, especially in relation to the development of vaccines and microbicides.He has also published numerous original and review articles on epidemiology, antiviral therapy and vaccines for Herpes simplex and varicella/zoster viruses, has participated in numerous international roundtables and often consults for global pharma on these topics.He has published more than 250 primary refereed scientific articles and 60 invited reviews or chapters in various journals or books, edited 3 books and has been cited more than 7,500 times.

Hospital Affiliations
Westmead Hospital
Affiliated Organisations
Australian Society for Microbiology Incorporated
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)
Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA)
Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
Australasian Society for Microbiology
Australasian Virology Society
Australasian Society for Immunology
Affiliated Universities
University of Sydney
Medical Conditions
Hepatitis
HIV-AIDS

Practice Locations

NSW

Westmead Hospital
Infectious Diseases/Microbiology Cnr Hawkesbury and Darcy Roads
Westmead NSW 2145 
Australia
02 9845 6012