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Dr Helen Ackland
Senior Clinical Trauma Research Fellow, National Trauma Research Institute, The Alfred; Senior Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
- Spinal trauma
- Ladder falls
- Spine
Helen Ackland is the Senior Clinical Trauma Research Fellow at The Alfred, and works collaboratively with the departments of Intensive Care, Radiology, Emergency, Trauma, Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery.
Her primary areas of interest include cervical spine injury investigation, spinal imaging and ladder fall-related injuries and prevention.
Dr Nikki Adler
- Dermatology
Dr Nikki Adler (she/her) is a Consultant Dermatologist and Fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists.
She completed her specialist dermatology training at The Royal Children’s Hospital, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The Alfred Hospital, Monash Medical Centre and St Vincent’s Hospital.
Dr Adler has a special interest in the early detection and management of melanoma. Dr Nikki Adler has an appointment as a Visiting Specialist at the Victorian Melanoma Service at The Alfred Hospital. She is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, and is a supervisor of PhD and Masters students.
She completed her PhD through Monash University in 2018 on the clinical and molecular characteristics and metastatic pathways of patients with cutaneous melanoma. Dr Adler is a lead author of the Australian National Cancer Council Melanoma Guidelines. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (JAAD) and the Australasian Journal of Dermatology (AJD).
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A/Prof Frank Bruscino-Raiola
Director of Plastics, Hand and Faciomaxillary Surgery
- Melanoma
- Plastic surgery
A/Prof Frank Bruscino-Raiola graduated from Monash University in 1991 and completed his fellowship in Plastics and Reconstructive surgery in 2002.
He has been a member of the Victorian Melanoma Service since 2003.
A/Prof Frank Bruscino-Raiola brings a great volume of experience in melanoma surgery. Apart from his interest in melanoma, he is the head of plastic research at The Alfred.
He is the prime surgeon of the Osseointegration & TMR programme and is also heavily involved in the head and neck, and trauma-related reconstructive surgery.
Professional memberships:
- Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons
Dr Alexander Chamberlain
Dr Alex Chamberlain obtained Fellowship of the Australasian College of Dermatologists in 2004 and has been a visiting dermatologist at the Victorian Melanoma Service since 2005.
He holds an appointment as Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash University Central Clinical School and has enjoyed working at the Alfred Hospital since 1994. He was Clinical Research Fellow in Oxford between 2001 and 2003 and returned in 2007 to complete a fellowship in dermoscopy and multi-disciplinary skin cancer management (F.C. Florance Bequest)
Dr Chamberlain has authored over 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals along with multiple book chapters. He has contributed to or coordinated educational courses on skin cancer for the Australasian College of Dermatologists, Monash University, University of Queensland, University of Wales, Skin and Cancer Foundation, Cancer Council of Victoria, Skin Cancer Society of Australia and HealthCert. He was a contributor to the latest revision of the Cancer Council Australia Clinical Practice Guidelines for the management of cutaneous melanoma. His main areas of expertise are dermoscopy, dermato-oncology including non-surgical management of skin cancer, along with disorders of nails.
In 2022 he co-edited the 2nd edition of “Diagnostic Dermoscopy” a textbook published by Wiley-Blackwell along with colleagues Dr Jonathan Bowling and Prof John Paoli.
Professional Memberships
- Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials Limited
- Melanoma World Society
- International Dermoscopy Society
- International Fellow American Academy of Dermatology
- British Association of Dermatologists
- Pacific Dermatology Association
Prof Allen Cheng
Director of Infection Prevention and Healthcare Epidemiology, Professor in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology
- Influenza and vaccines
- Antibiotic resistance
- Hospital-acquired infections
- Emerging infectious diseases
Prof Allen Cheng is an infectious diseases physician at Alfred Health.
Prof Cheng is an infectious diseases physician. His key interests are influenza, antibiotic resistance and hospital-acquired infections. He is involved in influenza surveillance in Australian hospitals as well as clinical trials in infectious diseases.
Prof Cheng also has an appointment in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University.
A/Prof Heather Cleland
Visiting Plastic Surgeon and Head, Adult Burns Service, The Alfred, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery, Central and Eastern Clinical School, Monash University
- Burns surgery
- Plastic surgery
- Women in surgery
- Surgical education and training
- Tissue donation
- Clinical quality registries
- End of life issues
Heather Cleland is a Plastic Surgeon and currently Head of the Victorian Adult Burns Unit at The Alfred.
She is a member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, and the Australian and New Zealand Burn Association, of which she is a Past President and current board member. She chairs the Board Burns Quality Improvement Program Committee, and is Chair of the Steering Committee of the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand.
She is a member various committees and organizations, including the Court of Examiners of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Plastic Surgery), the Australasian Foundation for Plastic Surgery’s Education Committee, and the Donor Tissue Bank Committee of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine.
She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries (Burns), a reviewer for several international surgical journals, a supervisor for higher degree students, and has published over 100 articles in peer reviewed journals.
Prof Anthony Dart
Visiting Medical Officer
- Cardiology
- Hyperlipidaemia and control of cardiac risk factors
- Vascular function
- Myocardial ischaemia and infarction
Prof Anthony Dart is a clinician specialising in Lipid disorders.
He completed his undergraduate and early postgraduate training at the University of Oxford. He completed a BA (physiology) and DPhil (neurophysiology) prior to completing his medical studies (BM BCh). Following internships in Oxford and Bath, he completed basic physician training in South Wales including posts at Morriston Hospital, Swansea and Llandough, Royal Infirmary and Heath Hospital, Cardiff. He was cardiology registrar at the Heath Hospital (University of Wales). Subsequent appointments were as senior registrar in Aberdeen (Forresterhill Hospital and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary) and Lecturer in the Cardiovascular Research Unit, University of Edinburgh.
He received specialist accreditation in General Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Cardiovascular Medicine. He also spent 2 years in the Department of Cardiology, Heidelberg, Germany as a Royal Society European Exchange Fellow. Professor Dart relocated to Melbourne in 1988 to take up a position at the Baker Medical Research Institute. He is a FRACP and FRCP.
Professor Dart was in receipt of both personal (Senior Principal Research Fellow) and direct research costs from the NHMRC from 1988 to 2017. Professor Dart was previously Acting Director (2002-2004) and Director (2004-2017) of the department of Cardiovascular Medicine at The Alfred.
Professor Dart's clinical interests, in addition to general cardiology, include hyperlipidaemia and control of cardiac risk factors. Research interests also include hyperlipidaemia and vascular function, particularly in relation to myocardial ischaemia and hypertension. He also has a major laboratory interest (Baker Institute) in myocardial ischaemia and infarction. Professor Dart has more than 300 publications related to cardiac disease.
Dr Paul Denborough
Director Infant, Child, Youth & headspace
- Child and youth mental health
- General psychiatry
Dr Denborough is a child and youth psychiatrist with more than 20 years experience.
Mr Atsuo Doi
- Cardiothoracic Surgery & Transplantation
Mr Atsuo Doi is a Cardiothoracic & Transplantation Surgeon.
A/Prof Hany Elsaleh
A/Prof Hany Elsaleh is Director, Radiation Oncology at Alfred Health and an Associate Professor at Monash and the Australian National University.
Hany gained his PhD in molecular biology at the Department of Surgery at the University of Western Australia during Radiation Oncology fellowship training for his investigations in DNA Repair and Chromosomal Instability.
He was then recruited in the United States to a faculty position at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, working with Rodney Withers as a Radiation Oncologist specialising in gastrointestinal malignancies. Whilst in the U.S. he established and chaired the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) Gastrointestinal Translational Research Program Committee. His subsequent pharmacogenomics research resulted in drug development and an international Phase III randomized trial.
In the ACT his main focus was in medical management as Director of Radiation Oncology at the Canberra Hospital. As a supporter of research he established a cancer research laboratory program investigating clonogenic radiation sensitisation, in-vivo tissue damage and repair. In collaboration with a biotech company he conducted novel translational clinical studies in radiation reactions and targeted tissue recovery. With the advent of stereotactic radiosurgery and dose escalation treatments in radiation oncology he has moved his research focus to irradiation immunity interactions partnering with the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University as well as facilitating collaborations with the radiation oncology departments radiation immunity laboratory at The Burnett Institute in Melbourne.
Not scared to think outside the box when it comes to service provision Hany looks at developing and growing the cancer partnerships with Victorian public providers and in the south eastern regional health services corridor.
Prof Christopher Fairley
Director of the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Professor of Public Health at Monash University
- Public health control of sexually transmitted diseases and the effectiveness of clinical services
Prof Christopher Fairley is Director of the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and Professor of Public Health at Monash University.
He holds three specialist medical fellowships from the College of Physicians (Infectious Diseases), Faculty of Public Health and Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine. He is an editor of the Journal ‘Sexual Health’. His principle research interests are the public health control of sexually transmitted diseases and the effectiveness of clinical services. He has supervised 27 doctoral students to completion. He has 543 review journal publications and sits on the boards of IUSTI and ISSTDR.
Find out more about Chris at Monash University and Google Scholar.
Dr James Finkemeyer
Prof Gerard Goh
Head of Interventional Radiology. Consultant Diagnostic & Interventional Radiologist. Adjunct Clinical Professor, Central Clinical School, Monash University.
- Radiology
Professor Goh completed his medical training and Radiology training in Adelaide. He has worked at the Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland where he was a Clinical Lecturer in Interventional Radiology for the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland and at St George’s Hospital, London, UK where he was an Honorary Senior Lecturer for St George’s University of London.
He is an executive board member and council member for the Asia Pacific Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (APSCVIR), a council member for the European Board of Interventional Radiology (EBIR) for the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) and is an honorary researcher for the National Trauma Research Institute. Previously he has been the Dean of the Faculty of Clinical Radiology for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists and President of the Interventional Radiology Society of Australasia.
Prof Goh is a regularly invited international speaker having given over 180 invited presentations, been involved with over 50 workshops and authored 3 book chapters. In addition to a strong interest in research he is involved with a number of clinical trials and first-in-human trials.
He is an Associate Editor for the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology journal and the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology as is also peer reviewer for several international journals.
His areas of interest include complex vascular interventions, embolisation and trauma.
Mr Julian Gooi
- Cardiothoracic Surgery & Transplantation
Mr Julian Gooi is a Cardiothoracic & Transplantation Surgeon.
Prof Mark Hew
Head of Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, Alfred Hospital, and Adjunct Clinical Professor, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
- Asthma
- Allergic disease
Mark qualified in Medicine at Melbourne in 1995. He undertook a severe asthma fellowship at the Royal Brompton Hospital, a PhD in Molecular Biology at Imperial College London, and a Masters in Evidence-Based Health Care at Oxford. He has dual specialist registration, in both Respiratory & Sleep Medicine and Clinical Immunology & Allergy. He has published more than a hundred research papers and book chapters. His areas of expertise include severe asthma therapeutics, thunderstorm asthma, and allergic disease.
Prof Jennifer Hoy
Director of HIV Medicine
- HIV
- Antiretroviral medicine
Prof Jennifer Hoy is the Director of HIV Medicine at The Alfred.
Prof Hoy has over 30 years’ experience in HIV clinical research and patient care, and established the Clinical Research Unit at The Alfred. Prior to this, she established and directed the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit from 1988-2008, building it into an internationally recognized research program.
She has been Principal Investigator for over 175 clinical studies at The Alfred and has collaborated widely on investigator-initiated pathogenesis studies.
Prof Hoy has been co-principal investigator on five large studies investigating ARV therapy and bone loss, including the SMART and START studies on which she was the Principal Investigator for Australia.
Prof Hoy has been a productive member of the IAS-USA Antiretroviral Guidelines Panel since 2012. Her current research interests include the comorbidities associated with ageing and HIV, especially bone and cardiovascular disease, and finding better ways to prevent and manage them.
Most significant trial
The START international study recruited 4500 people globally and demonstrated that starting treatment for HIV infection soon after diagnosis provided survival benefits in addition to reduction in AIDS and non-AIDS diseases. The results of this trial provided the gold standard evidence to change all antiretroviral guidelines throughout the world in 2015.
A/Prof Martin Hunn
- Traumatic brain injury
- Subarachnoid haemorrhage
- Brain tumours
- Cerebral aneurysm
- Arteriovenous malformations
- Acoustic neuroma
A/Prof Martin Hunn is a Senior Neurosurgeon at Alfred Health.
A/Prof Martin Hunn's clinical areas of special interest include:
- Acoustic neuroma and other cerebellopontine angle tumours
- Awake resection of low grade glioma
- Surgery for cerebral aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations
- Cervical spine surgery
- Surgical management of trigeminal neuralgia
He has an appointment with the Central Clinical School, Monash University. His primary research interest has been immunotherapy for primary brain tumours, but this is evolving to include the management of critically-ill patients following traumatic brain injury with intracranial haemorrhage.
A/Prof Peter Hunter
Head of Unit Geriatric Medicine, Clinical Program Director of Rehabilitation, Aged and Community Care
- Care of older people
- End of life care
- Safety and quality
- Clinical leadership
Peter Hunter is a geriatrician with 30 years of experience.
He was the inaugural president of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine. He is the Clinical Lead for the Care of Older People Clinical Network. His interests include safety and quality in older people, innovative service development and improving end of life care.
Dr Joshua Ihle
Clinical lead for the organ donation and burns units.
- Organ donation
Josh Ihle is an intensive care specialist and The Alfred’s clinical lead for the organ donation, and burns units.
Josh also manages the Alfred Critical Care Ultrasound course, as well as teaches several ICU courses at the hospital.
He has a keen interest in cardiothoracic intensive care, particularly Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, echocardiography and organ donation.
Ms Lynda Katona
- Psychology
Prof David Kaye
Director of Cardiology
- Heart failure
- Heart transplantation
- Mechanical circulatory support
- Cardiovascular research
Professor Kaye is the Director of Cardiology and a senior cardiologist in the Heart Failure & Transplant service at The Alfred.
Professor Kaye is an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and Head of the Cardiology Division at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute.
He is recognised internationally for his work on the pathophysiology of heart failure. His studies have identified a range of the fundamental mechanisms that contribute to the progressive nature of heart failure. He has published over 340 research articles, his H index is 77, with over 23,000 citations.
Research
Professor Kaye holds numerous research grants including an NHMRC Program Grant (as leader), NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence Grant and an NHMRC Development Grant.
Prof Kaye’s research has also created a substantial portfolio of intellectual property related to the invention of novel medical devices. These have been the basis for the formation of three start-up companies, including Osprey Medical which was successfully listed on the ASX. All companies have advanced active clinical trial programs.
Prof Kaye is the recipient of the Eric Susman and RT Hall Prizes for research excellence from the College of Physicians and Cardiac Society. He was awarded the 2012 Eureka Prize for Medical Research Translation.
Most significant clinical trial
A novel formulation of a drug used to treat advanced heart failure, now tested in over 40 patients with severe symptoms.
Publications
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Prof Johannes S Kern Professor and Director of Dermatology, Monash University School of Translational Medicine and Alfred Health
Johannes is a conjoint Professor and Director of Dermatology, Monash University School of Translational Medicine and Alfred Health.
He is a leading expert in skin disease with over 15 years of clinical and translational research experience.
Together, with his team, he has run over 60 clinical trials. His expertise in implementation of clinical evidence into practice is demonstrated by his membership in Australian and international consensus groups and Guideline Committees.
Prof Peter Kistler
Head of Cardiac electrophysiology (heart rhythm disorders)
- Arrhythmias (palpitations, collapse)
- Pacemakers and defibrillators
- Sudden cardiac death
- Atrial fibrillation
Professor Peter Kistler is a clinician cardiologist and electrophysiologist and an international leader in the treatment of heart rhythm disorders.
He is the Head of electrophysiology at the Alfred Hospital and Head of Clinical Electrophysiology research at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne. He is a Professor in the department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne and Monash Universities.
Peter was the senior author of the first randomized study defining the role of alcohol abstinence in atrial fibrillation published in the New England Journal on January 2nd 2020. Peter’s research has drawn international attention being featured in print and electronic news media across the world in defining the role of alcohol and coffee in heart rhythm disorders as well as ablation in improving heart function. Peter was senior author of the CAMERA MRI study published in JACC in 2017 which demonstrated the superiority of catheter ablation vs medical rate control in patients with AF and dilated cardiomyopathy which has now been incorporated into international guidelines. Peter was awarded the prestigious RT Hall Prize from the cardiac society of Australasia in 2020 for excellence in cardiac research.
He has made a substantial contribution to the field of atrial arrhythmias with 210 publications, 6467 citations and has supervised 15 PhD students. He is an invited speaker at the American Heart Association, Heart Rhythm Society in the USA and Asia-Pacific Heart Rhythm Society. He is a member of the fellowship committee and Heart Rhythm TV for the Heart Rhythm Society USA. He is the current Chair of the Cardiac Society Australia New Zealand AF ablation guidelines and member of the National Heart Foundation Heart Failure Guidelines 2018.
Prof Jayashri Kulkarni
Director MAPrc and Head of Psychiatry Monash University CCS
- Mental health
- Reproductive hormone impact on mental health
Prof Kulkarni is the Director of MAPrc and Head of Department of Psychiatry, Monash University (CCS).
MAPrc is dedicated to discovering new treatments, new understanding and new services for people with a range of mental illnesses.
Prof Kulkarni became a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 1989 and was awarded a PhD from Monash University in 1997 for her thesis “Women and Psychosis”. She is internationally acknowledged as a leader in the field of reproductive hormones and their impact on mental health. Prof Kulkarni was elected the President of the International Association of Women’s Mental Health in 2017.
Most significant trial
Pioneering the use of estradiol for treatment-resistant schizophrenia: a large-scale randomised-controlled trial in women of child-bearing age.
Prof Natasha Lannin
Clinical Chair in Occupational Therapy
- Rehabilitation
- Stroke
- Acquired brain injury
- Traumatic brain injury
Natasha is an occupational therapist who holds appointments with several institutions.
Natasha holds a joint appointment with La Trobe University (School of Allied Health) and honorary appointments at the John Walsh Institute for Rehabilitation Research at The University of Sydney, the George Institute for Global Health and the Florey Neurosciences at The University of Melbourne. Working within the Alfred Health hospital network, she conducts clinical trials investigating the effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions, as well as translation research into improving the long-term outcomes for those living with brain injury from stroke or traumatic causes. She has published widely in leading journals such as Stroke, Journal of Epidemiology, and Clinical Rehabilitation, and has received competitive research grants from federal government (including NHMRC), state government (includingthe Transport Accident Commission) and philanthropic organisations (including the National Stroke Foundation).
Prof Victoria Mar
Director of the Victorian Melanoma Service
- Melanoma
- Skin cancer
- Dermatology
Prof Victoria Mar is the Director of the Victorian Melanoma Service at The Alfred and Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.
She completed her PhD at Monash University/VMS and Peter MacCallum entitled ‘Clinical and molecular characteristics of aggressive melanoma’ (2014), and supervises doctoral students in clinical and translational research projects.
She is a board member of the Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials Group. She has co-authored a number of chapters for the Cancer Council Australia Melanoma Guidelines and is Clinical Lead for the Melanoma Clinical Outcomes Registry and Victorian Lead for the Australian Centre of Excellence for Melanoma Imaging and Diagnosis.
Professional memberships:
- Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials Group
- Clinical Lead for the Melanoma Clinical Outcomes Registry and Victorian
- Australian Centre of Excellence for Melanoma Imaging and Diagnosis
Prof Silvana Marasco
Director Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Minimally invasive valve surgery
- Transplantation
- Mechanical assistance for the heart
- Chest trauma
- Rib fixation
- Cardiothoracic Surgery & Transplantation
Prof Silvana Marasco is the Director, Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Alfred and Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Monash University.
Prof Marasco performs the full spectrum of adult cardiac and thoracic operations, including heart and lung transplants and implantation of mechanical assist devices.
Her surgical areas of interest include:
- Minimally invasive valve surgery
- Innovative techniques
- Management of chest trauma
She has a Master of Surgery, Master of Bioethics, a PhD and has published over 160 peer reviewed journal articles and 14 book chapters. Her research interests have focussed on chest trauma, transplantation outcomes and innovations in surgical techniques for which she has received over $6.5 million in total funding.
Prof David McGiffin
Head of Research, Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiothoracic & Transplantation Surgeon
- Cardiothoracic Surgery & Transplantation
Prof David McGiffin is Head of Research, Cardiothoracic Surgery and a Cardiothoracic & Transplantation Surgeon.
A/Prof Steven Mcgloughlin
- Intensive Care
- Infectious Diseases
Associate Prof Steve McGloughlin completed his training in intensive care in a combination of metropolitan and rural centres before coming to the Alfred in 2011.
He is passionate about the delivery of quality, compassionate care to critically ill patients and providing support for staff who work in this difficult area. His clinical areas of interest include infections in the critically ill, ECMO and communication skills. He previously worked for the Royal Flying Doctor Service in remote Australia.
Dr Robert Melvin
Deputy Director of Emergency Medicine; Clinical Lead for Paediatric Emergency Medicine; Emergency Physician
- Emergency Medicine
- Emergency Paediatrics
Rob Melvin is an emergency physician at Alfred Health, working in the Emergency and Trauma Centre at The Alfred, and the Emergency Department at Sandringham Hospital.
His clinical areas of special interest include team leadership in resuscitation, paediatrics in the emergency department and infectious diseases in the emergency department setting.
Prof Dev Mitra
Emergency Physician at Alfred Health
- Trauma resuscitation
- Traumatic brain injury
- Blood transfusion and clotting disorders
- Concussion
Prof Biswadev Mitra works as an Emergency Physician at Alfred Health.
His clinical areas of special interest include trauma resuscitation, traumatic brain injury, blood and blood product usage during trauma resuscitation. Prof Mitra has an appointment with the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.
His primary research interest has been in blood transfusion and clotting disorders during trauma resuscitation and traumatic brain injury.
Dr Maggie Moore
Dr Maggie Moore is a medical oncologist specialising in the treatment of melanoma, lung and breast cancers.
Maggie is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and became a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians in 2009.
She has been a consultant medical oncologist at the Alfred Hospital since 2010 and an oncologist with the Victorian Melanoma Service since 2012. During this time she has maintained a strong focus on clinical research, serving as site principal investigator on clinical trials ranging from phase one to phase three studies across her tumour streams of interest.
Maggie also holds the position of adjunct lecturer at Monash University and is actively involved in the clinical teaching of undergraduate medical students and the supervision and mentoring of oncology trainees.
Prof Paul Myles
Director, Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, The Alfred and Monash University
- Awareness during surgery
- Safety in anaesthesia
- Avoiding pain after surgery
- Nitrous oxide (laughing gas)
Prof Paul Myles is the Director, Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, The Alfred and Monash University.
Prof Myles is an anaesthetist with a special interest in cardiac and trauma anaesthesia, patient safety, awareness (“waking up” during surgery), and research methods to measure patient quality of recovery.
He was the founding Chair of the ANZCA Clinical Trials Group, is an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellow, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science.
Mr Justin Negri
- Cardiothoracic Surgery & Transplantation
Mr Justin Negri is a Cardiothoracic & Transplantation Surgeon.
Prof Terence O'Brien
Program Director Alfred Brain, Deputy Director of Research
- Neurology
- Epilepsy
- Brain diseases
Prof O'Brien is the Program Director Alfred Brain, Deputy Director of Research and Head of Neuroscience Clinical Trials Unit at The Alfred.
Prof O'Brien is a specialist in neurology and clinical pharmacology, with particular expertise in epilepsy and related brain diseases, including traumatic brain injury, brain tumours and neurodegenerative diseases, neuropharmacology and in-vivo imaging in animal models and humans.
He was formerly The University of Melbourne’s James Stewart Chair of Medicine and Head of the Department of Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (2008-17).
He leads a large translational research team focused on improving treatments for people with epilepsy and related brain diseases. Prof O’Brien’s research has two primary goals:
- To better understand the determinants of treatment response, identify biomarkers for treatment outcomes, and develop new treatment approaches.
- To investigate the fundamental neurobiological basis, and inter-relationship, of the neuropsychiatric co-morbidities present in many patients with epilepsy and neurodegenerative conditions.
He has been a principal investigator in more than 100 commercially sponsored and investigator initiated trials, and is Chair of the Australian Epilepsy Clinical Trial Network (AECTN). He published more than 395 peer-reviewed original papers in leading scientific and medical journals which have been cited around 14,000 times.
Most significant trial
The STAR 1 trial (2016-18), for which Prof O’Brien was the principal investigator, was the first double-blinded randomised control trial of a cannaboid treatment for adults with drug resistant focal epilepsy. It was also the first to trial a novel transcutaneous delivery system that avoided many of pharmacokinetic and side-effects issues with oral cannaboid treatments. The study involved 188 participants and 14 trial sites across Australia and New Zealand, coordinated by the AECTN which Prof O’Brien chairs. The results of the study showed that the treatment was well tolerated, with excellent patient compliance and acceptance, establishing the viability of the transdermal treatment approach. Continued open-labelled treatment in STAR 2 showed sustained clinically meaningful reductions after 6 and 12 months of treatment.
Prof Robyn O'Hehir
Professor/Director Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Monash University and Alfred Health
- Adult allergic diseases
- Anaphylaxis
- Food allergy
- Drug allergy
- Insect venom allergy
Professor Robyn O’Hehir is known internationally for her innovative research in allergy and respiratory medicine.
For the past ten years she has headed Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine at Alfred Health and Monash University, the first University in Australia to establish a Chair of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Professor O’Hehir has been a key figure in advocacy, policy development and community service for those affected by respiratory allergy, asthma and cystic fibrosis in Australia. She served as State President of the Australasian Society for Clinical Immunology and Allergy, as well as a non-executive Director on the Board of Cabrini Health and a member of the Menzies Foundation Council. She is honoured to be an Officer of the Order of Australia, a Fellow of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science and a Life Governor of Asthma Victoria.
Mr Andrew Packiyanathan
Dr Mithu Palit
Clinical Lead Alfred ABI Rehabilitation Centre Deputy Director of Rehabilitation
- Neurological rehabilitation
- Recovery from stroke
- Recovery from ABI and neurotrauma
- Spasticity management
- Behavioural aspects of ABI management
- Victorian ABI services
Dr Palit is a Rehabilitation Physician with a strong interest in Neurological Rehabilitation.
Previously Headed the Neurological Rehabilitation Stream at Caulfield Hospital. Research interest in Spasticity Management. Part of the team responsible for developing the Model of Care for the Alfred ABI Rehabilitation Centre and has gone on to become the Clinical Lead for this new rehabilitation Service
Prof Anton Peleg
Director, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Alfred, Professor, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Monash University
- Multidrug-resistant bacteria
- Antibiotic resistance
- Hospital-acquired infections
- Infections in immunocompromised hosts
Anton is a Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, and is the Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at The Alfred Hospital and Central Clinical School, Monash University.
He completed his infectious diseases clinical training in Australia in 2005 and then went to the USA for four years and worked at the Harvard-affiliated hospitals: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed a Masters of Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health, and also completed a PhD in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology. His research interests are in hospital-acquired infections, antibiotic resistance, mechanisms of pathogenesis and infections in immunocompromised hosts.
He is also an active clinician working in the area of hospital-acquired infections and transplant infectious diseases. He is a committee member of the Clinical Research Network of the Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases and the Taskforce against Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative Bacteria for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare. He has received numerous national and international awards for his advanced research and contribution to Infectious Diseases and Microbiology.