http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/peter-smith/ As Dean of Medicine at The University of New South Wales, Professor Peter Smith has led a major expansion of research infrastructure and activity including the Lowy Cancer Research Centre and the Wallace Wurth Building. Professor Smith is a Director on the Board of St Vincent’s Health Australia, the Garvan Institute for Medical Research, the Arts and Health Foundation and a number of other medical research organisations. UNSW Medicine is one of Australia’s largest and most diverse medical faculties.  UNSW Medicine enjoys a close affiliation with a number of Australia’s finest hospitals, research institutes and health care organisations. Throughout its many schools, centres and affiliated institutes there are in excess of 350 full and part-time staff with a further 1000 conjoint academic staff. In addition to its world-class research activities, UNSW Medicine delivers many exciting and innovative teaching and research programs to a student body in excess of 2500. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/