Professor Kerry Atkinson Seminar
Kerry Atkinson graduated in medicine from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London (UK). He underwent postgraduate training in oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. He was Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center /University of Washington in Seattle, USA working on the allogeneic bone marrow transplantation program. He joined the staff of St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia and spent 15 years helping develop the clinical and experimental bone marrow transplant program there. He served as President of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand, founded the Australasian BMT Cooperative Study Group and the Australian BMT Recipient Data Registry. From 1996-2003 he spent seven years in the USA cellular biotechnology industry, serving as Director of Clinical Transplantation at Systemix Inc, Palo and subsequently as Director of Cell and Gene Therapy for the American Red Cross. Prior to accepting the position of Director of Allogeneic Stem Cell Therapies at the Mater Hospital, Brisbane, he was Medical Director/Vice-President of Clinical Affairs at Osiris Therapeutics, Inc., Baltimore, USA and responsible for the company's clinical trial development program utilizing Universal Donor Mesenchymal Stem Cells in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, repair of infarcted myocardium and meniscal regeneration. He has published 201 papers in the marrow transplant and stem cell literature, published "The BMT Data Book" (Cambridge University Press) and is the editor of the textbook "Clinical Bone Marrow and Blood Stem Cell Transplantation" also published by Cambridge University Press. He is a member of the NHMRC Cell Therapy Advisory Committee, a Member of the Advisory Committee of the Stem Cell Research Institute, National Health Research Institutes Taiwan, a Fellow of the Royal College of Medicine (UK), a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medicine, a Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland and an Adjunct Professor at the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ. He has been appointed to the NHMRC Academy from 2010.
Where:
UQCCR Main Auditorium, Level 2 (Ground Floor)
When:
Starts: Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 4:30 PM
Ends: Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 4:30 PM
