Pioneer of Victorian Melanoma Service awarded
Congratulations to Adjunct Professor John Kelly, head of the Victorian Melanoma Service, on being awarded the Member of the Order of Australia.
Melanoma research
The Victorian Melanoma Service is a multidisciplinary consultative clinic for the management of melanoma and is one of the largest such clinics in Australia.
Melanoma research is also conducted by Medical Oncology, in partership with the Victorian Melanoma Service and the Melbourne Melanoma Project.
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Achievements
- Dr Victoria Mar received an Award for Thesis Excellence from the Monash School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine for her doctoral thesis ‘Clinical and molecular analyses of aggressive melanoma.
- Dr Charles Xie was awarded the 2015 Monash Comprehensive Cancer Consortium Prize for Best Poster in Cancer Research at Alfred Health Week for his poster entitled ‘Scalp melanoma - distinctive high risk clinical and histological features’. Dr Xie also a won Best Poster prize at the 2015 Australasian College of Dermatologists Annual Scientific Meeting.
- Dr Diana Norris and Dr Charles Xie received World Congress of Dermatology Trainee Scholarships to attend the 23rd World Congress of Dermatology in Vancouver, Canada in 2015.
Postgraduate students
1 PhD student
Current research
Predictors of melanoma prognosis
A series of three publications reported studies investigating the prognosis associated with melanomas.
Find out moreMelbourne Melanoma Project
The Melbourne Melanoma project is a research project that has multiple platforms to enable researchers to better understand melanoma.
Find out moreMelanoma diagnosis research
In 2015 we explored the key reasons why certain aggressive melanoma subtypes elude diagnosis compared with more recognised subtypes.
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Publications
The Australasian Psoriasis Collaboration view on methotrexate for psoriasis in the Australasian setting
Rademaker M, Gupta M, Andrews M, Armour K, Baker C, Foley P, Gebauer K, George J, Rubel D, Sullivan J
(2017), Australas J Dermatol, 58(3), 166-70
DOI: 10.1111/ajd.12521
Debunking the myth of wool allergy: reviewing the evidence for immune and non-immune cutaneous reactions
Zallmann M, Smith PK, Tang MLK, Spelman LJ, Cahill JL, Wortmann G, Katelaris CH, Allen KJ, Su JC
(2017), Acta Derm Venereol, 97(8), 906-15
Keratoacanthoma formation after skin grafting: a brief report and pathophysiological hypothesis
Lee S, Coutts I, Ryan A, Stavrakoglou A
(2017), Australas J Dermatol, 58(3), e117-9
DOI: 10.1111/ajd.12501
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