Diana Learoyd
Associate Professor
Endocrinology
The University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
A/Prof Diana Learoyd is a clinical academic Endocrinologist (NSPH and RNSH) and Associate Professor at Sydney Medical School. Diana trained at RNSH and spent a year at Kings College Hospital in London in 1991. She completed a PhD in the Kolling Institute in 1999 in the genetics of thyroid cancer, and of MEN2 and set up a thyroid cancer clinical database at RNSH with a NSWCI grant. She had a major role in the TKI clinical trials run at RNSH, for both differentiated and medullary thyroid cancer (DTC and MTC) patients. Diana did help run the endocrine tumour MDT, at Royal North Shore Hospital in collaboration with the Department of Endocrine Surgery.
Research Interest
She has a busy clinical practice with a special interest in thyroid disease of all types but she does see all types of general endocrinology cases at NCI, including patients with endocrine disorders in pregnancy.
Publications
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Is there a role for an ultrasensitive thyroglobulin assay in patients with serum antithyroglobulin antibodies? A large (Australian) cohort study in differentiated thyroid cancer.
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Mutation is Associated with Decreased Disease-Free Survival in Papillary Thyroid Cancer.
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An International Multi-Institutional Validation of Age 55 Years as a Cutoff for Risk Stratification in the AJCC/UICC Staging System for Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.
