14 July 2010
Friends-R-4 would like to announce that Professor Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld has become a Patron of the Richard Pratt Fellowships in Prostate Cancer.
The news follows the recent announcement that the Governor of Victoria, Professor David de Kretser, AC, accepted an invitation to become the Patron in Chief of the Fellowships, while former AFL Coach and footballer David Parkin was also been named as a Patron.
Professor Rosenfeld is the Head of the Department of Surgery at the Monash University Central Clinical School, Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at both the Alfred Hospital and Monash University, as well as the Major General and Surgeon of the General Defence Health Reserves for the Australian Defence Force.
The Richard Pratt Fellowship in Prostate Cancer will be represented by an amount of $100,000 being awarded annually in perpetuity, to fund a research fellowship involving translational research into prostate cancer, as well as an awareness campaign to help early detection.
Each year the Pratt Foundation will advertise the availability of a Richard Pratt Fellowship in Prostate Cancer and assemble a selection panel to determine the successful applicant.
Friends-R-4 is aiming to raise funds for the Richard Pratt Fellowships in Prostate Cancer, and donations can be made here.
More information about the Richard Pratt Fellowship in Prostate Cancer.
Below is synopsis of Professor Rosenfeld's background and experiences:
Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1976. He completed general surgery training in Melbourne, and then undertook neurosurgical training. He completed post-fellowship training at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK and was Chief Resident in Neurological Surgery at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA. On his return to Australia in 1988, he was appointed Consultant Neurosurgeon to The Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Royal Children's Hospital and undertook a two year laboratory research fellowship at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, investigating neural transplantation in mice, obtaining the Master of Surgery degree from the University of Melbourne in 1992. He was awarded the Syme Medal and Syme Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for this research. He was awarded a King James IV Professorship for 2002 of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh for hypothalamic hamartoma surgery in children with gelastic epilepsy. Professor Rosenfeld is an international leader in surgery for hypothalamic hamartoma. Professor Rosenfeld is a co-principal investigator on the first multi-centre randomised controlled trial of decompressive craniectomy for patients with severe diffuse traumatic brain injury and is a Principal Investigator on the Monash University Bionic Eye Project which was awarded $8 million by the Australian Research Council in 2009. Professor Rosenfeld was awarded the John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) for 2004. This is the most prestigious research award of the RACS. He was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Glasgow) ad eundum in March 2008.
Professor Rosenfeld specialises in cerebrovascular surgery (aneurysms, arterio-venous malformations), brain tumour and skull base surgery, minimal access and neuro-endoscopic surgery.
Professor Rosenfeld has been an invited visiting professor in the UK, USA, China, Japan, Thailand, India, Vietnam, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Singapore and Israel and has developed a keen interest in developing specialist medical services, particularly neurosurgery, to the developing world. He has visited PNG and Fiji many times for the AusAid funded Pacific Islands Project (PIP) to perform neurosurgery and teach. He was awarded The Sally Harrington Goldwater Memorial Visiting Professor Award from the Barrow Neurological Foundation, Phoenix, Arizona, USA in February 2003 and the LD Hupp Visiting Professorship in Paediatric Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA in August 2004. He was awarded the Asian/Australasian Travelling Fellowship of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia in 1995. His book entitled ‘Neurosurgery in the Tropics: a practical approach to common problems’ co-authored with David A K Watters, was published in 2000 by Macmillan, London. He has authored over 200 publications, and has been appointed to the Editorial Board of Injury (the International Journal of Care of the Injured), the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, the Journal of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) Health Service (Chair, Editorial Board), the American Journal of Disaster Medicine and the Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock (JETS).
Professor Rosenfeld was appointed Professor and Head, Department of Surgery, Central and Eastern Clinical School, Monash University February 2006. Professor Rosenfeld was appointed the Professor/Director of Neurosurgery at the Alfred Hospital and Monash University in October 2000. He was head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Monash Medical Centre and Prince Henry's Hospital in Melbourne, 1990-1993. He was Deputy Director, Neurosurgery Department, The Royal Melbourne Hospital 1993-2000 and Director, Neurosurgery Department at the Royal Children's Hospital, 1996-2000. He was Associate Professor, in the Departments of Paediatrics and Surgery at The University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine and is an instructor on the Definitive Surgery for Trauma Course (DSTC), and has instructed on the Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) course, and the Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance Officers (MICA) course. Professor Rosenfeld was appointed Professor of Neurosurgery (Honorary) at the University of Papua New Guinea in 2000, Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead NSW in 2003 and Honorary Professor of the Neurosurgical Department of the Beijing Tiantan Hospital and of the Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China in September 2005. He was appointed Acting Chairman Department of Surgery Central and Eastern Clinical School Monash University in April 2004. He was appointed to the Ethics in Neurosurgery & Medico-Legal Affairs Committee in 2006 the Education Committee in 2009 and the Neurotrauma Committee in 2010 of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS). He became Chairman, Division of Surgery, The Alfred Hospital, August 2006 and a member of the Bayside Health Executive Committee to 2009.
Professor Rosenfeld has been in the Army Reserve since 1984. He was promoted to Major General, Australian Defence Force and was appointed Surgeon General, Defence Health Reserves on the 1st January 2009. He became Assistant Surgeon General Australian Defence Force - Army and Director General Health Reserves - Army in February 2007. He is one of Australia’s most senior and experienced military surgeons. He was appointed Senior Medical Officer to the 4th Brigade, 2001-2003. He was Consultant, Clinical Policy, Defence Personnel Executive, Canberra, 2003-2004. He was Chair of the General Surgery Consultative Group to the Director General of Defence Health Services 2001-2007. He has served on seven deployments to Rwanda, Bougainville, East Timor (INTERFET and UNTAET), the Solomon Islands and Iraq and was the Neurosurgeon to the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group (EMDG), US Airforce, Camp Anaconda, Balad, Iraq, September 2004 – January 2005. He has been awarded the Australian Service Medal (ASM), the Active Australian Service Medal (AASM) and the Defence Long Service Medal (DLSM). He was awarded the Geoffrey Harkness medal in 2001 recognising outstanding contribution to the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps and the United States Air Force Commendation Medal 2007. He attended Reserve Command and Staff College in December 1992 – July 1993. He was appointed to the staff of the Centre for Military and Veteran’s Health, University of Queensland in 2004, and the Director of Health Reserves (Army), National Triumvirate, Australian Defence Force in June 2004. He was appointed Adjunct Professor of the Centre for Military and Veterans’ Health in June 2006. He is the recipient of the Michael E. DeBakey International Military Surgeons’ Award for Excellence for 2009.
Professor Rosenfeld has a particular academic and clinical interest in neurotrauma and is a Member of the National Trauma Committee, the Victorian Trauma Committee and the Victorian Road Trauma Committee, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS). From 2000 to 2003, he was appointed by the Minister for Health to serve on the State Trauma Committee (Victoria). He was also a member of the Ministerial Working Party and Task Force on Emergency Services and Trauma, Victoria, serves on the Consultative Committee on Road Traffic Fatalities, and is the Chairman of the Trauma Committee of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia (NSA). He was appointed to the Medical Standards Committee of the Metropolitan Ambulance Service in 2003. He has also been appointed to the executive of the NSA, and the Board of Neurosurgery of the RACS, was elected to the State Committee of the RACS in 1998, and was elected Vice-Chairman of this committee in 2000, has been on the Management Committee of the Pacific Island Project (PIP) since 1999, and has been on the International Committee of the RACS since 1999. He was appointed Chairman of the International Committee of the NSA in 1999. He was appointed an Examiner in Neurosurgery to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Member of Court of Examiners May 2005 and was appointed to the Board of Neurosciences Victoria in June 2005 and to the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Victorian Neuroscience Initiative in February 2007. He was appointed Chairman of the Steering Committee of the NET Program: Neurotrauma Evidence Translation of the National Trauma Research Institute (NTRI) in December 2009.
He was elected National Vice-President and State President United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA), August 2001-2004. He has served as a Corps Surgeon and District (State) Medical Officer, St John Ambulance (Victoria). He was Commissioner of St John Ambulance Australia (Victoria) from December 2001 to June 2005. He is a Commander in the Order of St. John (CStJ). Professor Rosenfeld was ‘Herald-Sun Victorian of the Year’ 2002. He received the inaugural President’s award of the Melbourne High School Old Boys Association for ‘Excellence in Career Achievement’ and was awarded the Commonwealth Centenary Medal in May 2003. He was awarded Honorary Membership of Chadstone/East Malvern Rotary in June 2007 and the Melbourne Rotary Vocational Service Award, 2008. He was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop Medical Research Foundation in 2009. Principal clarinet Australian Doctors Orchestra and Corpus Medicorum Chamber Orchestra. Patron of Victorian Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (VAJEX), August 2008 and Patron of Victorian Branch Royal Australian Army Medical Corps Association appointed February 2010.