Meet our panel of medical specialists

Research Review Australia works with over 70 local medical specialists to select and advise on the most important research from around the world. They advise on what really matters, what impact it has on local healthcare and what we need to do in our daily practice to accomodate new skills and knowledge. Select a category below to see more about each of our expert advisors.

Associate Professor Pascale Guitera

Associate Professor Pascale Guitera

Associate Professor Pascale Guitera is currently Director of the Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre (SMDC) and academic dermatologist at the Melanoma Institute Australia (MIA) with a position of A/Professor at the University of Sydney. She has done her dermatology fellowship in Saint Louis hospital in Paris. She was awarded the highest distinction for her PhD at the Curie Institute and SMDC on the application of instrumental techniques for the diagnosis of skin tumours. She relocated in Sydney since 2005, and she has achieved global recognition as one of the top 10 researchers of in vivo confocal microscopy (RCM). Dr Guitera was awarded the 2013 Wildfire Premier’s award by the Cancer Institute NSW for outstanding research. She organizes courses in imagery for the diagnosis of skin cancer on a yearly basis... read more »

Associate Professor Schaider

Associate Professor Schaider

Associate Professor Schaider is currently Principal Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. He was trained as an academic dermatologist at the Medical University of Graz, Austria and The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia with over 20 years of experience in the field of clinical and academic research. He relocated to Brisbane in 2013. Dr Schaider is an international recognized expert in the field of melanocytic lesions. He has a strong focus on translational research with emphasis on cancer biology specifically melanoma biology, drug resistance and naevus research. His lab recently identified a new phenotype of stress induced multi-drug tolerant cancer cells in melanoma... read more »

Dr Megan Lyle

Dr Megan Lyle

Dr Megan Lyle is a medical oncologist at the Liz Plummer Cancer Centre (Cairns Hospital) with a particular interest in melanoma. She previously completed a clinical research fellowship at Melanoma Institute Australia in Sydney. Megan is currently completing a Masters of Philosophy (Medicine) higher research degree through the University of Sydney undertaking research in to the molecular profile of melanoma and patterns of response to PD-1 antibody immunotherapy... read more »