Bruce Mann (oncologist)

Bruce Mann is a surgical oncologist and Director of Breast Cancer Services at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, the largest specialist women's care hospital in Australia..[1] A former president of COSA (the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia, the top national professional association for cancer care),[2] he served previously as Director of Cancer Services and Infectious Medicine for the Melbourne Health Cancer Service and is Director of the award-winning Melbourne Health Combined Breast Service and Director of Advanced Surgical Training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.[3]

Mann holds a professorship in Surgery at the University of Melbourne and has published extensively in leading oncology journals, with growing international impact on academic debate and research in his field.[4] He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and a member of the Australian Medical Association, the Society of Surgical Oncology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the ANZ Breast Cancer Trials Group. He also serves as a Councilor of the International Gastric Cancer Association. His private practice is at Parkville Surgery.[5]

Mann attended medical school at the University of Melbourne and earned a PhD in Cancer Genetics in 1995. His surgical training was at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where he specialized in surgical oncology and especially the treatment of breast cancer. In his practice, Professor Mann specializes in breast cancer and breast surgery, melanoma surgery, stomach cancer (gastric cancer) surgery, and the surgical treatment of sarcoma (soft tissue tumors). He is a consultant surgeon at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne,[6] and operates at Melbourne Private Hospital and Frances Perry Private Hospital.[7] He is registered with the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria (Australia).

References

  1. ↑ See The Women's Breast Service page.
  2. ↑ See COSA Committees, published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology, Vol. 8, Issue Supplement S3: also COSA "About Us"
  3. ↑ The Combined Breast Service won the prestigious Premier's Award for "Excellence for improving cancer care in Victoria" under Mann's direction in 2008. For his notable work on coordinated care, see, for example, his invited talk on integrated care to the Radiation Oncology Symposium 2011, at 'Beyond Bricks and Mortar - Building Quality Clinical Cancer Services'
  4. ↑ See, for example, commentary on his research in the UK-based Oncology Times and the U.S.-based Journal of Clinical Oncology; also his invited presentations at major international conferences, such as the 2012 1st Asia-Pacific Breast Cancer Summit in Singapore. Selected publications are listed on Melbourne University "expert" webpage. For his public activities, see also local news reports on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
  5. ↑ See bio at Parkville Surgery
  6. ↑ See Peter Mac Cancer Surgery Program and Services
  7. ↑ Frances Perry House, "Specialists" page.

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