Christopher O’Brien

CHRISTOPHER J. O’BRIEN, AM, MB, BS, MS, MD, FRACS

Professor Chris O'Brien is Director of the Sydney Cancer Centre based at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the University of Sydney. He is Professor of Surgery at the University of Sydney, Director of the Sydney Head and Neck Cancer Institute, and Director of Cancer Services for the Sydney South West Area Health Service.

Professor O'Brien has established an internationally recognised fellowship program and a basic research program in collaboration with the University of Sydney looking particularly at the role of HPV in head and neck cancers and the molecular genetics of salivary gland tumours.

Professor O'Brien has published 16 book chapters, over 100 peer reviewed scientific papers and produced numerous teaching videotapes. He founded the Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Society in 1998 and was President of that Society in 2004. He has visited many countries as an invited lecturer and has given numerous named lectures including the Hayes Martin Lecture (2004), the Eugene Myers International Lecture (2005) and the Jatin Shah Lecture (2006). In 2007 he will deliver the Semon Lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine, London. On Australia Day 2005, Professor O'Brien was honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "services to medicine, particularly in the field of head and neck oncology as a clinical researcher and teacher".