Andrew Somogyi
Medicine
University of Adelaide
Australia
Biography
Dr Andrew Somogyi Professor in Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology. He is a practicing pharmacist, having graduated from the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education in 1972. He undertook a higher degree (Master of Science-1978) and then PhD (1982) at Sydney University, School of Pharmacy. Andrew then undertook postdoctoral research at the Medical Hospital of the University of Bonn in Germany for 2.5 years under the mentorship of Prof Roland Gugler and Prof Michel Eichelbaum. Following a short period in Melbourne at the then Baker Medical Research Institute in Melbourne, he was recruited as a Research Fellow to the Department of Clinical & Experimental Pharmacology at the University of Adelaide in late 1982. In 1992 he was appointed as Senior Lecturer, then promoted to Associate Professor (1994) and Professor in 2002. He was Deputy Head of the Department between 1992 and 2010. Between May 2005 and December 2010, he was Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Health Sciences. In 2010 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.
Research Interest
Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc
