Paul McMenamin

Professor Paul Gerard McMenamin (born October 6, 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland ) is an Australian academic and researcher noted for his research into the structure and immunology of the eye.

Education

McMenamin completed his secondary schooling at St Leonards' Comprehensive Secondary School, Easterhouse, Glasgow. In 1978 Professor McMenamin completed a Honours degree in zoology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland). From 1978 to 1981, he was a research student at Glasgow’s Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology. In 1986, he completed his M.Sc. in anatomical sciences at Glasgow.

Career

From 1983 to 1987, McMenamin was a research assistant at the University of Glasgow’s Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology and also a lecturer in the University’s Department of Anatomy. From 1987 to 1991 he was a lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia, in Perth. In 1992, he became a senior lecturer, and in 1998 was made Associate Professor of the Department of Anatomy and Human Biology. Since 2003 he has been a Professor in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology. From 2002 to 2004 he was an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Auckland. From 2004 until 2007 he was the Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning at UWA’s Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. In 2007, he was an Honorary Professor at the Lions Eye Institute’s Centre for Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, and in 2008 he is spending his sabbatical year at the Institute.

Publications

McMenamin has published more than 100 papers, in journals including the J.Exp Med., Journal of Immunology, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, British Journal of Ophthalmology, Medical Journal of Australia and J.Comp Neurol. He is the co-author (with J.V. Forrester, A. Dick and W.R. Lee) of The Eye: Basic Sciences in Practice, published by W.B. Saunders (Ed 3 in December 2007). His anatomical charts include The Anatomy of the Greyhound (July 1995); The Anatomy of the Horse (March 1996) and The Surgical Anatomy of the Pelvis (September 2006) have sold many thousands of copies.

Prizes and awards

McMenamin won the Premier’s Science Award for Excellence in Teaching (Tertiary) in 2007. He has also won many other University and faculty Excellence in Teaching Awards (2002, 2005, 2007). He has pioneered body painting as a teaching tool in his medical anatomy classes. [http://www.sciencewa.net.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1914&Itemid=671 ScienceNetwork WA - Art reveals the science of anatomy ] ]

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* [http://school.anhb.uwa.edu.au/personalpages/mcmenamin/ Paul McMenamin CV, publication, research projects]