Professor Stuart Carney
Dean
The University of Queensland, Medical School
Professor Stuart Carney is the Dean of The University of Queensland Medical School in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland. A psychiatrist by training, Stuart leads a team committed to improving health and empowering communities through medical education and research. This includes the Doctor of Medicine Program, which is offered both in Australia and with the Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, USA.
Immediately before joining the University of Queensland in 2017, Stuart was Dean of Medical Education and Vice Dean International in the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s College London. As Dean of the School of Medical Education, Stuart was responsible for the largest MBBS Programme in the UK and led the development of their new medical curriculum (Curriculum 2020).
Stuart has a distinguished record of educational leadership across the entire medical training continuum. He played a key role in setting up the integrated academic training pathway in England, which is the main talent pipeline for clinical academics. In addition, he was the Deputy National Director for the UK Foundation Programme. He is currently the chair of the MDANZ Workforce Committee and is the MDANZ representative on the AMC Prevocation Accreditation Committee.