Director - Alan Cass
Renal and Metabolic
Professor Alan Cass is Director of The George Institute's Renal and Metabolic Division and Professor and Director of the Poche Indigenous Health Centre in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney. He has trained and worked as a kidney diseases specialist physician, epidemiologist and health services researcher. From 1998 to 2002, he undertook research into Aboriginal health and worked as a clinician in the Northern Territory. In 2003, he was awarded an Australian Harkness Fellowship in Healthcare Policy at Harvard University where he examined access to, and quality of, renal care in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. Alan received the 2002 MJA/Wyeth Award for the best research paper published in Medical Journal of Australia, titled "Sharing the true stories: improving communication between Aboriginal patients and health carers". Professor Cass is Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Australasian Kidney Trials Network and has extensive experience in running investigator-driven, large-scale, multi-centre clinical trials. He has undertaken a series of consultancies for state and federal governments and Kidney Health Australia regarding strategies to improve the provision of chronic and end-stage kidney disease services.
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