Victorian Melanoma Service Research

Achievements

• Professor Catriona McLean, Head of Anatomical Pathology
  Jan 2019 - Officer (AO) in the General Division of The Order of Australia
  For distinguished service to medicine in the field of academic and clinical neuropathology, and as a role model and mentor. 

• Profesor Kelly - After founding the Victorian Melanoma Service in 1994, dermatologist Prof Kelly went on to lead the service until 2018.
  Jan 2018 - Member of Order of Australia
  Prof. Kelly received the award for significant service to medicine through the management and treatment of melanoma, as a clinician and administrator, and to education. 

• Dr Victoria Mar received an Award for Thesis Excellence from the Monash School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine for her doctoral thesis ‘Clinical and molecular analyses of aggressive melanoma.'
• Dr Charles Xie was awarded the 2015 Monash Comprehensive Cancer Consortium Prize for Best Poster in Cancer Research at Alfred Health Week for his poster entitled ‘Scalp melanoma - distinctive high risk clinical and histological features’. Dr Xie also a won Best Poster prize at the 2015 Australasian College of Dermatologists Annual Scientific Meeting.
• Dr Diana Norris and Dr Charles Xie received World Congress of Dermatology Trainee Scholarships to attend the 23rd World Congress of Dermatology in Vancouver, Canada in 2015.