Prof Alex Boussioutas

Alex Boussioutas is a tenured academic clinician and Professor of Gastroenterology at the School of Translational Medicine, Monash University. He is the Professor and Director of Gastroenterology and the inaugural Director of Clinical Genetics and Genomics at The Alfred. He was appointed as Program Director for Specialty Medicine at Alfred Health. He is the also the Head of GI Risk Management at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Alfred Health. He is the current President of the Gastroenterology Society of Australia and has been the longest serving Associate Dean for Graduate Research at the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences of University of Melbourne up till 2021.

He leads a research program in Gastrointestinal Cancer at Monash University and The Alfred. His research encompasses a number of disciplines including: population health and screening; use of novel technologies to aid early detection of cancer and; genomics in the investigation of molecular pathology of gastric cancer. He was the only Australian collaborator of The Cancer Genome Atlas Network in Upper GI Cancer which led to landmark studies in the characterisation of gastric and oesophageal cancer that were published in Nature. He has a particular interest in cancer genetics and is one of Australia’s leading experts in inherited cancer of the Upper and Lower GI tract.