Alan Coates
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27 June 1943 Kew, Victoria, Australia |
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| Residence | Sydney | ||
| Nationality | Australian | ||
| Fields | Clinical Oncology | ||
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University of Sydney Garvan Institute Cancer Council Australia |
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| Alma mater | University of Melbourne | ||
| Notable awards | Order of Australia | ||
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 Interview on targeted breast cancer treatment, Milan Breast Cancer Conference (2008) |
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Discussing screening for prostate cancer on Insight (2010) |
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"The evolution of the St. Gallen consensus process for the optimal treatment of women with breast cancer": Opening address at the St. Gallen Breast Cancer Conference (2015) |
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"St Mary's Cathedral Rescue" Nine News Sydney (24 April 2015) via YouTube |
Alan Stuart Coates AM FRACP (born 27 June 1943) is an Australian professor of clinical oncology, medical researcher and administrator. He was the inaugural CEO of the Cancer Council Australia (1998 – 2006), former president of the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia (COSA), and co-chair of the St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference. He was also the first non-American to be elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Coates graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1966 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree and trained in internal medicine and immunology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research in Australia, then at the Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center in the United States. He returned to Australia in 1978 and for 25 years was a medical oncologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. In 1985, he was appointed Associate Professor in Cancer Medicine in the University of Sydney. Since 1998 he has been a Clinical Professor at that university in the School of Public Health. He is an accredited statistician (AStat) with the Statistical Society of Australia and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP).
Professor Coates' research specialises in melanoma, breast cancer and tumour immunology. He is a visiting scientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Kinghorn Cancer Centre in Sydney. His collaborations with international organisations in clinical trials include the European Institute of Oncology, Milan, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, USA.
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