Senior surgeon
Melanoma Institute Australia
North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Prof. Omgo E. Nieweg, MD, PhD, Melanoma Institue Australia, The University of Sydney School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Department of Melanoma and Surgical Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Omgo E. Nieweg received his M.D. (1976) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He completed residencies in nuclear medicine and surgery. He cmpleted a fellowship in surgical oncology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas 1990-1991. He was a staff member in the Department of Surgery, The Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam from 1992 to 2013. Subsequently, he joined the Melanoma Institute Australia in Sydney. He was appointed as clinical professor at the University of Sydney in 2014 and became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2015. He contributed to national and international studies on various aspects of diagnosis, imaging, staging and surgical treatment of melanoma, breast cancer, penile cancer and soft tissue sarcoma. His main fields of interest are melanoma, imaging and lymphatic mapping. Prof. Nieweg is the author or coauthor of over 400 journal articles and over 100 book chapters.
He was Vice President of the First international congress on the sentinel node in diagnosis and treatment of cancer in Amsterdam in 1999. He has lectured in 30 countries. He is a founding member of the International Sentinel Node Society and a current member of its Board. He is also a member of the Society of Surgical Oncology (USA), the European Society of Surgical Oncology, and the Dutch Societies of Surgery, Nuclear Medicine and Surgical Oncology.
Friday, March 24, 2023
10:44 AM – 10:54 AM
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