Professor David Burke AO
Professor and Dean of Research and Development
The University of Sydney

David Burke is a clinical neurologist, who graduated in medicine from the University of Sydney in 1967 and undertook postgraduate research and clinical training in neurology and clinical neurophysiology at The Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals and the University of New South Wales. From 1991-2002, he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology, and Director of Clinical Research of the newly formed Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute. In 2002 he took up his present position at The University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and of the Australian Academy of Sciences and Technology, and is currently President of the Australian Association of Neurologists. In 1999 he was appointed Officer in the Order of Australia (AO).

His current research interests include motor control and its disorders, sensation and its disorders, and the biophysical abnormalities that underlie ectopic impulse generation and conduction block in human peripheral nerves. He has co-authored/edited 4 books and published over 240 scientific papers and over 65 book chapters on neurology and clinical neurophysiology.