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Board Member

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.