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Prof Victoria Mar MBBS (Hons), FACD, PhD
Director of the Victorian Melanoma Service
Prof Victoria Mar is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists and Director of the Victorian Melanoma Service at The Alfred Hospital. She is an NHMRC Early Career Fellow at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.
She completed her PhD at Monash University/VMS and Peter MacCallum entitled ‘Clinical and molecular characteristics of aggressive melanoma’ (2014). She has an interest in early diagnosis and surveillance of high-risk individuals and supervises doctoral students in clinical and translational research projects.
She is a member of the Cancer Council Australia Melanoma Guidelines Working Group, is Clinical Lead for the Melanoma Clinical Outcomes Registry and Board member of the Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials Group.
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):
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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The ACRF Centre for Dynamic Immuno-Oncology (CDIO)
Shackleton, M. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Cherk, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Naranbhai, V. (Chief Investigator (CI)), McLean, C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Monif, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Si Lun Tam, C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Kalff, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Fleming, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Mar, V. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Ge, Z. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Cheung, J. (Project Manager)
7/04/25 → 7/01/30
Project: Research
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Data driven approaches to outsmart skin cancer
Mar, V. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
1/01/25 → 31/12/29
Project: Research
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Melanoma Research Victoria (MRV) Collaboration
Mar, V. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), McArthur, G. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Kee, D. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Underhill, C. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Vico-Alonso, C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Ge, Z. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Yu, Z. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Button-Sloan, A. E. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Shackleton, M. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Trapani, J. A. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Fox, S. B. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Sandhu, S. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Dobrovic, A. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Neeson, P. J. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Gyorki, D. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Haydon, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Papenfuss , T. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Behren, A. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Hicks, R. J. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Parente, P. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Sheppard, K. E. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Underhill, C. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Harvey, K. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Speakman, D. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Kok, D. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Kelly, J. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Cebon , J. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Rao, A. (Associate Investigator (AI)) & Da Gama Duarte, J. (Associate Investigator (AI))
28/03/24 → 28/03/29
Project: Research
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The SiroSkin study: A multi-centre randomised double-blind placebo- controlled trial of 1% topical sirolimus in the chemoprevention of facial squamous cell carcinomas in solid organ transplant recipients
Khosrotehrani, K. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Campbell, S. B. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Chambers, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Gordon, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Webster, A. C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Mar, V. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Damian, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Chong, A. H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Schaider, H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Isbel, N. M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), McKenzie, S. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Gin, D. (Associate Investigator (AI)) & Soyer, P. (Associate Investigator (AI))
1/02/22 → 31/01/27
Project: Research
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Roadmap Options for Melanoma Screening in Australia (Melanoma-ROSA)
Janda, M. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Cust, A. E. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Soyer, H. P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Gillespie, N. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Gordon, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Ge, Z. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Betz-Stablein, B. D. (Associate Investigator (AI)), McInerney-Leo, A. M. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Lawn, C. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Fernandez-Peñas, P. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Canfell, K. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Mar, V. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Caffery, L. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Eriksson, A. (Associate Investigator (AI)) & Scolyer, R. A. (Associate Investigator (AI))
NHMRC - National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia)
1/01/22 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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A multimodal vision foundation model for clinical dermatology
Yan, S., Yu, Z., Primiero, C., Vico-Alonso, C., Wang, Z., Yang, L., Tschandl, P., Hu, M., Ju, L., Tan, G., Tang, V., Ng, A. B., Powell, D., Bonnington, P., See, S., Magnaterra, E., Ferguson, P., Nguyen, J., Guitera, P. & Banuls, J. & 5 others, , Aug 2025, In: Nature Medicine. 31, 8, p. 2691-2702 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access12 Citations (Scopus) -
Assessment of image quality on the diagnostic performance of clinicians and deep learning models: Cross-sectional comparative reader study
Oloruntoba, A. I., Asghari-Jafarabadi, M., Sashindranath, M., Ingvar, Å., Adler, N. R., Vico-Alonso, C., Niklasson, L., Caixinha, A. L., Hiscutt, E., Holmes, Z., Assersen, K. B., Adamson, S., Jegathees, T., Bertelsen, T., Velasco-Tamariz, V., Helkkula, T., Kristiansen, S., Toholka, R., Goh, M. S. & Chamberlain, A. & 7 others, , Jul 2025, In: Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. 39, 7, p. 1306-1314 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Correction to: Hierarchical skin lesion image classification with prototypical decision tree (npj Digital Medicine, (2025), 8, 1, (26), 10.1038/s41746-024-01395-z)
Yu, Z., Nguyen, T. D., Ju, L., Gal, Y., Sashindranath, M., Bonnington, P., Zhang, L., Mar, V. & Ge, Z., 21 Feb 2025, In: npj Digital Medicine. 8, 1, 1 p., 116.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Other › peer-review
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Hierarchical skin lesion image classification with prototypical decision tree
Yu, Z., Nguyen, T. D., Ju, L., Gal, Y., Sashindranath, M., Bonnington, P., Zhang, L., Mar, V. & Ge, Z., 14 Jan 2025, In: npj Digital Medicine. 8, 1, 15 p., 26.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus) -
Multi-task AI models in dermatology: Overcoming critical clinical translation challenges for enhanced skin lesion diagnosis
Mehta, D., Primiero, C., Betz-Stablein, B., Nguyen, T. D., Gal, Y., Bowling, A., Haskett, M., Sashindranath, M., Bonnington, P., Mar, V., Soyer, H. P. & Ge, Z., 7 Feb 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Australian Rheumatology Association, Annual Scientific Meeting, Best Clinical Paper Award
Wluka, A. (Recipient), Yan, M. (Recipient), Wang, C. Y. (Recipient), Wolfe, R. (Recipient) & Mar, V. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)