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AUSTRALIA (elected in 2012 – mandate expires in 2016)
James F. BISHOP, AO – MD, MMed, MB BS, FRACP, FRCPA
AUSTRALIA
ADDRESS: Executive Director
Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre
766 Elizabeth Street
PO Box 2148
Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC 3050, Australia
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: jim.bisho[email protected].au
EDUCATION
YEAR
INSTITUTION
QUALIFICATION
1972
1979
1979
1989
1999
University of Melbourne
Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Royal College of Pathologists of Australia
University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
MBBS
FRACP
FRCPA
M.D.
MMed
PRINCIPAL POSITIONS HELD
YEAR
POSITION AND PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT
2011 – present
2011 – present
2009 – 2011
2011
2011
2003 – 2011
2003 – 2009
2003 – 2009
1995 – 2003
1995 – 2003
1995 – present
1990 – 1995
Professor of Cancer Medicine, The University of Melbourne
Executive Director, The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre
Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Ageing, Australian
Government
National Director of Human Quarantine, Australian Government
Director, Office of Health Protection, Department of Health and Ageing,
Canberra
Honorary Medical Oncologist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
Chief Cancer Officer for New South Wales
CEO, Cancer Institute NSW
Director, Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal Prince Alfred and Concord
Hospitals
Clinical Director, Cancer Services, Central Sydney Area Health Service
Professor of Medicine, The University of Sydney
Director, Division of Haematology and Medical Oncology, Peter
MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cancer chemotherapy; clinical trials; cancer epidemiology; cancer health services and
economics; health policy.

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AUSTRIA (elected in 2009 – mandate expires in 2013)
Giulio SUPERTI-FURGA, Ph.D.
AUSTRIA
ADDRESS:
Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM)
of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Lazarettgasse 19
1090 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
EDUCATION
YEAR
INSTITUTION
QUALIFICATION
1990
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Ph.D.
PRINCIPAL POSITIONS HELD
YEAR
POSITION AND PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT
Aug.–Dec. 1990
02.1991 –
12.1992
1993 – 1994
1995 – 2004
2000 – 2004
2005 –
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna,
Austria (Head: Meinrad Busslinger)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Differentiation Programme, European Molecular
Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany (Head: Giulio Draetta)
Staff Scientist, Differentiation Programme, European Molecular Biology
Laboratory (EMBL) in association to Sara A. Courtneidge laboratory
Team Leader (1995), Visiting Team Leader (2001), Differentiation Cell
Regulation Programme/Developmental Biology Programme, European
Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Founder, Scientific Director (2000), Vice President Biology (2001), Senior
Vice President Biology and Head of Cellzome Heidelberg (2003)
Scientific Director, Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) of the Austrian
Academy of Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Molecular medicine.

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BELGIUM (elected in 2012 – mandate expires in 2016)
Christos SOTIRIOU, Ph.D.
BELGIUM
ADDRESS: Jules Bordet Institute
Rue Herger-Bordet, 1
1000 Brussels
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
EDUCATION
YEAR
INSTITUTION
QUALIFICATION
1993
1999
2004
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels
ULB
ULB
M.D., Medicine and
Surgery
Postgraduate diploma in
Internal Medicine /
Medical Oncology
Ph.D. in Genomics
PRINCIPAL POSITIONS HELD
YEAR
POSITION AND PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT
03/2010–present
10/2005–present
10/2001–09/2005
10/1999–09/2001
10/1997–09/1999
10/1996–09/1997
10/1994–09/1996
10/1993–09/1994
Head of the Breast Cancer Translational Research Laboratory JC Heuson,
Faculty of Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels,
Belgium
“Chercheur qualifié” FNRS (National Foundation for Scientific Research)
(Tenured position).
Associate Professor, Medical Oncology Unit, Jules Bordet Institute,
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Assistant Professor, Medical Oncology Unit, Jules Bordet Institute,
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute,
Division of Clinical Sciences, Microarray facility, Bethesda, MD, USA
Research fellow of the National Foundation for Scientific Research,
Department of Oncology, and Laboratory of Endocrinology, Bone
Metabolism and Breast Oncology, Jules Bordet Institute, Université
Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Postgraduate in Internal Medicine, Department of Oncology, Jules Bordet
Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Postgraduate in Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,
Etterbeek-Ixelles Center Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Postgraduate in Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and
Oncology, Jules Bordet Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Translational cancer research; breast cancer; clinical cancer biomarkers.

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CANADA (elected in 2009 – mandate expires in 2013)
Richard GALLAGHER, B.Sc.
CANADA
ADDRESS:
BC Cancer Research Centre
Cancer Control Research
675 West 10th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1L3, Canada
Tel.: [phone]
Email: rgallaghe[email protected]a
EDUCATION
YEAR
INSTITUTION
QUALIFICATION
1967
1973
1992
University of British Columbia
Western Washington University
American College of Epidemiology
B.Sc. – Biological science
M.A. – Medical sociology
FACE (Fellow)
PRINCIPAL POSITIONS HELD
YEAR
POSITION AND PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT
1980 – 1987
1987 – 1996
1996 – 2011
2011 –
1996 –
1995 –
Epidemiologist, Epidemiology, BC Cancer Agency
Head, Epidemiology Section, Division of Epidemiology and Cancer
Prevention, BC Cancer Agency
Head, Cancer Control Research Program, BC Cancer Agency
Scientist Emeritus, BC Cancer Research Centre
Clinical Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of
British Columbia (UBC)
Associate Faculty, Departments of Dermatology and Skin Sciences, and
Department of Urologic Sciences, University of BC
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Environmental and molecular epidemiology, melanoma, and non-melanocytic skin cancers.

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DENMARK (elected in 2010 – mandate expires in 2014)
Mads MELBYE, M.D., Ph.D.
DENMARK
ADDRESS:
Director, Division of National Health Surveillance and Research
Statens Serum Institut
2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [email protected]k
EDUCATION
YEAR
INSTITUTION
QUALIFICATION
1984
1988
University of Aarhus, Denmark
University of Aarhus, Denmark
M.D. – Medicine
DMSc (Ph.D.) –
Epidemiology
PRINCIPAL POSITIONS HELD
YEAR
POSITION AND PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT
1984-85
1985-86
1986-88
1988-91
1991-92
1992-
1998-
2004-12
2012-
Research Fellow, The Institute of Cancer Research, Aarhus, Denmark
Visiting Scientist, Environmental Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer
Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Intern and Resident in Medicine, University Hospital, Aarhus and
Copenhagen
Senior Investigator, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, The Danish Cancer
Registry, Copenhagen, Denmark
State Epidemiologist, Department of Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institut,
Copenhagen
Professor and Head, Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum
Institut, Copenhagen
Foreign Adjunct Professor, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Director, Division of Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institut
Director, Division of National Health Surveillance and Research
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Epidemiology.