Clinical Associate Professor Chris Hemmings

Clinical Associate Professor Hemmings is a surgical pathologist who worked in New Zealand and Canberra and undertook sabbatical fellowships in London and Boston before moving to Perth in 2013.  Chris has subspecialty expertise in soft tissue, gastrointestinal, and head, neck & endocrine pathology and has a particular interest in rare cancers including sarcoma, neuroendocrine tumours and GIST, and in tumour biology as it informs the multidisciplinary management of cancer.

She belongs to several professional interest groups in these areas, including COSA, AGITG, ASSG, ENETS, ANZNET and the European Society of Pathology.  Dr Hemmings serves on the ASSG Scientific Advisory Committee, the WA Colorectal Tumour Collaborative Group and the Clinical Advisory Group of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, and she is a founding member and foundation Secretary/Treasurer of the Australasian Gastrointestinal Pathology Society.  Professor Hemmings is the current WA State Councillor for the Royal College of Pathologists Australasia (RCPA), and she sits on the RCPA’s Cancer Services Advisory Committee and chairs the Bone and Soft Tissue Expert Committee.

She has a longstanding commitment to research and teaching, serving as an examiner for the RCPA and chairing the anatomic pathology programme committee of the RCPA’s annual educational meeting, “Pathology Update”.  A reviewer for several journals in the fields of pathology and cancer, Professor Hemmings is a member of the Editorial Board of Pathology and has more than 30 publications (with >190 citations), as well as numerous oral and poster presentations and invited lectures at national and international conferences.  Most of her current research projects focus on colorectal cancer and she is currently working towards a PhD with the School of Surgery and the St John of God Cancer Research Group based in Subiaco.  Professor Hemmings was Co-Convenor of CTEC's Generic Surgical Sciences Training Course.