MPCCC’s Executive Committee includes an internationally respected team of multi-disciplinary cancer and blood disease specialists who are committed to the MPCCC vision and dedicated to delivering its programs.

Members of the MPCCC Cancer and Blood Diseases Theme Executive include:

Eva Segelov

Professor Eva Segelov
Clinical Director Cancer and Blood Diseases Theme
Professor Director of Oncology, Monash Health and Monash University

John Zalcberg

Professor John Zalcberg
Cancer and Blood Diseases Theme Representative
Professor of Cancer Research, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Gail Risbridger

Professor Gail Risbridger
Head, Prostate Cancer Lab, Monash University

Melissa Southy

Professor Melissa Southey
Research Director, Monash Partners Comprehensive Cancer Consortium (MPCCC); Chair of Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health; Director, Biobanking Victoria, Monash University.

Professor Jeremy Millar
Director of Radiation Oncology, The Alfred

Associate Professor Ron Firestein
Head, Centre for Cancer Research, Hudson Institute of Medical Research

Harshal Nandurkar

Professor Harshal Nandurkar
Head, Australian Centre of Blood Diseases, The Alfred and Monash University

David Kissane

Professor David Kissane
Head, Department of Psychiatry, Monash University and Monash Health

Mark Shackleton

Professor Mark Shackleton
Professor Director of Oncology, The Alfred and Monash University

Dr Daniel Croagh
Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon, Monash Health

Gary Richardson

Associate Professor Gary Richardson
Head, Szalmuk Family Department of Medical Oncology, Cabrini

Zee Wan Wong

Associate Professor Zee Wan Wong
Joint Clinical Director, SMICS; Head of Oncology, Peninsula Health; Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Monash University; Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne Medical School, Department of Rural Health

Ian Davis

Professor Ian Davis
Head, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University

Professor Stephen Opat
Director of Haematology, Monash Health

Dr Olivia Cook
Research Fellow, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University