Chancellery
Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice President: Research and Innovation (commenced 2005)
Professor McMillen graduated with a BA (Hons) and Doctor of
Philosophy at Oxford University before completing her medical degree at
the University of Cambridge. She moved to Australia to take up a
Lectureship at Monash University, and was appointed as Chair of
Physiology at the University of Adelaide in 1992. Professor McMillen has
an international reputation as a biomedical researcher for her work
which focuses on the early origins of adult health. She is the Deputy
Director of the ARC/NHMRC National Network and is the only Australian
Commission Chair of the International Union of Physiological Societies.
She served for extended periods as Chair of either the ARC Biological
Sciences Panel or the NHMRC Fetal, Neonatal and Respiratory Physiology
Grant Review Panel, as a member of the NHMRC Enabling Grants Committee,
and on the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme Expert
Sub Committee on Promoting and Maintaining Good Health.
Caroline is currently a Director of the Playford Memorial Trust Inc, a
Board member of the Centre for Innovation and the CRC for Railway
Engineering and Technologies, and a member of the Science Advisory Panel
of the Australian Science Media Centre. Caroline is also Co-Chair of the
Steering Committee for Healthy Development Adelaide and a member of the
Steering Committee for BioInnovation SA’s Adelaide Integrated
Biosciences Laboratories.
Caroline is active in her role as the Champion of Women in Science,
Engineering and Technology – an appointment made under the Bragg
Initiative run by the Department of Further Education Employment Science
and Technology’s Science and Innovation Directorate. In October of 2006
Caroline was presented with a Woman of Achievement Award by the South
Australian Chapter of Zonta International, a global service organization
of executives in business and the professions who pool their expertise
to advance the status of women through action and advocacy.
