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Dr Winkel, a University of Queensland medical graduate and leading Australian toxinologist, is the director of the Australian Venom Research Unit at the University of Melbourne, and immediate Past President of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine. He was appointed in July 1996, having recently completed his PhD at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. He was officially appointed Director of the Unit on the First of April 1999, on the retirement of Professor Sutherland, the Foundation Director. Dr Winkel was also awarded Fellowship of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine in April 1999. He is a CSL IH Group consultant on venoms and envenomations, and part of the team behind the 24 hour medical advisory service provided by Australian Venom Research Unit to doctors, poisons information centres and paramedical personnel.