Professionals

HAPS Executive
Locked Bag 1
Hunter Region Mail Centre
NSW 2310, Australia

Phone: (02) 4921 4000
Fax: (02) 4921 4400


International Enquiries
Phone: +61 2 4921 4000
Fax: +61 2 4921 4400

Staff Profiles

Staff Specialists in the following areas of expertise are available to be consulted for pathology interpretation and patient treatment.
Name Dr Stephen Braye
Qualifications BSc (NSW), MB, BS, FRCPath, FRCPA
Contact Details Phone: (02) 4921 4438 - Fax: (02) 4921 4794
Background Pathology training at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney and Southampton General Hospital, Southampton.
Special Interests Gynaecological, haematopathology and breast pathology.
 
Name Professor Anthony S-Y Leong (Directs the Immunohistology Unit)
Qualifications MB, BS, MD (Adelaide), FRCPath, FCAP, FASCP, FHKAM (Pathol), Honorary FHKCPath, Honorary FRCPT.
Contact Details Phone: (02) 4921 3042 - Fax: (02) 4921 4440
Background Head of the Discipline of Anatomical Pathology, University of Newcastle. Trained at the University of Washington, Seattle. Previously Pathologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Sullivan and Nickolaides, Brisbane, Professor of Pathology, University of Adelaide, Director of Surgical Pathology, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide and Professor of Pathology, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin. Visiting Pathologist to the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Royal Darwin Hospital and Princess Alexandria Hospital, Brisbane. Past President of the International Academy of Pathology and Inaugural President of the Asia-Pacific Society for Molecular Immunohistology. Distinguished Pathologist of the International Academy of Pathology, 2003; Distinguished Professor of the Australian Chinese Medical Association, 1994. Visiting Professor to Duke University, Chulalongkorn University, University of Indonesia, Chang Gung Medical College, Taiwan, Tokai University, Japan, and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China. Co-inventor of the first Microwave Tissue Processor and Automated Image Capture System. Serves on the editorial boards of 22 international journals.
Special Interests Immunohistology, lymphoproliferative diseases, breast, hepatobiliary, CNS, urological and gastrointestinal cancers.
 
Name Professor Bhagwandeen
Qualifications MB, ChB, MD, FRCPA, FRCPath
Contact Details Phone: (02) 4921 4988 - Fax: (02) 4921 4794
Background Previously Associate Professor and Head of Anatomical Pathology, University of Newcastle and Director of HAPS Laboratory, Maitland.
Special Interests GIT, Liver, Genitourinary, and Tumour Pathology.
 
Name Dr Rajathurai Murugasu
Qualifications MBBS (Singapore). FRCPath
Contact Details Phone: (02) 4921 4434 - Fax: (02) 4921 4794
Background Trained in Anatomical Pathology in University Hospital Kuala Lumpur, University Hospital Seattle and Royal Post Graduate Medical School London.
Special Interests Liver and gastro-intestinal pathology, tumor and renal transplant pathology.
 
Name Dr Anne Crotty
Qualifications B.Med, FRCPA
Contact Details Phone: (02) 4921 4047 - Fax: (02) 4921 4794
Background Trained in general pathology at Concord Hospital from 1989 to 1993. Worked for Capital Pathology in Canberra from 1994 to 1998, ACT pathology at the Canberra hospital from 1998 to 2002, Hunter Area Pathology from 2002 until today.
Special Interests Breast, lung and gastrointestinal pathology.
 
Name Dr Phillip Woodford
Qualifications MB, BS, FRCPA
Contact Details Phone: (02) 4921 4650 - Fax: (02) 4921 4794
Background Previously Director of Blood Banking.
Special Interests Surgical and cytopathology with interests in paediatric, perinatal, CNS, head and neck, lung and renal pathology.
 
Name Dr Mark Formby
Qualifications MB, BS, FRCPA, MASM
Contact Details Phone: (02) 4921 4048 - Fax: (02) 4921 1794
Background Pathology training at Concord and Wollongong hospitals.
Special Interests Urological, skin and gastrointestinal pathology. Member, Volunteer Pathologists Australia