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Professor John Thompson
Professor John Thompson, MBBS, BSc(Med), MD, FRACS, FACS is the Executive Director of the Melanoma Institute Australia and Professor of Melanoma and Surgical Oncology of the University of Sydney. He is author of over 400 peer-reviewed articles and holds positions on the editorial boards of several international journals. He is the immediate past President of the International Sentinel Node Society, Chairman of the Australian and New Zealand Melanoma Trials Group, and Chairman of the NSW Melanoma Network. He is also a member of the Melanoma Staging Committee of the American Joint Committee on Cancer. His principal current research interests are in the fields of lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy for melanoma, and regional chemotherapy techniques for limb tumours which cannot be treated surgically.
Professor John Thompson, MBBS, BSc(Med), MD, FRACS, FACS is the Executive Director of the Melanoma Institute Australia and Professor of Melanoma and Surgical Oncology of the University of Sydney. He is author of over 400 peer-reviewed articles and holds positions on the editorial boards of several international journals. He is the immediate past President of the International Sentinel Node Society, Chairman of the Australian and New Zealand Melanoma Trials Group, and Chairman of the NSW Melanoma Network. He is also a member of the Melanoma Staging Committee of the American Joint Committee on Cancer. His principal current research interests are in the fields of lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy for melanoma, and regional chemotherapy techniques for limb tumours which cannot be treated surgically.