Nehmat Houssami MBBS, FAFPHM, FASBP, MPH, MEd, PhD

Dr. Nehmat Houssami MB BS (Hons), FAFPHM, MPH, Ph.D. is a clinician-researcher and a public health physician, and Professor of Public Health at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health. She is a clinician at the Royal Hospital for Women’s Breast Centre. She has focused her career on breast cancer screening, diagnosis and pre-operative assessment for >25 years, and complemented clinical work with research over the past decade. She leads a breast cancer research program at Sydney University with the majority of her research comprising international or national collaborations, including large screening trials and cohort studies. Her work includes evaluation of population breast screening and new technologies such as tomosynthesis and artificial intelligence in cancer screening, pre-operative staging, screening women at increased risk, and the effect of testing on clinical outcomes. She has experience in evidence synthesis and the use of evidence to inform practice; she has contributed to the development of international guidelines in both early and advanced breast cancer including surgical guidelines.

Prof Houssami has published >260 peer-reviewed publications, and has co-edited two books on breast cancer screening. She holds a National Breast Cancer Foundation (Australia) Breast Cancer Research Leadership Fellowship and is co-Editor of The Breast.