David Dewhurst Medal

The David Dewhurst award is a bronze medal bestowed by Engineers Australia and is the most distinguished accolade within their biomedical engineering discipline. It is named in honour of David John Dewhurst (1919 - 1996), an outstanding Australian biophysicist and biomedical engineer who performed pioneering work in the area of the cochlear implant. The award was inaugurated in 1994 as the Eminent Biomedical Engineers Award and its first winner was David Dewhurst. Following his death in 1996 the award’s name was changed to the David Dewhurst Award as a permanent memorial.

Recipients

 * 1996 Keith Daniel, Nucleus Ltd.
 * 1997 Peter C. Farrell, ResMed
 * 1998 George Kossoff, CSIRO
 * 1999 Richard Kirsner, La Trobe University
 * 2000 Klaus Schindhelm, University of NSW
 * 2001 Alex Watson, Premier Biomedical Engineering Pty Ltd
 * 2002 Barry Seeger
 * 2003 Laurie Knuckey
 * 2004 Mark Pearcy
 * 2005 John Southwell
 * 2006 John Symonds
 * 2007 Geoffrey Wickham, Telectronics
 * 2009 Andrew Downing, Flinders University
 * 2010 Alexander McLean
 * 2011 Graham Grant
 * 2012 David Burton, Compumedics
 * 2013 Nigel Lovell, University of NSW
 * 2014 James F. Patrick, University of Melbourne
 * 2015 Derek Abbott, University of Adelaide
 * 2016 Karen Reynolds, Flinders University
 * 2017 Walter John Russell, University of Adelaide
 * 2018 Christopher Bertram, University of Sydney
 * 2019 Alan Finkel, Office of the Chief Scientist (Australia)
 * 2020
 * 2021 Leo Barnes, TUV SUD GmbH