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Research Review New Zealand works with hundreds of local medical specialists to select and advise on the most important research from around the world. They advise on what really matters, what impact it has on local healthcare and what we need to do in our daily practice to accommodate new skills and knowledge. Select a category below to see more about each of our expert advisors.
Professor Stephen Kent trained as an infectious diseases physician and viral immunologist in Melbourne and the USA. He is a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Principal Research Fellow. Stephen heads a lab studying immunity to HIV, Influenza, COVID-19 and other variable and difficult to vaccinate against viruses. Several
Associate Professor Stephanie Lim is a medical oncologist at Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centre and GenesisCare, Campbelltown, with a subspeciality interest in gastrointestinal cancers. She is also a conjoint academic at Western Sydney University and an honorary research fellow at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research. She is actively involved
Stacey Jankelowitz is a staff specialist neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. She is a senior lecturer at Sydney Medical School where her research interests include neurophysiology, peripheral nerve and muscle disease and stroke.
Professor Simone Strasser Head of Department and Senior Staff Specialist in the AW Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre, and the Australian National Liver Transplant Unit at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and theUniversity of Sydney. She has a major clinical and research interest in a broad spectrum of liver diseases includingviral
Sam is a physician-scientist and CAR(-T) enthusiast (he drives a Corolla). He is the Medical Lead of Cell Therapy at Epworth HealthCare where he is also a clinical haematologist with an interest in malignant disease and immunotherapy. He is also a staff specialist at the Alfred Hospital in the CAR-T
Dr Sagun Parakh is a Consultant Medical Oncologist at Austin Hospital, specialising in lung cancer and primary brain tumours. After obtaining his fellowship, he completed his PhD at Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute (ONJCRI) focusing on the development of a novel first-in-class anti-ErbB2 antibody. He is the head of the
Roy G. Beran is trained as a consultant neurologist and accredited sleep physician, in addition to working within legal medicine, military medicine and aviation medicine. His qualifications include: MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRSN, FRACGP, Grad. Dip. Tertiary Ed., Grad. Dip. Further Ed., FAFPHM, FACLM, FRCP, FAAN, FACBS, B Leg. S, MHL
Prof. Richard J Harvey, MD PhD Richard currently works as a dedicated rhinologist (nose, sinus, allergy and endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery) at Macquarie University and St Vincent’s Hospitals in Sydney. He is the program head of Rhinology & Skull Base Surgery at the Applied Medical Research Center of
Dr Rhett Morton is a sub-specialist Gynaecological Oncologist based in Brisbane at the Mater public and Wesley private hospitals. He is a senior lecturer at University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research and has interests in regional and global health equity, surgical training and observational research methodology.
Pietro Di Ciaccio is a clinical haematologist at Sydney Adventist and St Vincent’s Private Hospitals, and laboratory haematologist at Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology. He has particular clinical and research interests in lymphomas, and haematological cancers in pregnant women.
Professor Philip Campbell is a general haematologist with broad training and experience in malignant and non-malignant haematology. His main clinical interests are malignant haematology and clinical research, particularly multicentre collaborative research in malignant haematology. His current appointments are Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University Medical School, and Clinical Haematologist, Andrew Love
Professor Peter Youssef, attended Sydney University graduating with first class honours in Medicine in 1986. He then did training in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology in Sydney. Peter became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1993. He completed his doctorate in 1997 at the Flinders University of
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