Brendon Coventry

Brendon Coventry
Brendon Coventry in 2011
Born	Brendon Coventry 1959 (?)
Nationality	Australian
Fields	Surgical Oncology Immunology
Institutions	University of Adelaide Royal Adelaide Hospital Australian Melanoma Research Foundation
Alma mater	Flinders University (MBBS)(Ph.D.)
Known for	Melanoma vaccine immune cycle

Brendon Coventry MBBS PhD FRACS (born 1959) is a Surgical Oncologist, Immunologist, and medical researcher from Adelaide, South Australia. He is an Associate Professor at The University of Adelaide and practises at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He is also the Research Director for the Australian Melanoma Research Foundation.

Coventry's major research contributions have been made in the field of immunology. In 2014 he published a seven-volume work on complications in surgery with Springer Publishing.

His work and his views on the Australian health and tertiary education systems more generally have been widely reported in Australian news media in recent years, with journalist Rebecca Urban from The Australian calling him a "cancer pioneer".

Coventry graduated from Pulteney Grammar School in 1976. He later graduated from the School of Medicine at Flinders University and became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. His PhD on immunology and tumours was conferred in 1992.