HALL OF FAME

Professor Pamela McCombe

2012 Inductee

Student 1966 - 1969

Professor McCombe became interested in the nervous system while studying Zoology at school. She graduated in Medicine from the University of Queensland and also obtained a Science degree in Molecular Biology. Professor McCombe trained in Neurology at Prince Henry then obtained a PhD from the University of Sydney. After 3 years overseas she returned to the University of Queensland to full-time research in Neuroimmunology. Professor McCombe has resumed clinical practice and is now a visiting medial officer at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland and Deputy Head of the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Clinical School. Her research interest is in Neuroimmunology.

Professor McCombe has published more than 100 peer reviewed scientific papers and has served as Councillor of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists. She has worked for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians as chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee, on the board of the Research and Education Foundation and on the Overseas Trained Physicians Committee. Professor McCombe supports Neurological research as a member of the Australian Brain Foundation, has served on National Health and Medical Research Council Neurology Review panels and the committee of the Motor Neuron Disease Research Institute of Australia.