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Haematology Service Team - Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

At Peter MacCallum we have dedicated staff; providing personalised integrated multidisciplinary treatment program delivered in a caring and supporting environment.

Haematology Service Nurse Coordinators

Chair of Haematology Service

Professor John Seymour MBBS FRACP Head of the Haematology Service Professor Seymour received his MB and BS degrees from The University of Melbourne in 1987. He later pursued training in Haematology, including a fellowship, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

Professor Seymour completed his PhD studies at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, here in Melbourne. Actively involved in research, Professor Seymour has received more than $2.5 million dollars of competitive grant funding in the last five years and is national study chairman for 13 ongoing national or international clinical trials. He is a member of several national and international scientific committees – including Cancer Australia Advisory Groups, the Scientific Advisory Committee for the International Workshop on NHL, International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma, and the International Workshop on Myelodysplasia and the Board of Directors of the International Extranodal Lymphoma Study Group. He is the current Chairman, and ex-treasurer, of the major national clinical trials co-operative group in haematologic malignancies, the Australasian Leukaemia & Lymphoma Group, and previous board member of the Leukaemia Foundation of Victoria (2000-05). Professor Seymour is frequently an invited speaker nationally and internationally, member of numerous professional societies, the Editor-in-Chief of Leukaemia and Lymphoma, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, British Journal of Haematology, and Leukaemia Research. He has also authored 13 book chapters, more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, and approximately 350 conference abstracts.

Haematologist

Professor John Seymour Dr Kate Burbury Dr Neil Came Dr Dennis Carney Dr Michael Dickinson Associate Professor Simon Harrison Dr Kirsten Herbert Dr Henry Januszewicz Professor Miles Prince Associate Professor David Ritchie Dr Constantine Tam Dr David Westerman Associate Professor Max Wolf

Surgical Oncology

Professor Robert JS Thomas OAM Professor Michael Henderson Mr David Speakman

Radiation Oncology

Associate Professor Michael MacManus Dr Gail Ryan Dr Andrew Wirth

Nurse Coordinators

Ms Odette Buelens Ms Sharna Debnam Ms Cath Grima Ms Trish Joyce Ms Yvonne Panek-Hudson