FACULTY

International Faculty

Rosalind Given-Wilson (MD)

Consultant Radiologist and Medical Director
St Georges Hospital, London, UK

Rosalind Given-Wilson, MD is a Consultant breast radiologist at St Georges Hospital, a major UK teaching Hospital in London. She runs the St Georges National breast screening training centre providing post graduate training and CPD for staff from all disciplines within the screening program. In 2008 she held the Royal College of Radiologists Breast imaging Professorship and this involved lecturing nationally and internationally on breast imaging.

She set up the South West London breast screening service in 1991 and was Director for 10 years, and is now Medical Director of the Hospital. She has research interests in CAD and decision making having published over 100 papers and abstracts. She is involved with national QA of breast screening sitting on the UK government advisory committee on breast cancer screening.

Elizabeth Morris (MD)

Director, Breast MRI and Breast Imaging Research
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA

Elizabeth Morris, MD is Director, Breast MRI at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and is an integral part of the Breast Disease Management Team. She is also Professor of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College. Elizabeth also trains and supervises residents and breast fellows in breast-image interpretation as well as in interventional breast procedures. She is a Fellow of the Society of Breast Imaging and the American College of Radiology (ACR). Elizabeth is Chair of the ACR MRI BI-RADS Lexicon committee and Co-Chair, ACR Breast MRI Accreditation committee.

Australian Faculty

John Hopper (AM)

Professor & Director (Research), Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology

The University of Melbourne, Victoria

John Hopper, AM is one of nine inaugural Australian Fellows awarded by NHMRC in 2007. He is a Professorial Fellow with a PhD in Mathematical Statistics, and is currently Director (Research) of the Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health at The University of Melbourne. He has published nearly 400 papers, specialising in the statistical methodology and its application for analysing twin and family data, and addressing the genetic and environmental aetiology of diseases and health. He is principal or co-investigator on a number of case-control-family studies across a range of diseases and conditions, particularly breast cancer and colorectal cancer (both funded by the National Institutes of Health (USA)), prostate cancer, melanoma, childhood cancer and asthma. He is a co-investigator on several cohort studies, including Health 2020 and long term follow-up of the 1968 Tasmanian Asthma Study. Professor Hopper has been Director of the Australian Twin Registry since 1990.

Sunil R Lakhani

Head, Molecular & Cellular Pathology School of Medicine

The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland

FRCPath, FRCPA is Head of the Breast Group at the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR) and Honorary Principal Research Fellow at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR). He is Visiting Breast Pathologist at The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. His current research interests include lobular carcinoma and its variants, genomic profiles on normal breast epithelial and stem cells, molecular genetics of tumours with a basal phenotype and molecular pathology of familial breast cancers.

Christobel Saunders (MD)

Deputy Head of School of Surgery

The University of Western Australia, Western Australia

Christobel Saunders, MD trained in the United Kingdom, and was a Consultant Surgeon and Senior Lecturer at University College London Hospitals before moving to Western Australia in 2000. Since November 2002 she has been Professor of Surgical Oncology at the School of Surgery and Pathology, University of Western Australia. Her clinical interests are in the diagnosis and management of breast cancer and melanoma. She is Sub-Dean at the University of Western Australia, Faculty of Medicine.

Christobel was the recipient of the 2009 NBCF Pink Ribbon Award for research which includes endogenous and exogenous hormonal risk factors, familial aspects of breast cancer, survivorship issues including fertility and menopause, psychosocial research, minimally invasive treatments and new diagnostic modalities.

Associate Professor Nehmat Houssami

MB BS (Hons), MPH, M Ed, FAFPHM (RACP), FASBP, PhD

University of Sydney

Assoc/Prof Houssami is a breast clinician, and a medical epidemiologist/public health physician. She undertook medical training at the Sydney Medical School, and has practiced in dedicated breast screening and diagnostic services since 1990. She is Principal Research Fellow with the Screening & Test Evaluation Program, University of Sydney, and a consultant clinician at the Royal Hospital for Women.

The majority of her post-doctoral research has examined breast imaging (including MRI), image-guided intervention, and the impact of testing on clinical outcomes. She has experience in evaluating new technologies and in complex systematic reviews. She is the lead investigator in several international collaborations including the Breast Cancer Survivors’ Screening Study, meta-analysis of the impact of surgical margins on local relapse, MRI in monitoring response to therapy, and evaluation of the evidence on HER2 discordance between primary breast cancer and its metastasis. She has over 90 peer-reviewed publications, and is Speciality Editor (Imaging, screening and early diagnosis) with The Breast.