Working party members and contributors

Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Working Party members and contributors

Please see the Administrative Report for information on the process and criteria for selecting members.

Management Committee

Name	Affiliation
Professor Timothy Price (Chair)	Chair, Management Committee and Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Revision Working Party Medical Oncologist, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide
Professor Sanchia Aranda	CEO, Cancer Council Australia
Dr Cameron Bell	Gastroenterologist, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney
Professor Alexander (Sandy) Heriot	Consultant Colorectal Surgeon Director Cancer Surgery, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Director, Lower GI Tumour Stream, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre
Professor Finlay Macrae AO	Gastroenterologist, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne
Dr Elizabeth Murphy	Head, Colorectal Surgical Unit, Lyell McEwin Hospital Adelaide
Professor Michael Solomon	Colorectal Surgeon, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
Professor James St John AO	Emeritus Consultant Gastroenterologist, The Royal Melbourne Hospital; Honorary Senior Associate, Cancer Council Victoria; Honorary Clinical Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Dr Bernie Towler	Principal Medical Adviser, Population Health Division, Department of Health, Canberra
Ms Jutta Thwaites	Head, Clinical Guidelines Network (maternity leave from November 2016 - November 2017)
Ms Laura Wuellner	Acting Head, Clinical Guidelines Network (from November 2016 - January 2018)
Professor John R Zalcberg	Head of Cancer at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne

Guideline section leaders

Name	Specialty	Section
Professor Finlay Macrae AO	Gastroenterology	Primary prevention
Professor James St John AO	Gastroenterology	Population screening for colorectal cancer (co-lead)
Dr Hooi Ee	Gastroenterology	Population screening for colorectal cancer (co-lead)
Professor Mark Jenkins	Genetic epidemiology, cancer epidemiology (colorectal cancer, Lynch syndrome, genetic epidemiology)	Risk and screening based on family history
Professor Jon Emery	General practice	The symptomatic patient
Professor Phyllis Butow	Psycho-oncology	Psychosocial care
Professor Barbara Leggett	Gastroenterology	High-risk familial syndromes
Dr Kirsten Gormly	Radiology	Imaging a patient with a diagnosis of colon/rectal adenocarcinoma
Dr Andrew Luck OAM	Colorectal surgery	Elective and emergency surgery colon
Professor Alexander (Sandy) Heriot	Colorectal surgery	Elective and emergency surgery for colon and rectal cancer
Dr Elizabeth Murphy	Colorectal surgery	Preparation for surgery and peri-operative optimisation
Professor Pierre Chapuis	Colorectal surgery	Pathology and staging (co-lead)
A/Professor Charles Chan	Pathology	Pathology and staging (co-lead)
A/Professor Peter Gibbs	Medical oncology	Adjuvant therapy for colon cancer
Professor Desmond Yip	Medical oncology	Neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy for rectal cancer (co-lead)
Dr Kathryn Field	Medical oncology	Neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy for rectal cancer (co-lead)
Dr Peter J. Lee	Colorectal surgery	Follow up after curative resection for colorectal cancer
Dr Cherry Koh	Colorectal surgery	Management of resectable locally recurrent disease and metastatic disease
Dr Louise Nott	Medical oncology	Management of non-resectable locally recurrent disease and metastatic disease; The role of systemic therapies in non-resectable metastatic disease

Additional working party members

Name	Specialty
Jeff Cuff	Consumer representative
Jillian Arnott	Consumer representative
Professor Karen Canfell	Director, Cancer Research Division, Cancer Council NSW (Epidemiology expert)
Professor Dianne O’Connell	Senior Epidemiologist, Manager, Cancer Research Division, Cancer Council NSW (Epidemiology expert)

Chapter details

Colorectal cancer in Australia

Name	Affiliation
Dr Prema Thavaneswaran*	Manager, Public Health Policy, Cancer Council Australia
Professor Jane Young	Executive Director, Research, Institute of Academic Surgery, Executive Director, Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe) Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and University of Sydney, Professor in Cancer Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Professor Michael Solomon	Colorectal Surgeon, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney

*Section lead author

Primary prevention

Name	Affiliation
Professor Finlay Macrae AO*	Gastroenterologist, Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC
Dr Julie Clarke	Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Adelaide
Professor Jon Emery	General Practitioner
Professor Mark Jenkins	Risk and screening based on family history
Dr Trevor Lockett	Group Leader Personalised Health, CSIRO, Adelaide
Professor John McNeil	Head, Monash University School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Melbourne
Professor Allan Spigelman	Professor of Surgery, UNSW St Vincent's Clinical School, Sydney; Director, Cancer Genetics, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney and Hunter Family Cancer Service, Newcastle & Regional NSW
Dr Nicholas Pachter	Clinical Geneticist, Genetic Services of Western Australia, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Perth, Western Australia
Dr Aung Ko Win	Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Epidemiology & Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne
A/Professor Robyn Woods	Associate Professor, Monash University
Professor Graeme Young AM	Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor, Professor of Global Gastrointestinal Health, Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
Professor John R Zalcberg	Head of Cancer at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne

*Section lead author

Population screening for colorectal cancer

Name	Affiliation
Professor James St John AO*	Emeritus Consultant Gastroenterologist, The Royal Melbourne Hospital; Honorary Senior Associate, Cancer Council Victoria; Honorary Clinical Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Dr Hooi Ee*	Gastroenterologist, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth
Professor Jon Emery	Honorary Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Winthrop Professor of General Practice at the Western University of Australia and Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research at the University of Melbourne (also practising GP)
Professor Finlay Macrae AO	Gastroenterologist, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne
Professor Mark Jenkins	Director of the Centre for Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Melbourne
Paul Grogan	Director, Public Policy & Knowledge Management, Cancer Council Australia
Professor Karen Canfell	Director, Cancer Research Division, Cancer Council NSW
Ms Jie-Bin Lew	Senior Research Programmer, Cancer Council NSW
Ms Rachel Mulqueeney	Cancer Screening Project Coordinator Prevention Division Cancer Council Victoria
Dr Albert Chetcuti	Senior Project Officer, Cancer Council Australia

*Section lead author

The symptomatic patient

Name	Affiliation
Professor Jon Emery*	General Practitioner
Dr Cameron Bell	Gastroenterologist – Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney
A/Professor Gregor Brown	Head of Endoscopy, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
Professor Finlay Macrae AO	Gastroenterologist, Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC
Dr Iain Skinner	Colorectal surgeon
A/Professor Justin Tse	Director of Medical Student Education (Clinical Dean) St Vincent’s Clinical School, The University of Melbourne

*Section lead author

Risk and screening based on family history

Name	Affiliation
Professor Mark Jenkins*	Director of the Centre for Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
Professor Alex Boussioutas	GE at University of Melbourne, Pter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne
Dr Driss Ait Quakrim	Research Fellow – Epidemiologist, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Professor John Hopper AM	Academic, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
Professor James St John AO	Emertius Consultant Gastroenterologist, The Royal Melbourne Hospital; Honorary Senior Associate, Cancer Council Victoria; Honorary Clinical Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Dr Hooi Ee	Gastroenterologist, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth
Professor Jon Emery	Honorary Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Winthrop Professor of General Practice at the Western University of Australia and Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research at the University of Melbourne (also practising GP)
Professor Finlay Macrae AO	Gastroenterologist, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne

*Section lead author

High-risk familial syndromes

Name	Affiliation
Professor Barbara Leggett*	Gastroenterologist, Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital; Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Queensland; Honorary Group Leader, Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer
Dr Nicola Poplawski	Clinical Geneticist, SA Pathology, South Australia
Dr Nicholas Pachter	Clinical Geneticist, Genetic Services of Western Australia, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Perth, Western Australia
Dr Christophe Rosty	Anatomical Pathologist at Envoi Specialist Pathologist; Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Pathology, University of Queensland; Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne
A/Prof Ian Norton	Head, Department of Gastroenterology, Royal North Shore Hospital
Professor Finlay Macrae AO	Gastroenterologist, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne
A/Prof Caroline Wright	Colorectal surgeon, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
Dr Aung Ko Win	Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Epidemiology & Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne

*Section lead author

Imaging a patient with a diagnosis of colon/rectal adenocarcinoma

Name	Affiliation
Dr Kirsten Gormly*	Radiologist, Dr Jones and Partners, SA
Dr Wendy Brown	Senior Staff Specialist, Radiology Department, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW
Dr Damien Stella	Director of CT, Department of Radiology, University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC
Professor Eva Segelov	Professor/Director of Oncology, Monash Health and Monash University, VIC
Dr Elizabeth (Liz) Murphy*	Head, Colorectal Surgical Unit, Lyell McEwin Hospital Adelaide, SA
Professor Timothy (Tim) Price	Chair, Management Committee and Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Revision Working Party. Medical Oncologist, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA

*Section lead author

Pathology and staging

Name	Affiliation
Professor Pierre Chapuis*	Head, Academic Surgery, the Concord Clinical School and Director of Postgraduate Surgical Education, Discipline of Surgery, the University of Sydney
Associate Professor Charles Chan*	Senior Staff Specialist, Anatomical Pathology Department, Concord Repatriation General Hospital; Clinical Associate Professor, Concord Clinical School, Discipline of Medicine; School of Medical Sciences, Discipline of Biomedical Science, University of Sydney
Dr Louise Nott	Medical Oncologist, Royal Hobart Hospital and St John’s Hospital
A/Prof Muhammad Khattak	Consultant Medical Oncologist, Fiona Stanley Hospital
Professor Timothy Price	Chair, Management Committee and Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Revision Working Party Medical Oncologist, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, SA
Dr Amanda Townsend	Oncologist, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, SA
Dr Albert Chetcuti	Senior Project Officer, Cancer Council Australia

*Section lead author

Preparation for surgery and peri-operative optimisation

Name	Affiliation
Dr Elizabeth (Liz) Murphy*	Head, Colorectal Surgical Unit, Lyell McEwin Hospital Adelaide, SA
Dr Karen Barclay	Colorectal Surgeon and Senior Lecturer in Surgery, Acting Head of the Academic Surgical Unit, NCHER, The Northern Hospital and the University of Melbourne, VIC
Dr Kate Burbury	Lead Haematologist for Haemostasis and Thrombosis, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC
Dr Bernd Froessler	Staff Specialist, Anaesthesia, Lyell McEwin Hospital; Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide
Professor Alexander (Sandy) Heriot*	Colorectal Surgeon, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC
Dr Cherry Koh	Colorectal surgeon, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
Professor Timothy (Tim) Price	Medical Oncologist, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, SA
Dr Kathryn Robinson	Transfusion medicine specialist, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Haematologist, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, SA

*Section lead author

Elective and emergency surgery for colon and rectal cancer

Name	Affiliation
Professor Alexander (Sandy) Heriot*	Colorectal Surgeon, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC
Dr Andrew Luck OAM*	Colorectal Surgeon, Lyell McEwin Hospital, Adelaide, SA
Dr Cherry Koh*	Colorectal surgeon, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
Dr Carina Chow	Colorectal Surgeon , Royal Brisbane Hospital, QLD
Dr Chip Farmer	Colorectal Surgeon, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC
Dr Henry Hicks	General Surgeon, Wagga Wagga Specialist Medical Centre, NSW
Professor Cameron Platell	Director of Colorectal Cancer Research, St John of God Subiaco Hospital, WA
Dr Bruce Stewart	Colorectal Surgeon, The Specialist Centre, Ballarat; Consultant Medical Oncologist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre & Western Health Senior Research Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, VIC
Dr Andrew Stevenson	Specialist Colorectal Surgeon, Head of Colorectal Surgery at Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital, Associate Professor, The University of Queensland, QLD

*Section lead author

Adjuvant therapy for colon cancer

Name	Affiliation
Professor Peter Gibbs*	Laboratory Head, Walter & Eliza Hall, Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, VIC
Dr Margaret Lee	Medical Oncologist, Department of Medical Oncology, Eastern Health and Western Health
Dr Jeanne Tie	Consultant Medical Oncologist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre & Western Health Senior Research Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Professor Timothy (Tim) Price	Medical Oncologist, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, SA

*Section lead Author

Neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy for rectal cancer

Name	Affiliation
Professor Desmond Yip*	Medical Oncologist and Clinical Director, The Canberra Hospital, Australian National University; Honorary Associate, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, ACT
Dr Kathryn Field*	Medical Oncologist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Professor Les Bokey	Colorectal Surgeon, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, NSW
Associate Professor George Hruby	Senior Staff Specialist Royal North Shore Hospital and Genesis Cancer Care
Professor Ian Jones	Colorectal Surgeon, Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC
Professor Christos Karapetis	Medical Oncologist, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, SA
Dr Elizabeth (Liz) Murphy	Head, Colorectal Surgical Unit, Lyell McEwin Hospital, Adelaide, SA
A/Professor Sam Ngan	Head of the GI Unit of the Department of Radiation Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC
Dr Kirsten Gormly*	Radiologist, Dr Jones and Partners Medical Imaging, Adelaide, SA
Professor Alexander (Sandy) Heriot	Colorectal Surgeon, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC

*Section lead author

Management of resectable locally recurrent disease and metastatic disease

Name	Affiliation
Dr Cherry Koh*	Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe), Sydney, NSW
Dr Andrew Luck OAM	Colorectal Surgeon, Lyell McEwin Hospital Adelaide
Dr Nicholas O’Rourke	Surgeon (laparoscopic and hepatobiliary), Wesley Hospital, Brisbane, QLD
Dr Kirsten Gormly	Radiologist, Dr Jones and Partners Medical Imaging, Adelaide
Professor Tristan Yan	Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the Macquarie University Hospital and Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Sydney, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW
Dr Peter Lee	Colorectal surgeon (visiting), Colorectal, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Chris O'Brien Lifehouse, St Luke's Hospital, Sydney, NSW
Professor Alexander (Sandy) Heriot	Colorectal surgeon, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria

*Section lead author

Management of non-resectable locally recurrent disease and metastatic disease

Name	Affiliation
Dr Louise Nott*	Medical Oncologist, Royal Hobart Hospital and St John's Hospital, TAS
A/Prof Muhammad Khattak	Consultant Medical Oncologist, Fiona Stanley Hospital
Dr Amanda Townsend	Senior Medical Oncologist the Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Professor Timothy (Tim) Price	Medical Oncologist, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, SA

* Section lead author

The role of systemic therapies in non-resectable metastatic disease

Name	Affiliation
Dr Louise Nott*	Medical Oncologist, Royal Hobart Hospital and St John's Hospital, TAS
A/Prof Muhammad Khattak	Consultant Medical Oncologist, Fiona Stanley Hospital
Dr Amanda Townsend	Senior Medical Oncologist the Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Professor Timothy (Tim) Price	Medical Oncologist, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, SA

* Section lead author

Follow up after curative resection for colorectal cancer

Name	Affiliation
Dr Peter J. Lee*	Colorectal surgeon (visiting), Colorectal, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Chris O'Brien Lifehouse, St Luke's Hospital, Sydney, NSW
Dr Andrew Gilmore	Head: Colorectal Unit Liverpool Hospital; Chairman: Complex Pelvic Surgery Liverpool Hospital
Professor Phillip Beale	Director, Cancer Services and Palliative Care, SLHD; Director Concord Cancer Centre; Head of Medical Oncology, CRGH; University of Sydney

*Section lead author

Psychosocial care

Name	Affiliation
Professor Phyllis Butow*	Chair Psycho-Oncology Co-operative Research Group (PoCoG), and Co Director of the Centre for Medical Psychology and Evidence-based Medicine (CeMPED) and of the Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SoURCe), University of Sydney
Professor Afaf Girgis	Director, Psycho-Oncology Research Group, Centre for Oncology Education and Research Translation, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of NSW

*Section lead author

Referring to the large bowel, comprising the colon and rectum.

Measures to prevent the onset of disease. This may include prevention strategies to modify cancer risk factors, such as dietary and lifestyle interventions, and medical interventions to enhance resistance to the effects of exposure to a disease agent, such as chemoprevention and vaccines.

Using scans, including nuclear medicine, to create images of the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention.

A medical specialty that determines the cause and nature of diseases by examining and testing body tissues, for instance from laboratory examination of samples of body tissue.

A treatment given with or shortly after another treatment to make it more effective. This usually refers to surgery followed by chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

A medical professional who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to a wide range of patients.

Performing tests to identify disease in people before any symptoms appear.