Aprof Nada Hamad

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About Aprof Nada Hamad

A/Pof Nada Hamad is a senior staff specialist bone marrow transplant, cellular therapies, clinical and laboratory haematologist at St Vincent’s hospital in Sydney, where she is also director of the haematology clinical trials unit. She is President of Australia and New Zealand Transplant and Cellular Therapies, Chair of the ACI NSW BMT network and Chair of the Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group TCT working group. She is a Conjoint Associate Professor at UNSW and Adjunct Associate Professor at UNDA faculties of medicine. A/Prof Hamad studied Medicine at the University of Sydney and completed her Haematology training in Sydney. Prior to her career in medicine, she completed a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Forensics, working in this field for a short period of time an is an associate member of the ACLM. She completed two post-graduate fellowships in BMT and lymphoma at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto Canada through the University of Toronto. She has a strong interest in clinical trials, has a specialist certificate in Clinical Research (Oncology) from the University of Melbourne. Her clinical research interests are in malignant haematology and bone marrow transplantation. She is an equity diversity and inclusion (EDI) advocate and is the deputy co-chair of the UNSW medicine EDI committee and a committee member of Women in global health Australia.