The Australian School of Advanced Medicine
Faculty Members
Teaching Faculty
Professor Michael Morgan MD, MMedEd (Syd), FRACS
Professor Morgan is Dean of the Australian School of Advanced Medicine. Professor Morgan is an eminent neurosurgeon with an impressive background in both neurovascular surgery for stroke prevention and research. He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals along with contributing chapters in the leading books in neurosurgery. He trained in Australia and at the Mayo Clinic in the US. Professor Morgan helped to develop the neuroscience course and taught while he was Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Sydney. He was selected by Macquarie University to direct the Australian School of Advanced Medicine because of his skills as an educator and a clinician. He is an international member of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery. Email: michael.morgan@mq.edu.au
Professor Rufus Clarke, MA, MD, PhD (Cantab), MPH (Syd), FRACS, FAFPHM
Professor Clarke is is Head of the Centre for the Advancement of Medical Education. He originally trained in physiology and medicine, and held academic posts in physiology and anatomy in the United Kingdom, before migrating to Australiain 1976 to help establish the medical school in Newcastle NSW. He also worked as a health service planner in the west of Sydney. He has held professorial positions in medical education at the University of Sydney and the University of Western Sydney. He has published in laboratory science, health care evaluation and health promotion as well as medical education. Email: rufus.clarke@mq.edu.au
Professor John Cartmill MM (Syd), FRACS
Professor Cartmill is the Professor of Surgery. He is an academic surgeon. He brings expertise in human factors, team training, surgical ergonomics and patient safety. Professor Cartmill is a colorectal surgeon, trained in Australia and the United States (Cleveland Clinic) and also brings experience from biomedical engineering and industry. His research is guided by the understanding that many fields of human endeavour are realized in surgery; engineering, linguistics, psychology, informatics, mathematics, psychology and the arts. Email: john.cartmill@mq.edu.au
Professor Hosen Kiat, MB BS, FRACP, FACP, FACC, FCCP, FCANZ, FASNC, DDU
Professor Kiat is Professor of Cardiology. He was Director of Cardiac and Nuclear Medicine Imaging Research at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, UCLA in Los Angeles and is American Board Certified in Internal medicine, Cardiology and Nuclear medicine. He has over 100 peer-reviewed journal publications, books and book chapters. His research interests include cardiovascular imaging and preventative cardiology. He has extensive experience in medical education most recently in the development and implementation of the new curriculum both in Australia and abroad. Email: hosen@chi.org.au
Professor Stuart Graham, MB BS, PhD, MS, FRANZCO
Professor Graham is the Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science. He trained at the University of Sydney with a two-year clinical and research fellowship in glaucoma at the University of British Columbia. He did a Masters in Surgery at University of New South Wales and a PhD at Sydney University. He is a Research Officer at the Save Sight Institute, Sydney University and VMO at Sydney Eye Hospital. He has published over 70 papers and co-written three book chapters. He is Secretary of the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia. Email: stuart.graham@asam.mq.edu.au
Professor Marcus Stoodley BMedSc, MB BS, PhD, FRACS
Professor Stoodley is the Head of Neurosurgery. He trained at the University of Queensland and did a PhD in Syringomyelia at the University of Adelaide. He did two years neurovascular fellowship training at the University of Chicago and Stanford University. He has over 20 years’ experience with undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and over 90 publications. His expertise is in the management of complex neurovascular diseases, the management of Syringomyelia and Chiari Malformations. Professor Stoodley’s current research projects include the pathophysiology of Syringomyelia and the molecular biology of arteriovenous malformations. He has received over $1,100,000 in competitive grant funding. He has given over 100 presentations at scientific meetings and more than 30 invited lectures. He has supervised four undergraduate projects and two higher degree projects. Email: marcus.stoodley@mq.edu.au
Professor Dominic B Rowe, BSc(Med), MB BS(Hons), PhD (UNSW), FRACP
Professor Rowe is Professor of Neurology. He first studied biochemistry and medicine and then completed training in internal medicine and neurology in Sydney before completing neurology training at Queen’s Square and Newcastle uponTyne. His doctoral studies on the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease were performed at BaylorCollege of Medicine, Texas and completed at the University of New South Wales. Since returningfrom the USA, he has worked clinically as a neurologist and academic. His research is focused on the mechanisms involved in Parkinson’s disease and Motor Neurone Disease. He is the chairman of the Motor Neurone Disease Research Institute of Australia and is the author of three textbooks and more than 30 original articles. Email: dominic.rowe@mq.edu.au
Professor Tony Eyers, MB BS, Master of Bioethics, FRACS, FRCS
Professor Eyers is the Professor of Ethics in Surgery and Medicine. A colorectal surgeon, he was a research fellow at St Marks Hospital in London and a Fellow in Surgical Oncology at Cornell University Medical College. He has played a major role in surgical training in Sydney and is a founding member of the Sydney Colorectal Surgical Society and the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia, the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, the Centre for Value, Ethics and the Law in Medicine and the Australasian Bioethics Association. He is also a member of the Ethics Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He has presented widely on surgical ethics and published more than 40 papers. Email: tony.eyers@mq.edu.au
Associate Professor William Sears, MB BS (Hons), FRACS
Associate Professor Sears is Director of Spine Surgery. He was one of the first neurosurgeons in Australia to sub-specialise exclusively in spinal surgery. His special interests lie in the fields of complex reconstructive surgery, dynamic stabilisation, spinal oncology and trauma. He is neurosurgeon to the Spinal Injuries Unit of the Royal North Shore Hospital. Through his publications and numerous invited lectures throughout Asia and North America, he has acquired international recognition in the fields of adult degenerative deformity and disc arthroplasty. He has been involved in the design and development of a number of spinal prosthetic implants. His research interests include spinal balance restoration in adult degenerative deformity, dynamic spinal stabilisation kinematics, posterior vertebral reconstruction in tumour/trauma surgery and spinal surgery education. Email: w.sears@mac.com
Associate Professor Geoffrey Painter, MB BS, FRANZCO, FRACS
Associate Professor Painter is Head of Clinical Ophthalmology. He trained at Sydney Eye Hospital followed by a fellowship in cataract and glaucoma surgery at Addenbrook’s Hospital, Cambridge. His special interests include cataract and anterior segment surgery and glaucoma while clinical research interests centre around future developments in phacoemulsification. He is involved in outreach programs in the Solomon Islands and China. Email: g.painter@gordoneye.com.au
Associate Professor Alex P Hunyor MB, BS (Hons), FRANZCO, FRACS
Associate Professor Hunyor is Director of Vitreoretinal Surgery. He trained in ophthalmology in Melbourne before undertaking 3 subspecialty fellowships in vitreoretinal surgery, medical retinal and macular diseases in Melbourne, Oregon Health Sciences University, and Vanderbilt University. He is a member of the Vitreoretinal Unit at Sydney Eye Hospital, and the Retinal Therapeutics Research Unit at the Save Sight Institute. He is the Chairman of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Retinal Specialists. He is involved in numerous clinicalresearch projects in medical and surgical retinal disease, and is on the executive of the Fight Retinal Blindness project. Email:
Associate Professor Des Bokor MB BS(Hons), FRACS, FOrthA
Associate Professor Bokor is Head of Orthopaedics. He has extensive experience in the management of shoulder instability, rotator cuff disease, fractures of the shoulder and shoulder joint replacement surgery. He graduated from Monash University in Melbourne with Honours and completed his Orthopaedic Training in Sydney before doing a Fellowship in Sports Medicine/Knee Surgery in Sydney and a Shoulder Surgery Fellowship at the University of Western Ontario. He is a founding member of the Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australia and is also a member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Society, the Australian Orthopaedic Association, the Australian Medical Association and Sports Medicine Australia. He has published numerous research papers and written a number of book chapters on sports medicine and shoulder problems. He has lectured extensively. Email: desbok@iinet.net.au
Associate Professor Graham Gumley MB BS(Hons Syd), FRACS FRCSEd. (Orth), FAOrthA
Associate Professor Gumley is Head of the Hand Surgery unit. He has a conjoint appointment as Assoc Professor at UNSW. He is also Director of Hand Surgery at South West Sydney Area Health Service and a hand surgeon at Sydney Adventist Hospital and Sydney Hospital. He did fellowship training at the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital in Edinburgh, Massachusetts General Hospital and St Vincent’s in Melbourne. He is involved in an outreach program in Camdodia where he was the Director of the Sihanouk Hospital Centre of HOPE. He is a former Vice President for HOPE Health Programs. He has published 20 papers and book chapters and is an examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Email: gggumley@bigpond.com
Associate Professor James Sullivan MB BS, FRACS, FAOrthA
Associate Professor Sullivan is head of the Arthroplasty Department. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1980 and completed an orthopaedic training program in Sydney before doing a Fellowship in adult joint reconstruction at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is past president of the Asia Pacific Arthroplasty Society and is involved in teaching in Asia. His specialties are arthroplasty and hip and knee surgery. Email: jimsul@bigpond.net.au
Associate Professor Craig Waller MB BS, FRACS, FRCS (Edin)
Associate Professor Craig Waller is Head of the Department of Sports Medicine and Surgery. He won the graduate prize in surgery and the University Medal at the University of NSW and has a particular interest in minimally invasive joint replacement, computer assisted navigational surgery, sports surgery, knee ligament reconstruction and cartilage and meniscus replacement. He is a Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association and a founding member of the Asia Pacific Arthroplasty Association. cswaller@waller.net.au
Associate Professor Paul Bannon MB BS, FRACS, PhD
Associate Professor Bannon is Head of the Cardio-thoracic Department. He is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney and Chairman of the Baird Institute for Heart and Lung Surgical Research in Sydney as well as Chairman of the Scientific Committee at the Baird Institute. He has a strong involvement in advanced surgical training and is the current Specialty Editor of the ANZ Journal of Surgery and the Surgical Editor of Heart, Lung and Circulation Journal. He is a Member of the Australian Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery, a Founding Member of the Australian Vascular Biology Society and a member of the International Society of Heart Research. Email: pgbannon@gmail.com
Professor Paul Fagan MB BS, FRACS, FRCS
Professor Paul Fagan is the academic Head of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck (OHN) Surgery. He is a conjoint professor at the University of New South Wales and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Medicine at UNSW in 1994. Professor Fagan has been a Visiting Medical Officer at St Vincents Hospital since 1974 where he established the Microsurgical Skills Laboratory. He is on many editorial boards including the Journal of Otolaryngological Society of Australia, Skull Base: An inter-disciplinary approach, Otology and Neurotology, Medicine Today, Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology. He has published over 160 papers and has two major research projects: The Freedom Speech Processor for N24 series Cochlear implants and the Quality of Life in acoustic tumour patients who have had no treatment. Email: pfagan@pfagan.com.au
Associate Professor Raymond Sacks MB BCH , FCS(SA)ORL, FRACS
Associate Professor Sacks is the Clinical Head of the(Otolaryngology, Head & Neck (OHN) Surgery) Department. A rhinologist, he is an examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and is the President-elect of the Australasian Rhinologic Society. He runs the Rhinologic fellowship program in Sydney. He is a PhD thesis marker for Griffiths University in Queensland as well as for Adelaide and Flinders Universities in South Australia. He is a reviewer for both the Australian Journal of Otolaryngology and the American Journal of Rhinology and is on the International Liaison Committee for the American Rhinologic Society. Email: rsacks@commander360.com
Associate Professor Tillman Boesel BMedSc(Hons), MB BS, FANZCA
Associate Professor Boesel is Director of the Hospital Medicine program. He was educated at the University of Adelaide and subsequently trained in anaesthesia at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. He has worked as an anaesthetist since 2004 and has interests in pain management, evidence-based medicine and patient safety. His areas of research interest include the induction of chronic pain following major surgery and advanced techniques in acute pain management. Email: p_celan@bigpond.net.au
Associate Professor Celi Varol MB BS FRACS (Urology)
Assoc Professor Celi Varol MB.BS, FRACS (Urology) is the head of the Urology Department and Director of the Robotic and Laparoscopic, Minimally Invasive Cancer Therapy Unit. He completed his Urology training in Sydney and later worked in cancer centres in Switzerland and Germany. He has a special interest in minimally invasive treatment for prostate and bladder cancer and has one of the largest series of Laparoscopic prostate and bladder cancer operations in Australia. He has a special interest in minimally invasive LASER therapy for prostate disease and bladder cancer. Email: cvarol@hotmail.com
Research Team
Professor Paul M Pilowsky, BMedSci (Hons), BMBS, PhD, FAHA
Professor Pilowsky is Professor of Medical Physiology, and a Principal Research Fellow of the NH&MRC. He undertook his tertiary training in Medicine and Research at The Flinders University of South Australia. After completing an internship he became a full-time research scientist. He has been continuously funded by the National Health and Medical Research Foundation. His work is focused on how the brain regulates circulation and breathing with the objective of understanding how disordered control could cause hypertension, heart failure, stroke, SIDS and other diseases. Professor Pilowsky has been awarded over $8.5 million for his research and published more than 150 Reviews, Book Chapters and original articles. He reviews for numerous scientific journals and granting agencies and is a member of the editorial board of eight scientific journals. Email: paul.pilowsky@mq.edu.au
Professor Albert Avolio, BE, PhD (UNSW)
Professor Avolio is Professor of Biomedical Engineering. He has an international reputation in the field of cardiovascular haemodynamics with over 100 publications including a book, book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. He has extensive experience in PhD supervision. His research areas include arterial haemodynamics, cardiovascular modelling, arterial mechanics, vascular endothelial function, cardiovascular control, blood pressure measurement and biological signal processing. He has received over $3 million in research grant support and is on the assessment panel for both national and international granting bodies. He is on the editorial board of international journals of research in hypertension and reviews for over 35 international scientific journals. Email: alberto.avolio@mq.edu.au
Associate Professor Ann Goodchild BSc (Hons), PhD
Associate Professor Ann Goodchild is internationally recognised in cardiorespiratory neuroscience and is widely cited for her original discovery of the cell groups in the brain stem that maintain blood pressure. A major focus of her work is the role of intracellular second messenger systems in the central control of blood pressure. She has a strong record of supervising students who continue with careers in medicine, science and dentistry. She has been continuously funded by the NHMRC, holds significant intramural funding and has published more than 70 journal articles and reviews. Email: ann.goodchild@mq.edu.au
Professor Stuart Graham MB BS, PhD, MS, FRANZCO
Professor Graham is the Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science. He trained at the University of Sydney with a two-year clinical and research fellowship in glaucoma at the University of British Columbia. He did a Masters in Surgery at University of New South Wales and a PhD at Sydney University. His research interests are glaucoma, electrophysiology and vascular factors. He is a clinical investigator in several multi-centre international trials and supervises higher degree students. He has published over 70 papers and co-written three book chapters. He is Secretary of the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia. Email: stuart.graham@asam.mq.edu.au
Professor Rod Lane MD, MS, MBiomedE, DDU, FRCS, FRCSE, FRACS
Professor Lane is Head of Vascular Surgery Research. He is the Senior Vascular Surgeon at Royal North Shore Hospital and Dalcross Private Hospital in Sydney. Dr Lane has been involved in numerous vascular research projects over the past 25 years, with the majority focusing on novel treatments for arterial and venous disease. Dr Lane completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, and Master of Surgery degrees at University of Sydney, he then went on the complete a Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound, Master of Biomedical Engineering, and Doctor of Surgery degrees. Dr Lane has previously worked in the field of medical research and medical device development for universities, large multinational companies, and NASA. Email: rod.lane@mq.edu.au
Professor Yi Qian (Itsu Sen), BE, MSc, PhD (Tokyo)
Professor Yi Qian is a Professor in Bioinformatics. He is also a professor at the Centre for Advanced Biomedical Sciences at Waseda University, Tokyo. Prof Qian is also a visiting professor in both the Faculties of Engineering and Medicine at Shanghai Jiao-tong University (SJTU). He has over 25 years experience in computational fluid dynamics research. His current research topics are computational haemodynamics, cerebral blood flow, medical image analysis, neuroradiology, numerical cardiovascular modelling, medical devices, and artificial organs. He has published widely in bioengineering and medical science journals. He has over $2 million in research grants. Email: sen11@aoni.waseda.jp
Dr Mark Butlin BMATeng, PhD
Dr Butlin is a research associate in the field of biomedical engineering and cardiovascular haemodynamics. His research interests address in-vivo and ex-vivo work in the field of large artery stiffness and include cross-discipline projects investigating end-organ damage in different arterial beds, including the brain and the eye. Email: mark.butlin@mq.edu.au
Dr Simon McMullan BSc (Hons), PhD
Dr McMullan is an electrophysiologist with a background in pain processing. He originally trained in Bristol, UK. He is interested in the integration of the driving forces that determine sympathetic output at the single cell level. Email: simon.mcmullan@mq.edu.au
Dr Qi-Jian Sun BSc (Hons), PhD
Dr Sun is an electrophysiologist who investigates the central regulation of respiratory neurons at the cellular level. Email: qigian.sun@mq.edu.au
Dr Natasha Kumar BMedSc (Hons), PhD
Dr Kumar is a molecular biologist and anatomist whose work investigates the neurochemical diversity of cardiorespiratory neurons. She is interested in the impact of differential calcium signalling profiles in cardiovascular neurons in the brain. Email: natasha.kumar@vc.mq.edu.au