Prof Michael Hughes is a surgical oncologist with specific interest in Melanoma, Sarcoma, Breast cancer and Advanced Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney (1989) and fellow of the Australasian College of Surgeons (1996). He had post fellowship training in surgical oncology at Westmead Hospital, the Sydney Melanoma Unit and the Royal Marsden Hospital, London. In 2000 he founded the Surgical Oncology Service at Westmead. In 2005 he led the establishment of the Breast MDT at the Sydney Adventist Hospital (SAH), the largest private hospital in NSW. He established the Surgical Oncology MDT in 2017. Michael is an affiliate of MIA and has been a member of the Melanoma Guidelines Committee and a variety of advisory groups. He was chair of the RACS Section of Surgical Oncology. Michael was the head of the Clinical School at SAH firstly with the University of Sydney and subsequently the Australian National University (ANU). He is currently an Honorary Clinical Professor at ANU.