Dr Jeffrey Keir (GP)
- Name
- Dr Jeffrey Gordon Keir
- Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery University of Queensland Australia 1984
- Occupation
- General Practitioner (GP)
- Gender
- Male
- Languages Spoken
- French
- Indonesian
- Mandarin
Dr Keir has had a strong interest in skin cancer for many years and has been practising skin cancer medicine exclusively for over 14 years.
Having had several skin cancers himself at an early age, Dr Keir completed a Masters in Family Medicine from Monash University, concentrating on Dermatology and has a Diploma in Practical Dermatology (Distinction) from Cardiff University, Wales, where he is now a Tutor for their Dermoscopy Course, Postgraduate Dermatology Society and Diploma in Dermatology Course. He holds a Fellowship of the Skin Cancer College of Australia and New Zealand (Peter Bourne Prize), a Certificate in Skin Cancer Medicine (High Distinction) from the Skin Cancer Society of Australia, and is a past Lecturer for the University of Queensland postgraduate skin cancer course.
He is a member of the Australia and New Zealand Melanoma Trials Group, the International Dermoscopy Society and is a Section Editor for the journal Dermatology: Practical and Conceptual. He has presented at the 7th World Melanoma Congress in Austria 2009 and numerous other meetings, and is the past Chair of the Research Committee of the Skin Cancer College of Australia and New Zealand. He was an invited speaker on Lentiginous Melanomas and Skin Cancer Surgery for the 2010 Australian Skin Cancer Conference, an invited speaker on Early Melanoma Detection for the 2010 North Coast Cancer Conference, invited speaker for the 2014 Australasian Skin Cancer Congress and is a regular teacher for North Coast GP Training on skin cancer diagnosis and surgery.
He is the immediate past Chair of the SCCA Educational Blog, the coordinator of the SCCA Certificate in Dermoscopy Workshops and has been coordinator for the Australasian Dermatoscopy Masterclasses in 2013 and 2014. In 2015 he was an invited speaker and session chairman at the World Dermoscopy Congress in Vienna and the Australasian Skin Cancer Congress and is an invited speaker for the Global Controversies in Skin Cancer meeting in Brisbane in late 2015.
- Affiliated Clinics
- SunDoctors Ballina
- Affiliated Organisations
- International Dermoscopy Society
Practice Locations
Ballina
- SunDoctors Ballina
- Address
- Unit 3 90 Tamar Street
Ballina NSW 2478
Australia
- Phone
- 13 75 46
