2020 SPEAKERS
Below are confirmed speakers for the 2020 BreastScreen Australia Conference, updates will be posted here as additional plenary presenters are confirmed.
Dr David Clouston
Dr David Clouston is an Anatomical Pathologist at Tissupath, which is a boutique pathology practice in Melbourne which specialises in breast pathology.
David obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) with First Class Honours from the University of Queensland and was awarded the University Medal. After training in Anatomical Pathology in Brisbane and Sydney, he was awarded his Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists, Australia in 1993. He subsequently completed a PhD in transcription factors in developmental biology at the University of Melbourne before resuming diagnostic surgical pathology at various public and private Anatomical Pathology practices in Melbourne, including the Royal Melbourne Hospital, The Alfred Hospital and Melbourne Pathology.
He has a particular interest in tumour diagnosis and has presented locally on topics in breast pathology and has over 40 publications and has 4 book chapters.
Solveig Hofvind
Head of BreastScreen Norway and professor in radiography at Oslo Metropolitan University. Hofvind is radiographer by training and has her master from the Norwegian school of sport sciences. After 13 years work at Akershus University hospital, where she was the pioneer in establishing a breast clinic, she started working at the Cancer Registry of Norway. The Cancer Registry is responsible for the administration and quality assurance of the screening program. She finished her PhD in 2005 (The Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program: Selected process indicators and their utilization in epidemiological research). Hofvind was guest professor at the University of Vermont, 2006-07, and 2010-11 and has a substantial network internationally. She has more than 150 peer-review publications, mainly related to epidemiological aspects of breast cancer and mammographic screening.
Professor Nehmat Houssami
Professor Ruud Pijnappel
Prof. dr. Ruud Pijnappel is a breast radiologist practicing at the Department of Radiology at the University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands and at the Dutch Expert Centre for Screening, LRCB, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
He received his medical training at the University of Amsterdam. His special interest in Breast imaging and intervention was developed during a fellowship at University of Utrecht where he received his Ph. D in 2002 on the subject of ‘The diagnosis of non-palpable breast lesions’.
Since 1996 Prof. dr. Pijnappel main clinical and research interests include breast imaging and (image-guided) intervention. Working with and teaching residents and fellow’s in a multidisciplinary breast assessment setting serves his particular interests.
He is a very well known speaker having given numerous lectures at international level.
In 2012 he was appointed as staff-radiologist at UMC Utrecht and also became a staff member at the Dutch Expert Centre for Screening (LRCB).
As of July 1, 2015, he is member of the Executive Board of the LRCB. In October 2015 he was appointed Professor of Breast Radiology at Utrecht University.
He is secretary general and board member of several national and international workgroups engaged in research into the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. In addition to the Radiological Society of the Netherlands, Prof. dr. Pijnappel is a member of the European Society of Radiology (ESR), the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) and the European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI).
Dr Donna Taylor
Donna Taylor is a consultant radiologist at BreastScreen WA and Royal Perth Hospital in Perth, Western Australia. She has worked for 25 years as a clinical radiologist, subspecialising in the diagnosis and treatment of breast diseases both in population-based mammographic screening (BreastScreen Western Australia), MRI screening of women at high risk for breast cancer (RPH) and as a member of the multidisciplinary breast team at Royal Perth Hospital.
In 2011, in collaboration with Dr Anita Bourke from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Donna initiated the formation of the WA ROLLIS (Radioguided Occult Lesion Localisation using Iodine 125 Seeds) Investigators Group, aiming to reduce re-excision rates for women undergoing breast conserving surgery for breast cancer.
In 2013, Donna’s passion for research was rewarded with a Clinician Research Fellowship by the Medical Research Foundation of RPH. This three year fellowship has enabled her to have protected academic time to work on the many collaborative inter-hospital and inter-state projects in which she is involved.
Donna strives to stay at the forefront of new technology, and in 2013 RPH became the first site in WA to introduce contrast enhanced spectral mammography for the local staging of breast cancer largely due to the research work Donna had been undertaking.
Donna is a member of the Breast Interest Group, Radiation Oncology and Clinical Radiology Research Committees of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia, Australian and New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group, Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine, American Roentgen Ray Society and is on the Executive of the Australasian Society for Breast Diseases. Donna is currently an Associate Editor for The Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology and was the Lee Rogers Fellow in Radiology Journalism for 2015
Dr Matthew Wallis
Dr Matthew G Wallis MB ChB FRCR was Director of the Warwickshire Solihull and Coventry Breast Screening Service for 19 years. At various times he has been Clinical Director for Radiology and Clinical Support Services and for 12 years as Quality Assurance Radiologist for the West Midlands NHSBSP.
Dr Wallis moved to Cambridge in November 2007. He was President of EUSOBI from 2008-2010.
His major research interests have been in optimising diagnosis and care of breast disease, developing methods to monitor and audit screening performance. This work has informed standard setting in image quality, radiology and surgery across the world. He has a long-standing interest in DCIS and is the Chief Investigator of Low risk DCIS trial.
Lucy Cartwright
Lucy Cartwright is an ACPSEM certified Radiology Medical Physics Specialist working at Westmead Hospital, NSW, and oversees the medical physics service for BreastScreen NSW. She has been involved in the development of BreastScreen and RANZCR mammography QC programs, including the development of tomosynthesis QC guidelines for Australia. She currently serves on the ACPSEM board of directors, is the course co-ordinator for the ACPSEM Mammography Testing Certification course, and is on the Radiology Specialty Group Executive Committee.