Professor Roger Smith

In recognition of Exceptional Service to HMRI, we acknowledge Professor Roger Smith.

Roger is Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Newcastle, Co-Director of the University of Newcastle Priority Research Centre for Reproductive Sciences and Director of the Mothers and Babies Research Centre and Leader of the HMRI Pregnancy and Reproduction Program.

He is also one of the founding fathers of what we know today as HMRI. His passion for the establishment of a central and prominent group to support health and medical research led to the incorporation of the Hunter Medical Research Cooperative Limited on 6 March 1990 as a Community Advancement Society under the NSW Co-operation Act.

Roger has provided outstanding research leadership in the Hunter with his internationally renowned research, which focuses on understanding the mechanisms and processes that control human birth. HMRI recognised this leadership in 2000, when Roger was awarded the HMRI Award for Research Excellence.

For his passion, his leadership and his vision, which provided the platform on which HMRI was built, please join me in congratulating Professor Roger Smith.