Local Pathology Director, Sydney (Royal Prince Alfred and Canterbury Hospitals)

Gadigal, Eora.

Prof Kench is the Local Pathol­o­gy Direc­tor of Roy­al Prince Alfred and Can­ter­bury Hos­pi­tals, based in Syd­ney Local Health Dis­trict. He was also the Head of Depart­ment for NSW Health Pathology’s Tis­sue Pathol­o­gy and Diag­nos­tic Oncol­o­gy Depart­ment at Roy­al Prince Alfred Hos­pi­tal from 2009 ‑2022. He has nation­al­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised sub­spe­cial­ty exper­tise in pro­sta­t­ic, pan­cre­at­ic, hepat­ic and gas­troin­testi­nal pathol­o­gy. Prof Kench has pub­lished over 260 peer reviewed jour­nal arti­cles, includ­ing in jour­nals such as Nature, Lancet Oncol­o­gy, JNCI, Can­cer Cell, Jour­nal of Clin­i­cal Oncol­o­gy etc, plus 8 books and book chap­ters, with >36,000 cita­tions. He is also the past Pres­i­dent of the Inter­na­tion­al Col­lab­o­ra­tion on Can­cer Report­ing (ICCR) and a cur­rent mem­ber of the IARC WHO Clas­si­fi­ca­tion of Tumours Stand­ing Edi­to­r­i­al Board. In his spare time, James likes to pur­sue his inter­ests in Roman his­to­ry, cul­ture, trav­el and crick­et (nev­er miss­es Moore Park in the first week of January!).

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