Assoc. Professor Scott W. Menzies

Director
Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre
Melanoma & Skin Cancer Research Institute, Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Associate Professor Medicine (Melanoma & Skin Oncology)
University of Sydney

Scott Menzies is the Director of the Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre and an Associate Professor of Medicine (Melanoma & Skin Oncology) at the University of Sydney.

He has been researching and treating patients with skin cancer since 1988 and has been a clinician at the Sydney Melanoma Unit since 1991. 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 research interests include the development of instrumentation for the diagnosis of melanoma, melanoma vaccines, and animal models of skin cancer. He also has a strong background in teaching undergraduates, general practitioners and specialists on methods for diagnosing melanoma and is the author of 3 books on this subject.

Scott Menzies has given over 60 conference presentations on skin cancer, including an invited speaker for 30 presentations at International conferences. He has been, or is currently, a member of 10 skin cancer advisory committees including that which developed the Australian Guidelines for the Management of Cutaneous Melanoma (Australian Cancer Network, NH&MRC) and is a secretary of the International Dermoscopy Society. He is on the council of the Melanoma Foundation, a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Melanoma & Skin Cancer Research Institute and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the British Journal of Plastic Surgery. He has 48 publications on the subject of skin cancer

Professor William H. McCarthy

Deputy Director
Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre
Director, Melanoma & Skin Cancer Research Institute
Emeritus Professor of Surgery (Melanoma & Skin Oncology)
University of Sydney

Professor William McCarthy AM, is Emeritus Professor of Surgery (Melanoma and Skin Oncology) at The University of Sydney, Director of the Melanoma and Skin Cancer Research Institute, and a Director of the Melanoma Foundation and Deputy Director of the Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre.

Professor McCarthy has been involved in the clinical management of people with melanoma for thirty years and has directed the Sydney Melanoma Unit for fifteen years until 1999. He was instrumental in the formation of MASCRI (Melanoma and Skin Cancer Research Institute) by bringing together the melanoma and skin cancer research activity of a variety of units within The University of Sydney, The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the Newcastle Melanoma Unit and the Westmead Melanoma Genetics Unit.

Professor W H McCarthy was awarded the Order of Australia for his work in melanoma education, general medical education and melanoma surgery. He has served the committee structure of the Australian Cancer Society, the Australian Cancer Network, the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia and the NSW Cancer Council. Professor McCarthy was also convenor of the committee which developed the Australian Guidelines for the Management of Cutaneous Melanoma. He was the convenor of the 4th World Conference on Melanoma in 1997, and is on the organising committee for the 5th & 6th World Conferences. He has convened 12 major meetings on medical education, has participated as a speaker or chairman in more than 30 major skin cancer and educational meetings.

In February 2001 Professor William McCarthy was the recipient of a special WHO award for "a lifetime devoted to melanoma research".

Michelle Avramidis, BSc

Michelle has been involved in scientific research since graduating from BSc at the University of Sydney in 1996. After working in multiple research fields she began her work in skin cancer in 1998. Michelle is responsible for performing and maintaining the digital monitoring imaging systems is actively involved in the major research projects of the centre.

Sharon Lorger

Sharon, who began her career as a registered nurse, has been a clinical secretary involved exclusively with skin cancer for the past 12 years.