Meet our panel of medical specialists
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 Mathis Grossmann is a physician-scientist trained in both basic biology and in clinical endocrinology/diabetes. He is Professor of Medicine at the Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Austin Health, Australia, and a Consultant Endocrinologist at Austin Health. His research focuses on the regulation of cardiometabolic and musculoskeletal health by
Associate Professor Mary Sidebotham is a registered midwife and is currently employed by Griffith University as the Program Director of Primary Maternity Care degree programs. She is a visiting Associate Professor at the Gold Coast University Hospital Queensland. Mary is the Deputy Editor of the Nurse Education in Practice Journal
Mark Nolan is a Non-Invasive Cardiologist working at Western Health and the Peter Mac Cancer Centre in Melbourne, as well as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. He has completed an Echocardiography Fellowship in Adelaide, Cardiac MRI and CT Fellowship in Toronto, and also a Cardio-Oncology
Professor Mark Cook is Director of The Graeme Clark Institute, The Sir John Eccles Chair of Medicine and Director of Clinical Neurosciences at St. Vincent’s Hospital. Professor Cook specialises in the treatment of epilepsy. He is recognised internationally for his expertise in epilepsy management, particularly imaging and surgical planning. After
Associate Professor Malinda Itchins (BMedSci; MBBS(Hons1); FRACP; PhD) is a Thoracic Medical Oncologist at Royal North Shore Hospital and Chris O’Brien Lifehouse. She is a Clinician Researcher, Trialist, Board Director with the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) and Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Co-Chair on the Scientific Committee with
Professor Malcolm Hopwood is the Ramsay Health Care Professor of Psychiatry, at the University of Melbourne; based at the Ramsay Clinic Albert Road in Melbourne, Australia. He specialises in clinical aspects of mood and anxiety disorders, psychopharmacology, and psychiatric aspects of acquired brain injury. In the past, he led the
Les holds Medicine, Epidemiology and Philosophy degrees. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and a Scientific Fellow of the Faculty of Rehabilitation, Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He is Senior Staff Specialist and Head in the Department of Rheumatology at Concord Hospital and Associate Professor
Dr Lance Liu graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1992 before completing his ophthalmology training at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (Melbourne, Australia). He then undertook fellowship training in Glaucoma at Moorfields Eye Hospital (London, UK), the National University of Singapore (Singapore) and the Wills Eye Hospital
Professor Joseph Proietto is Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne in the Department of Medicine Austin Health and an endocrinologist specialising in diabetes and obesity. He established the first obesity clinic in Victoria at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and is now Head of the Weight Control Clinic at Austin
Joseph Ibrahim is a medical specialist in geriatrics and an academic Professor and Head of the Health Law and Ageing Research Unit at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University. Joseph has over 30 years of clinical experience as a doctor in the public hospital system providing care for older
Jonathan Segal is an academic Gastroenterologist who completed his PhD and medical studies in London, United Kingdom before moving to Melbourne, Australia in 2022. He is vastly published in all areas of Inflammatory bowel disease with a specialist interest in the ileoanal pouch and the microbiome. He has recently been
Associate Professor John Frew is a fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists and researcher in the field of inflammatory skin diseases with a focus on hidradenitis suppurativa. He holds a staff specialist position at Liverpool Hospital, and is a conjoint lecturer at the University of New South Wales supervising
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