Professor Scott W. Menzies

Director
Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre
Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Professor Medicine (Discipline of Dermatology)
The University of Sydney

Scott Menzies is the Director of the Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre and a Professor of Medicine (Discipline of Dermatology) at the University of Sydney.

He has been researching and treating patients with skin cancer since 1988. For the majority of this time his activities have been solely related to skin cancer. In particular, he has a strong clinical interest in methods for the diagnosis of melanoma and moles. His main research interest involves the development of instrumentation for the diagnosis of melanoma on the skin. He also has a strong background in teaching undergraduates, general practitioners and specialists on methods for diagnosing melanoma and is the author of 5 books on this subject.

Scott Menzies has given over 150 conference or institutional invited presentations on skin cancer, including an invited speaker for over 70 presentations at International venues. He has been, or is currently, a member of 10 skin cancer advisory committees including that which developed the Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Melanoma in Australia and New Zealand (Australian Cancer Network, NH&MRC) and is the continental representative of both the International Dermoscopy Society and the International Confocal Microscopy Working Group.

He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. He has  over 90 publications on the subject of skin cancer.

Dr Pascale Guitera 

Dermatologist, Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre
Research Fellow
Discipline of Dermatology
The University of Sydney

Pascale Guitera is a Dermatologist, originally from France, specializing in skin tumours. She was responsible for the Extreme High-risk clinic at the unit.

Recently she has completed her PhD in collaboration with the Curie Institute (one of Europe’s leading scientific institutions) on instrumentations for the diagnosis of skin tumours (dermoscopy, digital monitoring, total body photography, in vivo reflectance confocal microscopy, 75MHz high frequency ultrasound, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and multiphoton microscopy).

She has a particular interest in the technique of in vivo confocal microscopy that allows non-invasive “optical” biopsies of the skin and is a world expert in this field. She has 22 publications.

Associate Professor  Fergal Moloney

Dermatologist
Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre
Associate Professor (Discipline of Dermatology)
The University of Sydney

Associate Professor  Fergal Moloney is a Staff Specialist in the Department of Dermatology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian College of Dermatologists.

Dr. Moloney’s research interests include diagnostic techniques and non-surgical approaches to the treatment and prevention of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers in both immunocompetent individuals and transplant recipients. He has been an invited speaker and presented his research at over 20 international conferences. He has published15 papers and co-authored two book chapters in the field of skin cancer.

His role in the Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre includes conducting research into diagnosis and prevention of both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers.

Dr Kerry Crotty MB BS, BSc (Med), FRCPA, FACD 

Dermatologist, Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre
Dermatopathologist

Kerry Crotty is a dermatologist at the Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre and a Dermatopathologist.

Sharon Lorger

Sharon, who began her career as a registered nurse, has been a clinical secretary involved exclusively with skin cancer for the past 19 years.