Breast Endocrine & Surgical Oncology

Mr Brendon J Coventry

Senior Consultant Surgeon	Breast, Endocrine & Surgical Oncology Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Associate Professor	Department of Surgery, University of Adelaide.

APPOINTMENTS:

Chair, Melanoma and Skin Cancer Section, Clinical Oncological Society of Australia
Secretary, Surgical Oncology Section, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Director, Adelaide Melanoma Unit
Senior Examiner for Australian Medical Council for foreign medical graduates entering Australia
Foundation Member and South Australian Representative, Australian and New Zealand Melanoma Trials Group
Clinical Investigator for National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA (NIH Database listed)

COMMITTEES:

Executive Member, Oncology Education Committee, Cancer Council Australia
Trials Committee, Multicentre Australian and New Zealand TROG/ RACS Trial

TEACHING/ACADEMIC:

4th Year Medicine Clinical Skills Teaching in Breast Endocrine Surgical Oncology
Coordinator in General Surgery 4 th year, Dental School, University of Adelaide
Coordinator in Adelaide Hills Surgery Teaching, Final Year Rotation, Medical School, University of Adelaide
Senior Examiner for Australian Medical Council for foreign graduates entering Australia
Assessor for Medical Student Entry, University of Adelaide
Special Tutor for Medical Students with Specific Learning Difficulties, University of Adelaide
Postgraduate Surgical Training Lecturer and Tutor
Lecturer in First, Fourth, SixthYear Medicine

CLINICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS:

NIH Multicentre Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial (MLST-I) for Melanoma Treatment (in collaboration with Drs D Morton and A Cochran, John Wayne Cancer Institute, St John's Hospital and UCLA, Los Angeles (Principal Investigator)

NIH INTERNATIONAL MULTICENTRE MELANOMA POLYVALENT STAGE III & STAGE IV MELAMOMA VACCINE (C-VAX) THERAPY TRIALS 1998 – present In collaboration with Dr Donald Morton, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Los Angeles and CancerVax Corporation (Principal Investigator).

TROG/ RACS Randomised Clinical Trial of Surgery versus Surgery plus Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Regional Control in Patients with Completely Resected Macroscopic Nodal Metastatic Malignant Melanoma. Australian and New Zealand Melanoma Trials Group

Vaccinia Melanoma Cell Lysate Vaccine (VMCL) Trial for treatment of advanced Stage IV Melanoma with and without Chemotherapy in collaboration with Professor Peter Hersey ( University of Newcastle, NSW)

Heat-Shock Protein Melanoma Vaccine vs Standard DTIC Chemotherapy Trial for advanced Metastatic Melanoma in collaboration with Antigenics Corporation Boston, USA (Principal Investigator).

Breast Cancer
Arimidex, Tamoxifen Alone or in Combination (ATAC) International Multicentre Trial with Drs P Gill, J Kollias, M.Bochner, P Malycha)

MEETINGS ATTENDED:

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, May, 2004
Clinical Oncological Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting, Canberra, Nov, 2004
International Sentinel Node Conference, Los Angeles, December 3-6, 2004
Multicentre Melanoma Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial Principal Investigators Meeting, Los Angeles December 7, 2004
Human Leukocyte Differentiation Antigen International Conference and Australian Society for Immunology Conference, Adelaide, December 12-17, 2004

SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS:

2004 Coventry BJ, Koga H, Chatterton B Advanced Use of Lymphatic Mapping and Sentinel Node Biopsy in Melanoma Surgery, International Sentinel Node Conference, Los Angeles, December

PAPERS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION:

Winefield HR; Coventry BJ; Pradhan,M; Harvey E; Lambert V A comparison of women with breast cancer who do and do not seek support from the Internet. Australian J of Psychology. Apr; Vol 55(1): 30-34, 2003

Colin G Luke, Brendon J Coventry, Erwin J Foster-Smith, David M Roder A critical analysis of reasons for improved survival from invasive cutaneous melanoma. Cancer Causes and Control14: 871-878, 2003.

Colin G Luke, Brendon J Coventry, Erwin J Foster-Smith, David M Roder Are Cutaneous Melanomas of Specified Thickness Showing Deeper Levels of Invasion at Diagnosis? Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. Aug-Dec;4(4):307-11, 2003.

Coventry BJ, Chatterton B, Whitehead F, James C, Gill PG. Sentinel lymph node dissection and lymphatic mapping for local subcutaneous recurrence in melanoma treatment: longer-term follow-up results. Ann Surg Oncol. Mar-Apr;11(3 Suppl):203S-7S, 2004.

Coventry BJ, Heinzel S Reply:Is CD1a involved in antitumour immune responses during carcinogenesis?. Brit J Cancer Br J Cancer. Feb 23;90(4):939, 2004.

Coventry BJ, Heinzel S. CD1a in Human Cancers: a new role for an old molecule. Trends Immunol. 2004 May;25(5):242-248. (Major International Review)

Winefield HR; Coventry BJ; Harvey E; Lambert V Setting up a health education website: Practical advice for health professionals. Patient Education and Counselling May 53: 175-182 2004

Grimbaldeston MA, Pearce AL, Robertson BO, Coventry BJ, Marshman G, Finlay-Jones JJ, Hart PH. Association between melanoma and dermal mast cell prevalence in sun-unexposed skin. Br J Dermatol. 2004 May;150(5):895-903, 2004.

Coventry BJ, Heinzel S. Dysfunctional DC Subgroups in Human Cancers. Trends Immunol. 2004 August.

Hersey P, Menzies SW, Coventry BJ, Nguyen T, Farrelly M, Collins S, Hirst D, Johnson H. Phase I/II study of immunotherapy with T-cell peptide epitopes in patients with stage IV melanoma. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2004 Sep 21, 2004

ABSTRACTS:

2003	Coventry BJ Vaccines for Treatment of Human Breast and Other Cancers, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Annual Scientific Meeting, Brisbane, May.
2003	Coventry BJ Thin Metastasising Melanoma, Melanoma and Skin Cancer Section, Clinical Oncological Society of Australia, November.
2004	Bevington E, Tsopelas C, Kollias J, Bochner M, Coventry BJ, Gill G, Chatterton B Sentinel Node Localisation using a novel blue dye in a sheep model. Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Meeting, May.
2004	Coventry BJ, Koga H, Chatterton B Advanced Use of Lymphatic Mapping and Sentinel Node Biopsy in Melanoma Surgery, International Sentinel Node Conference, Los Angeles, December

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Coventry BJ Chapter 11: Skin Lesions in Devitt PG; Barker J Clinical Problems in General Medicine and Surgery, Harcourt Brace, London, 2003

Coventry BJ, Jamieson GG Mastectomy; Microdocectomy: the Anatomy of the Breast - Chapter 27 in Anatomy of General Surgery Operations Jamieson GG Ed 2E Churchill Livingston, London, 2004

Coventry BJ, Jamieson GG, Katasaros J Block Dissection of the Groin: the Anatomy of the Femoral Triangle and Lymph Nodes- Chapter 30 in Anatomy of General Surgery Operations Jamieson GG Ed 2E Churchill Livingston, London, 2004

GRANTS:

2003 - 2004	"A Novel Non-toxic Approach to Bone Cancer Therapy" Chief Investigators Evdokiou A; Findlay DM; Coventry BJ Cancer Council of South A ustralia ($129,616).
2003 - 2004	A Novel Non-toxic Approach to Bone Cancer Therapy Chief Investigators Evdokiou A; Findlay DM; Coventry BJ University of Adelaide B3 Funding (AUD $12,000)
2003 - 2004	“Heat Shock Protein Vaccine in Melanoma Treatment” Antigenics Corporation, Boston, Contract Research). (Coventry BJ site Principal Investigator)
2003 - 2004	The role of CD1a in Melanoma Vaccine Treatments” Coventry BJ Royal Adelaide Hospital Hanson Institute Research Fund ($10,000)