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S. Bruce Dowton is a Vice-Chancellor and a professor of law at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He was born in 1956 in Ivanhoe, Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne, a Master of Laws from the University of London, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
Dowton has held a number of senior positions in the Australian legal profession, including as a partner at Mallesons Stephen Jaques, a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne, and a professor of law at the University of Sydney. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University in 2011.
Dowton has been a member of the Australian Law Reform Commission, the Australian Research Council, and the Australian Human Rights Commission. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Dowton is married to Dr. Elizabeth Dowton, and they have two children.
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He has published over 80 articles on a wide range of topics in peer-reviewed academic publications, and has held Visiting Professorial and External Examiner appointments at several universities including the University of Edinburgh, Columbia University in New York City, the University of Tromsø in Norway, Hong Kong University, as well as institutions in the People’s Republic of China.
In June 2019, questions were raised about payments Professor Dowton received for hosting university functions at his home. The hosting payments received by Professor Dowton totaled $222,000 over four years (2014 to 2018). The house was bought with a loan drawn from the university and interest payments in the same period totaled $129,000.
He was a member of the Board of the Maggie Beer Foundation from 2014 until 2016.
Macquarie University announced the appointment of Dowton as their fifth Vice-Chancellor in July 2012, and he assumed the role in September that year, leaving his post as clinical professor of paediatrics at the Harvard Medical School.
In 2001, the NSW Minister of Health, the Hon. Craig Knowles, invited Dowton to establish a new ministerial council to oversee reorganisation of graduate medical education across the state health system: the Medical Education and Training Council. Dowton also served as chair of the Committee of Deans of Australia in Medical Schools (CDAMS) from 2002 to 2004. During this time, the organisation saw further consolidation and strengthening of the funding base for the Rural Clinical Schools Initiative. As part of a multi-pronged initiative as chair of CDAMS, with other decanal colleagues, he spearheaded the establishment and implementation of the Indigenous Health Project through a partnership with the Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing implementation of the Indigenous Health Project. With this platform, a nationwide indigenous Health Curriculum Framework was developed and ratified.
Professor Dowton was awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (with Honours) in 1980 from the University of Sydney. He completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Boston, where he held clinical and research fellowships in paediatrics and cell biology. He also holds a doctorate of medicine for his work in cell biology from the University of Sydney. His work as a laboratory scientist focused on regulation of the expression of genes for an important class of blood proteins.
Dowton was born in the far Far West region of New South Wales in the town of Ivanhoe and raised in Dubbo. Professor Dowton moved to Sydney in 1975 to commence tertiary studies. He was the first in his family to go to university.
S. Bruce Dowton (born 1956) is the fifth Vice-Chancellor and the President of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is an Australian-born paediatrician, researcher and academic, and has served as a senior medical executive at a range of universities, healthcare institutions and consulting organisations.
