Dr Andrew Dean, Board Member, completed his medical training in the UK, became a fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians in 1993. He established the palliative care services at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and St John of God Subiaco in Perth, later becoming professor of palliative medicine at Edith Cowan University Western Australia. In 2001, he founded the health information website virtualmedicalcentre.com earning the Prime Minister award for small business community excellence and a number of other awards. For a number of years this was the busiest health information site of anywhere in Australia. Stepping into medical oncology in 2006, Andrew now is Head of Oncology at St John of God Subiaco Hospital which has the busiest Clinical Trials unit of any private hospital in Western Australia. He also consults at GenesisCare. He has been the principal investigator on numerous studies both national and International, and as such has published extensively relating to his research. He is leading a number of ongoing clinical trials and has set up a charity to fund cancer research into tumours that have traditionally been very poorly funded. He is currently overseeing a number of studies into pancreatic, gastrointestinal and gynaecological cancers. Under his leadership, his hospital, St John of God Subiaco hospital, was awarded the most outstanding site award by the Australasian GastroIntestinal Trials Group at the annual scientific meeting last year. Prior to joining the board, Dr Dean was an independent investor in Valo who instantly saw the need and clinical utility of the Valo suite of products.
