Miss Anita Skandarajah is a Breast and Endocrine Surgeon and Senior Lecturer. Having completed post-fellowship training at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia, Hopital La Timone, France and Hammmersmith Hospital, UK, she was appointed at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The Peter Mac Callum Cancer Centre and The Royal Women's Hospital in 2009.
She now is Deputy Director of General Surgery at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and Consultant Breast and Endocrine Surgeon at the Peter Mac Callum Cancer Centre. She is an examiner for the Court in General Surgery for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. She supervises postgraduate research students and participates in surgical education at The University of Melbourne. Her main research interests are tailored treatments in early breast cancer, prevention in patients at high risk breast and endocrine malignancies and emergency general surgery.
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A systematic review of risk-reducing cancer surgery outcomes for hereditary cancer syndromes
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Campbell Penfold Prize
RACS Foundation Scholarship
Victor Hurley Fund
Violet Edith Reid
FRACS - Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Credentials
Positions
Senior Lecturer
Surgery - Royal Melbourne Hospital
Member
Society of Surgical Oncology
Internation Endocrine Surgeons Association
International Endocrine Surgeons Association
Member
Breastsurg ANZ
Member
Australian Endocrine Surgeons
General Surgeon
General Surgeons Australia
Breast Surgeon
ANZ Breast Cancer Trials Group
Fellow
RACS
Education
Doctor of Medicine
University of Melbourne
Postgraduate Diploma of Surgical Anatomy
University of Melbourne
MBBS
University of Melbourne