Levinia Crooks Emerging Leaders Award
For over 30 years Levinia took an active role in recognising especially emerging leaders within the BBV/STI and viral hepatitis field, and had personally mentored many talented individuals, researchers and practitioners. Two awards are given annually as a way of honouring her legacy and recognising her significant contribution to our sector.
David Cooper Lecture Award
Professor David Cooper AC was an internationally-renowned immunologist, researcher, and the inaugural director of the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney at its foundation in 1986; a role which he held until he passed away on 18 March 2018 after a short illness. David initiated ground-breaking, collaborative infectious disease research that has saved countless lives in Australia, and throughout the world. He was among the first responders when the HIV epidemic reached Australia in the early 1980s, and established Australia’s ongoing leadership in the global fight against HIV. A dedicated and compassionate doctor to many HIV patients and those with other immunological conditions, David Cooper is remembered as a great friend and mentor to all who were fortunate to know him. The David Cooper Lecture is awarded each year to a plenary presentation at the Australasian HIV&AIDS Conference, in honour of the late Professor David Cooper AC and his enormous contribution HIV&AIDS research and knowledge.
Gollow Lecture Award
The Gollow Lecture
During his triennium (1988-1991) as inaugural President of the Australasian College of Venereologists Dr Morris Gollow and his wife Suzette endowed funds for an honorarium to be given to the invited presenter of the Gollow Lecture, delivered at the annual scientific meeting of the College.
DR MORRIS M GOLLOW
AM, MRCS (Engl.), LRCP (Lond.), DepVen (Lond.), PPACSHP
Dr Gollow was born in London in 1925 and trained there, graduating in 1949.
He emigrated to WA in July 1956 and after two years in a remote area moved to Perth. In 1974 he left general practice and joined the Health Department of WA as a venereologist in the Royal Perth Hospital. One of the organisers of the First National Conference on STDs in Australia, held in Perth in August 1978, he was also President of the WA Venereal Diseases Society from 1980 until his retirement in 1986.
In 1981 he became a Foundation Member of the National Venereology Council of Australia and in 1987 a Founding Fellow of the Australasian College of Venereologists.
He was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia for services to Medicine, particularly in the field of venereology.
