Alex Boussioutas

Alex Boussioutas is Director of Gastroenterology at The Alfred, a tenured academic clinician at the Monash University Central Clinical School, Director of Clinical Genetics and Genomics at Alfred Health, Program Director of Specialty Medicine at Alfred Health, Head of Gastrointestinal Risk Management at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Professorial Fellow at Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne.Alex leads a research program in upper gastrointestinal cancer at Monash University and The Alfred. His research encompasses population health and screening, use of novel technologies to aid early detection of cancer and using genomics in the investigation of molecular pathology of gastric cancer.He was the only Australian collaborator in The Cancer Genome Atlas Network in Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer, which led to landmark studies of the characterisation of gastric and oesophageal cancer, published in Nature. Alex is one of Australia’s leading experts in inherited cancer of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract.