Specialties
- Cancer
Areas of Interest
- Melanoma
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), Locoregional therapies
- Merkel Cell Carcinoma
Mater Hospital, North Sydney, NSW
The Poche Centre, Cammeraygal Land
40 Rocklands Road Wollstonecraft NSW 2065
Biography
A/Prof. Dr. Alexander van Akkooi, MSc, MD, PhD, FRACS strives to deliver state of the art, top-class care. He is recognized as a world-leading expert surgical oncologist in the treatment of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers.
He studied medicine at the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where he gained his MD title in 2008. During his surgical specialty training (2009-2014), he was awarded his PhD cum laude in 2011.From 2015 – 2021 he was a staff consultant surgical oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (NKI) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he chaired the Melanoma and Skin Cancer Centre.
He is a Fellow to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) within the Specialty of General Surgery within a defined scope of practice of Cutaneous Oncology.
He is a clinical academic and his research work focuses on staging and treatment of melanoma, sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), locoregional therapies, adjuvant and neo-adjuvant strategies. He is also a Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC) expert.
