Working party members and contributors
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Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Working Party members and contributors[edit source]
Please see the Administrative Report for information on the process and criteria for selecting members.
Management Committee[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Specialty | Section |
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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[edit source]
Name | Specialty |
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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[edit source]
Colorectal cancer in Australia[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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 [edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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[edit source]
Name | Affiliation |
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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