Michael Denborough

Michael Denborough

Michael Antony Denborough AM (born 11 July 1929) is an Australian academic and medical researcher who founded the Nuclear Disarmament Party.

Denborough was born in Salisbury in Rhodesia to Paul Peter Denborough and Alma Mary Hepburn. He was educated at Prince Edward School in Salisbury and the University of Cape Town before attending Oxford University, where he was an assistant at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Radcliffe Infirmary. He married Erica Elizabeth Griffin on 12 December 1959. He was Resident Medical Officer at National Heart Hospital in London in 1958 before travelling to Australia, where he was First Assistant Deputy Medic at the University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1960 to 1968. He read medicine at the University of Melbourne from 1972 to 1974 and was a Professorial Fellow from 1974 to 1991, working as Acting Head of the Department of Clinical Science from 1975 to 1981 and Acting Director of the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies in 1982. From 1992 to 1994 he was Professor of the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, retiring in 1995. He has since been an Emeritus Professor.[1]

Denborough founded the Nuclear Disarmament Party in 1984 and contested elections on its behalf numerous times. He published Australia and Nuclear War in 1984 and later edited The Role of Calcium in Drug Action. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1999.[1] Denborough's research has centred on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, which he has tentatively linked with malignant hypothermia.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Who's Who in Australia (2011). Denborough, Michael Antony (password required)
  2. ^ "True Stories: Sudden Death". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 June 2003. http://www.abc.net.au/health/misc/suddendeath.htm. Retrieved 8 August 2011. 
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