Jeff Szer AM is a senior haematologist in the Clinical Haematology Department at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) and Director of the Western and Central Melbourne Integrated Cancer Service. He established the first adult BMT centre in Melbourne in 1984 and has clinical research interests in all areas of haematology in particular improving the outcomes of treatment for leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma and the non-malignant conditions of Gaucher disease and paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria. He is Past President of the Worldwide Network for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (WBMT) and is current President of the World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). Jeff sits on a number of national and international committees and organisations involved in haematology and was a member of the Gaucher Disease Advisory Committee and chaired the PNH Disease Advisory Committee of the Life Saving Drugs Program of the Australian Department of Health and Ageing until the committees were disbanded in May 2014.
