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Prof James Kench

Prof James Kench

Local Pathology Director, Sydney (RPA Hospital, Camperdown)

Gadigal, Eora. Prof James Kench

Prof Kench is the Local Pathol­o­gy Direc­tor of Syd­ney Local Health Dis­trict, based at Roy­al Prince Alfred Hos­pi­tal. He was the Depart­ment Head of 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 160 peer reviewed jour­nal arti­cles, includ­ing in jour­nals such as Nature, JNCI, Can­cer Cell, Jour­nal of Clin­i­cal Oncol­o­gy etc, plus 8 books and book chap­ters, with >13,000 cita­tions. In his spare time James likes to pur­sue his inter­ests in Roman his­to­ry, cul­ture and trav­el. He is a crick­et trag­ic and can be found at Moore Park in the first week of every year.

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