Richard Kefford

Biography

 Professor Richard Kefford (RK) was Founding Director of the Department of Medical Oncology at Westmead Hospital in 1986, the Familial Cancer Service at Westmead in 1992 and the Westmead Institute for Cancer Research (WICR) in 1996. WICR was one of three institutes that united to form the Westmead Millennium Institute in 1999, and RK was founding Deputy Director 1999-2013. He was a founding Member of Melanoma Institute Australia and Co-Director of Research since its inception. He was University of Sydney Professor of Medicine at Westmead Hospital 1998-2013. Since 2014, as Head of Clinical Medicine, he is playing a leading role in the design of the new global MD program at Macquarie University

Research Interest

 Professor Kefford is a medical oncologist and clinico-laboratory investigator with principal interest in translational research in improving the medical management of melanoma, a disease that kills approximately 1800 Australians annually and takes a disproportionately high toll in young adults.