Nicholas Fisk

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About Nicholas Fisk

Professor Nicholas Fisk AM FAHMS FRSN MBBS MBA PhD FRCOG FRANZCOG CMFM DDU is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research & Enterprise at UNSW Sydney, where his portfolio is to optimise research performance, infrastructure and training along with industry engagement, commercialisation and entrepreneurship. UNSW recently came 19th globally in the QS university rankings, and is again #1 university in ANZ for new start up/spin-out companies and new patent families in the annual SCOPR stocktake. His background is as a clinical scientist and his research in developmental biology and maternal-fetal medicine with over 400 publications and 30k citations. After medical training in Australia he spent two decades at Imperial College London before leadership roles at the University of Queensland. Current board memberships include NewSouth Innovations (Chair), Research Australia, Scientia Clinical Research, the UNSW China Advanced Technology Industrial Research Institute, and SPHERE (the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise). Previous board memberships include TEDi-London, the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), Metro North Hospital & Health Service (Qld), and Queensland Berghofer Medical Research Institute. Past roles include President of the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society, Chair of the Steering Committee of the Association of Academic Health Centers International, Chair of the Go8 Deans of Medicine Committee, and Chair of the Go8 DVCR’s Committee.