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.