On Monday 8 October, Professor Vernon Ward (Dean, Biomedical Sciences), Associate Professor Faumuina Fa'afetai Sopoaga (Associate Dean Pacific, Health Sciences), Dr Dianne Sika-Paotonu (Associate Dean Pacific, UOW), Dr Kiki Maoate (Associate Dean Pacific, UOC) and Va' a o Tautai staff joined members of the School of Biomedical Sciences Pacific Strategic Framework Group (PSFG) to acknowledge Associate Professor Daryl Schwenke's appointment to the role of Associate Dean Pacific for the School of Biomedical Sciences.
Daryl is looking forward to the opportunity to engage and support Pacific students in BMS. He is also keen to support and facilitate research and service engagements in the Pacific region related to areas of mutual interests. Daryl is of Samoan descent and is already making inroads into developing work and research connections with the National University in Samoa. Daryl also joins the Takiala Network, the group of senior Pacific leaders in Health Sciences.