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Prof Vivienne Milch

Medical Director, Cancer Australia; Medical Advisor, Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing; Chair, Expert Advisory Group, National Lung Cancer Screening Program; Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medicine, The University of Notre Dame Australia (Sydney Campus); Professorial Fellow, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University
Professor Vivienne Milch is Medical Director at Cancer Australia. Professor Milch is also Medical Advisor to the Australian Commonwealth Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing on cancer screening policy and Chair of the Expert Advisory Group overseeing the new National Lung Cancer screening Program. Vivienne holds a Master’s degree in Health Policy and is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Medicine, Sydney Campus at The University of Notre Dame, Australia and Professorial Fellow at the Caring Futures Institute at Flinders University in Adelaide.Prior to joining Cancer Australia, Professor Milch was a General Practitioner and clinical researcher at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney.

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