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Roger Woodruff graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne. As a post-graduate he specialised in clinical haematology and medical oncology and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP). He was awarded a Clinical Research Fellowship of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia that enabled him to continue his studies at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Department of Medical Oncology at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. Back in Australia, he became increasing involved in the field of palliative care and helped establish and develop the Austin Hospital Palliative Care Service as well as the regional community-based Mid-Eastern Palliative Care Service in suburban Melbourne. He was Director of Palliative Care at Austin Health, a major teaching hospital of the University of Melbourne, from 1996 to 2007. He has served as Chairman of the Palliative Care Group of the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia and as a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee for Training in Palliative Medicine of the RACP. The fourth edition of his textbook ‘Palliative Medicine’ was published by Oxford University Press in 2004. He has also written a number of other monographs including ‘Cancer Pain’, ‘Symptom Control in Advanced Cancer’ and ‘Pain and Symptom Control in AIDS’.
He has been a member of the Board of IAHPC since its inception and served as Chairman for three years, 1998 – 2000.
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