Richard A. ScolyerProfessor

Professor Richard Scolyer BMedSci, MBBS, MD FRCPA FRCPath is Senior Staff Specialist, Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney; Consultant Pathologist and Co- Medical Director, Melanoma Institute Australia; and Clinical Professor, The University of Sydney. He provides a clinical consultation service for the diagnosis of difficult pigmented lesions and receives more 2000 cases for opinion from Australasia and beyond annually. Richard effectively integrates his clinical practice with leading an award winning translational melanoma research laboratory. His record includes co-authoring more than 550 publications including in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Nature, Cell, Nature Genetics, Lancet Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute and Cancer Discovery with >30,000 citations. Richard has presented on more than 350 occasions at conferences throughout the world. He received a NSW Premier's Award for Outstanding Cancer Research in 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018, Thomson Reuters 2015 Citation Award in the Clinical Medicine category and the 2018 William O. Russell/Joanne Vandenberge Hill Award for Lifetime Achievement in Anatomical Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Research Australia’s 2018 GSK Award for Research Excellence. His publications have received most highly cited awards on 5 other occasions. According to Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge, Richard is the highest ever published scientist in the world in the field of melanoma pathology and he also has the highest H index in this field. The Fame Report (2011) published by Medical Experts International (www.medexpert.com) ranked him the 6th leading melanoma expert in any field or discipline worldwide and the highest ranked melanoma pathologist worldwide. In February 2019, he was ranked the world’s 10th leading melanoma expert in any field or discipline and the world’s leading melanoma pathologist (http://expertscape.com/ex/melanoma). In September 2019, Richard was ranked as the leading Australian Pathologist in the entire field of Pathology (www.leagueofscholars.com).

In 2016, Richard was appointed an editor of the 4th Edition of the World Health Organisation Classification of Tumours Skin Tumours volume in which he was the responsible editor for 3 of the 6 sections and authored/co-authored more than 30 chapters. He is also Vice Chair of the Melanoma Expert Panel of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) for the 8thedition of AJCC Cancer Staging System, co-leads the Australian Melanoma Genome Project (part of the International Cancer Genome Consortium), was lead pathologist for the NIH funded The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Melanoma Project (Cell, 2015), chairs the Melanoma Expert Panel for the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting, and lead pathologist/member of the overseeing Management Committee, Multidisciplinary Working Party and Author for the Australian Melanoma Clinical Practice Guidelines and authors the College of American Pathologists Melanoma Reporting protocol. He is also an editorial board member of the American Journal of Surgical Pathology, Modern Pathology and Histopathology and several other international journals and Senior Associate Editor of Pathology. Richard is a Past President of the Australasian Division of the International Academy of Pathology. Together with other MIA colleagues, Richard is chief investigator on a 5 year NHMRC program grant and has a personal Fellowship from the NHMRC