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Prof Stuart Roberts
Head of Hepatology
- Liver research
- Hepatitis
- Fatty liver disease
Prof Stuart Roberts is the Head of Hepatology and a consultant gastroenterologist at The Alfred.
Having completed a Hepatology Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in the USA, Professor Roberts was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine by the University of Melbourne for his liver research.
More recently, he completed a Master of Public Health at Monash University with High Distinction.
His main research interests are hepatocellular carcinoma, viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, fatty liver disease, and non-invasive markers of liver disease.
He has been Principal Investigator in over 165 sponsored and investigator-initiated clinical trials from phase I - IV. Professor Roberts has published more than 170 original articles across a range of high-impact journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Gut, Hepatology, and Journal of Hepatology.
Most significant trial
The Phase III randomised controlled trial of sofosbuvir and velpatasvir in patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 3 infection. This was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and is now the standard of care for the vast majority of patients with chronic hepatitis C.
Prof Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld
Senior Neurosurgeon
- Concussion
- Bionic eye
Prof Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld is Senior Neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery at The Alfred, and Professor of Surgery, Monash University.
His research interests are on improving the outcome for patients with traumatic brain injury and restoring sight to blind individuals using bionic vision, a wireless electrode interface with the brain.
He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, the Australian Academy Technological Sciences and Engineering, and an International Fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons.
Prof Mark Shackleton
Director of Oncology
- Cancer
- Melanoma
- Brain cancer
Prof Mark Shackleton is the Director of Oncology at Alfred Health, a Professor of Oncology at Monash University, Chair of Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials Ltd, and Co-Director of the Monash Partners Comprehensive Cancer Consortium.
Prof Mark Shackleton is the Director of Oncology at Alfred Health, a Professor of Oncology at Monash University, a Victorian Cancer Agency Clinical Research Fellow, Chair of Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials Ltd and a Director of Cancer Trials Australia Ltd.
After training in medical oncology at the Ludwig Institute in Melbourne, he undertook PhD studies at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, and post-doctoral work at the University of Michigan, USA, with resultant publications in Nature, Cell, Cancer Cell and the New England Journal of Medicine.
He has received several major prizes for his research:
- 2016 Victorian Cancer Agency Clinical Research Fellowship
- 2012 Australian Science Minister’s Prize for Life Scientist of the Year
- 2011 Pfizer Australia Fellowship
- 2010 NHMRC Achievement Award
- 2006 Victorian Premier’s Award for Medical Research
His clinical interests include melanoma and skin cancers, precision oncology and immunotherapy.
A/Prof de Villiers Smit
Director Emergency & Trauma Centre, The Alfred, Director Emergency Services Alfred Health
- Trauma reception and resuscitation
- Emergency department stroke management
- Sepsis management
- Drugs and alcohol
De Villiers is an experienced Emergency Physician with a strong interest in clinical research, systems design, quality improvement and patient flow.
As Director of Emergency Services at Alfred Health and Director of The Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, de Villiers oversees the busiest trauma centre in Australasia and has been instrumental in developing and implementing several care models to improve patient care and experience.
De Villiers holds additional appointments as Clinical Program Director, Emergency and Intensive Care, Alfred Health, overseeing the governance of emergency medicine and intensive care, and Associate Professor at Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. He has previously worked in major trauma centres in South Africa, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
When the COVID-19 pandemic saw unprecedented disruption to usual models of care, de Villiers led the team that enacted new approaches to staff and patient safety, drawing on his experiences leading the emergency medicine team in Hong Kong during the 2003 SARS outbreak. Thanks to the ongoing dedication of these teams, the Alfred and Sandringham emergency departments have maintained uninterrupted service delivery to the community throughout the pandemic.
A/Prof Simon Stafrace
Program Director, Alfred Mental & Addiction Health
- Mental health policy
- Depression
- Schizophrenia
- Working with families affected by mental illness
- Mental health services
A/Prof Simon Stafrace is the Program Director of Mental & Addiction Health at Alfred Health. In this role, he is clinically responsible for services provided by Alfred Health, exclusively or in partnership with non-government and community health organisations, across parts of the southern metropolitan region.
Simon holds an honorary appointment as Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. He is also Chair of the Community Collaboration Committee of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) which brings the voice of lived and living experience to the policy, education and advocacy work of the College.
Simon is a Fellow of the RANZCP, and an accredited member of its Faculties of Adult & Old Age Psychiatry. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Clinical Governance. He has postgraduate academic qualifications in psychological medicine, clinical hypnosis and health administration. He has held leadership positions in professional & community organisations, including as a board member.
Simon recently completed a secondment to the Victorian Department of Health as Chief Adviser from 2020-22. In that role, he contributed to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System, and was a member of the senior executive team tasked with early implementation of its recommendations, and the establishment of Mental Health Reform Victoria and the Division of Mental Health & Wellbeing.
Mr Jin Tee
Neurosurgeon
- Neurosurgery
- Spine surgery
Mr Jin Tee is a complex spine and brain surgeon. His surgical practice focuses on minimally invasive (MIS) and open surgical solutions for degenerative spinal disorders (including pars defect repairs), spinal tumours, spinal deformity including scoliosis, cranio-cervical junction abnormalities, and spine trauma. He also treats brain trauma, tumours, and brain fluid (CSF) flow dysfunction.
Mr Tee is heavily involved in clinical research. He concentrates on clinical outcomes of spine surgery in the fields of spine trauma, degenerative spine and spine oncology. He is involved in registry-based studies in Australia and North America to ultimately assist in improving the international quality of spine care. He is also involved internationally in spinal cord and spine column injury research. He is an active research member of the AO Spine International Oncology Study Group and a clinical researcher at the National Trauma Research Institute (NTRI). He is part of the medical advisory group (Monash Vision Group) for the Bionic Eye project in Melbourne.
Mr Tee was a medical graduate of the University of Melbourne and a Melbourne-based Australian Neurosurgery trainee. He has completed a post-graduate Doctorate of Medicine at Monash University (Melbourne). He then completed the AO Spine North America Complex Spine Surgery Fellowship at the world-renowned Vancouver Spine Institute, Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia.
Mr Thodur Vasudevan
Head of Vascular Surgery and Deputy Programme Director Surgical Services
- Vascular surgery
Mr Vasudevan, who likes to be called Vasu, comes to us from Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand, where he has been a vascular and endovascular surgeon for more than fifteen years. Waikato is a major referral and trauma centre for New Zealand’s mid North Island and serves a population of around 900,000.
Originally from India, Vasu has General Surgery and Vascular Surgery fellowships from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) and in addition he also holds a fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow. Vasu has been very active with the RACS, being a member of the Board of Vascular Surgery, including Board Chair for three years. He has also been an examiner in Vascular Surgery since 2009.
Vasu’s academic interests include senior lecturer at the Waikato Clinical School, University of Auckland. He has ongoing research interests and has a number of peer reviewed publications and book chapters.
Dr Anita Vinton
- Epilepsy
Dr Mark Voskoboynik
Dr Mark Voskoboynik is a Medical Oncologist at Alfred Health.
After completing his Medical Oncology training in Australia, he spent 2 years undertaking a Clinical Research Fellowship at Guy’s Hospital and the drug development unit at Sarah Cannon Research Institute in London, UK.
He has specific subspecialty interests in Phase I clinical trials, genitourinary cancers, lung cancer and melanoma. He is an experienced and very active Principal Investigator, with a particular focus on Phase I, including first-in-human, clinical trials. He is the current chair of the Cancer Trials Australia Genitourinary Tumour Group.
He is passionate about teaching and education and is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Central Clinical School of Monash University. In addition, he is the Clinical Trialist fellowship program mentor of TrialHub, an Alfred Health led, Federal Government funded initiative to improve access of cancer clinical trials in regional and remote Victoria.
He has co-authored publications in peer-reviewed journals and presented at local and international meetings.
Professional associations and appointments
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer (Alfred Campus of the Central Clinical School, Monash University)
- Clinical Trialist fellowship program mentor, TrialHub
- Chair, Genitourinary Tumour Group, Cancer Trials Australia
Professional memberships
- Medical Oncology Group of Australia
- American Society of Clinical Oncology
- European Society for Medical Oncology
- Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group
- Thoracic Oncology Group of Australasia
- Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials
A/Prof Antony Walton
Deputy Director and Head of Catheter Laboratory
- Interventional Cardiology
- Structural heart disease
- Hypertension
- Heart valve replacement
Dr Tony Walton is Deputy Director and Head of Catheter Laboratory in the Department of Cardiology. He is a clinician, interventional cardiologist who specialises in structural heart procedures.
Tony is an interventional cardiologist based at The Alfred and is an Associate Professor in Medicine at Monash University. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at The Baker Institute as well as Head of the Structural Heart Programme at the The Alfred and Director of the Cardiac Interventional Laboratories at Western Health.
His training in cardiology was at The Alfred and further postgraduate training in interventional cardiology was undertaken at Stanford University Medical Centre in the United States.
His professional interests include general and interventional cardiology with particular interests in structural heart disease and hypertension. The developing areas of percutaneous valve replacement and interventional techniques for the treatment of common conditions such as hypertension are particular interests. He has published his clinical and research work in peer reviewed manuscripts on subjects including the novel techniques of percutaneous aortic valve replacement and renal denervation for refractory hypertension
Prof Glen Westall
Head of Paediatric Lung Transplantation
- Lung transplantation
- Lung fibrosis
Professor Glen Westall is a highly regarded specialist in the area of advanced lung disease, specifically in the fields of lung fibrosis and lung transplantation.
He is Consultant Chest and Lung Transplant Physician at The Alfred. He oversees an active research program that receives both national and international research grants. For his work in transplantation, he was the first non-American recipient of an International Career Development Award.
Prof Westall sits on a number of local, national and international academic/medical committees and is past-Chair of the Lung Advisory Committee of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ), the peak advisory board to the National Transplant Authority. He is Chair of the Advanced Lung Failure and Transplantation Steering Committee of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), the leading multidisciplinary global community for cardiothoracic transplantation. He is a foundation member of the Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Collaborative Research Consortium and is a chief investigator of the NHMRC Centre of Excellence in Lung Fibrosis.
His career to date has been built on the principals of clinical excellence supported by a rigorous research, teaching and academic platform.
Mr Adam Zimmet
- Cardiothoracic Surgery & Transplantation
Mr Adam Zimmet is a Cardiothoracic & Transplantation Surgeon.