Dr Nicholas Wickham (Haematologist)
- Name
- Assoc Prof Nicholas William Rupert Wickham
- Qualifications
- MBChB 1976
- FRACP
- FRCPA
- Occupation
- Haematologist
- Gender
- Male
- Medical Specialties
- Haematology
- Haematology (Pathology)
Dr Wickham trained in Medicine at Cambridge and undertook advanced training in Clinical and Laboratory Haematology in London at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, St Georges Hospital Medical School and the Royal Marsden Hospitals. During this time, he also worked as Research Assistant at the Physiological Laboratory in Cambridge investigating the properties of artificial fluorocarbon blood substitutes.
He subsequently spent 2 years as Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota Hospital working on endothelial cell signal transduction and responses to inflammatory and thrombotic mediators. His previous Consultant positions have been as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Oncology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he established the adult leukaemia service and high dose therapy with stem cell transplantation at the Prince of Wales Hospital from 1993 to 1997.
He then came to Australia, where he was Senior Consultant Haematololgist and Head of Research in the Department of Haematology-Oncology at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital for two years. He moved to Townsville in 2000 to take up the position of Director of Haematology-Oncology and Chairman of the North Queensland Oncology Service until returning to Adelaide in July 2003. He has over 80 publications to his name, including several book chapters.Since October 2010, he was appointed CEO of Clinpath Laboratories, but continues to consult on a part-time basis at Adelaide Cancer Centre.
- Affiliated Clinics
- Icon Cancer Care Adelaide
- Adelaide Cancer Centre - Tennyson Centre
- Affiliated Organisations
- The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)
- Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA)
- Medical Oncology Group of Australia (MOGA)
- ClinPath Laboratories
- Private Cancer Physicians of Australia
- Affiliated Universities
- University of Adelaide
- Medical Conditions
- Myeloma
- Lymphoma
- Leukaemia
- Topics
- Cancer
Practice Locations
SA
- Icon Cancer Care Adelaide
- Address
- Tennyson Centre
Suite 10 First Floor
520 South Road
Kurralta Park SA 5037
Australia
- Phone
- 08 8292 2333
- Adelaide Cancer Centre - Tennyson Centre
- Address
- Tennyson Centre
Suite 10, Level 1
520 South Road
Kurralta Park SA 5037
Australia
- Phone
- 08 8292 2220
