Professor David Mackey
Professor David Mackey is a world leader in the translation of genetic eye disease research into treatment. Gene discovery allows accurate diagnosis, predictive testing and genetically guided treatment. David has also evaluated the ethics and cost effectiveness of gene based testing. He is President of the International Society of Genetic Eye Disease and Retinoblastoma; a […]
Professor Barry Marshall
Professor Barry Marshall is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, challenging decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were […]
Professor Stephen Stick
Professor Stick is Head, Department of Respiratory Medicine at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Research Strategy Leader at the Telethon Kids Institute and Clinical Professor, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, UWA. He has been a NHMRC Practitioner Fellow since 2000 and is acknowledged as a leader in early childhood lung diseases. His research interests […]
Professor Steve Webb
Professor Steve Webb graduated from medicine at the University of Western Australia in 1987 and trained as an adult intensive care physician with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. His research training comprises a PhD from Imperial College and a Masters of Public Health from the University of Western Australia. He has been an ICU […]
Professor Fiona Wood
Winthrop Professor Fiona Wood is a Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon specialising in the field of burn care, trauma and scar reconstruction. As Director of the WA Burns Service of Western Australia she is consultant at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children and Fiona Stanley Hospital. As director of burns research, she leads an interdisciplinary team with […]