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Consultant Dermatologist, Victorian Melanoma Service
Prof John Kelly is a consultant dermatologist at the Victorian Melanoma Service at The Alfred in Melbourne, a multidisciplinary treatment service for melanoma.
John founded the service in 1994 and headed the service until 2018. He is a dermatologist and holds the appointment of Adjunct Professor at the Monash University Department of Medicine at Alfred Health.
From 1987-2005, he also headed the Dermatology Unit at The Alfred. He undertook his Doctorate at the Melanoma Clinic, University of California, San Francisco on the subject of melanoma diagnosis and management.
He maintains an active program of research in melanoma diagnosis and is the author of many published papers on the subject. He has served on the boards of the Australia and New Zealand Melanoma Trials Group and Melanoma Research Victoria and is a steering committee member and author for the Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Melanoma in Australia and New Zealand.
He was awarded an AM in 2018 for “significant service to medicine through the management and treatment of melanoma, as a clinician and administrator and to education”. In 2018, he received, the Belisario Award for Academic Dermatology from the Australasian College of Dermatologists, in recognition of his contribution to melanoma research.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Melanoma
- Dermatology
- Melanoma diagnosis
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Assessing diagnostic accuracy for melanoma with compared to without access to Melanoma Surveillance Photography in high-risk individuals
Mar, V., Cust, A. E., Soyer, P., Morton, R., Wolfe, R., Guitera, P., White, P., Janda, M., Fishburn, P. & Kelly, J.
Department of Health and Aged Care (Australia)
30/06/19 → 31/10/25
Project: Research
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Centre of Research Excellence in Melanoma: Person, tumour and system-focussed knowledge to drive better outcomes in melanoma
Mann, G. J., Cust, A. E., Scolyer, R. A., Braithwaite, J., Kelly, J., Morton, R., Spillane, A., Saw, R., Henderson, M. A. & Yang, J. Y. H.
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Australia)
1/11/17 → 31/10/22
Project: Research
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Enhancing aspects of time-to-event analysis methodology in randomised trials
Wolfe, R., Heritier, S., Gurrin, L. C., Mar, V., Polkinghorne, K., Kelly, J. & Kasza, J.
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Australia)
1/01/17 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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Evaluation of dynamic dermoscopic features of melanoma and benign naevi by sequential digital dermoscopic imaging and total body photography in a high-risk Australian cohort
Nguyen, J., Doolan, B. J., Pan, Y., Vestergaard, T., Paul, E., McLean, C., Haskett, M., Kelly, J., Mar, V. & Chamberlain, A., Feb 2023, In: Australasian Journal of Dermatology. 64, 1, p. 67-79 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
5 Citations (Scopus) -
Improving skin cancer management with ARTificial intelligence: A pre-post intervention trial of an artificial intelligence system used as a diagnostic aid for skin cancer management in a real-world specialist dermatology setting
Felmingham, C., Pan, Y., Kok, Y., Kelly, J., Gin, D., Nguyen, J., Goh, M., Chamberlain, A., Oakley, A., Tucker, S., Berry, W., Darling, M., Jobson, D., Robinson, A., de Menezes, S., Wang, C., Willems, A., McLean, C., Cranwell, W., Adler, N., & 11 others , May 2023, In: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 88, 5, p. 1138-1142 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Other › peer-review
Open Access5 Citations (Scopus) -
The anatomical distribution of lentiginous melanoma (lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma): Differences according to sex
Punchihewa, N., Wee, E., Kelly, J. W., Mclean, C., Mar, V. J. & Pan, Y., Aug 2023, In: Australasian Journal of Dermatology. 64, 3, p. e277-e280 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Other › peer-review
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The role of surveillance imaging for resected high-risk melanoma
Yan, M. K., Adler, N. R., Wolfe, R., Pan, Y., Chamberlain, A., Kelly, J., Yap, K., Voskoboynik, M., Haydon, A., Shackleton, M. & Mar, V. J., Aug 2023, In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology. 19, 4, p. 566-573 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Early Melanoma Diagnosis with Sequential Dermoscopic Images
Yu, Z., Nguyen, J., Nguyen, T. D., Kelly, J., Mclean, C., Bonnington, P., Zhang, L., Mar, V. & Ge, Z., Mar 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 41, 3, p. 633-646 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
35 Citations (Scopus)