Cabrini Scientific Advisory Committee

Members

Professor Mark Shackleton is the Director of Oncology at Alfred Health, a Professor of Oncology at Monash University, a Victorian Cancer Agency Clinical Research Fellow and Chair of Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials Ltd. After training in medical oncology and at the Ludwig Institute in Melbourne, he undertook PhD studies at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and post-doctoral work at the University of Michigan, USA. He has received several major prizes for his research: the 2006 Victorian Premier’s Award for Medical Research, a 2010 NHMRC Achievement Award, a 2011 Pfizer Australia Fellowship and a 2016 Victorian Cancer Agency Clinical Research Fellowship. In 2012, he was awarded the Australian Science Minister’s Prize for Life Scientist of the Year.

Professor Karen Walker-Bone was recently appointed Head of the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health at Monash University, Melbourne. She is a clinically-qualified Professor of Occupational Rheumatology who has immigrated from the UK where she directed a National Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work. She is an MRC Investigator, holds grants from a range of funders and has published more than 220 outputs including 140 peer-reviewed journal articles, reviews, edited one book, 18 book chapters and 40 government reports. The focus of her research is to maintain health in the workplace and promote good work for people with long-term health conditions.