Robotic Assisted Hysterectomy eLearning Module

Professor Thomas Jobling is Director of Gynaecologic Oncology at Monash Medical Centre. He graduated from Monash University in 1980 and did his post graduate sub specialist training in Gynaecologic Oncology in London at the Royal Marsden and St Bartholomews hospitals. He has subsequently been elected as a Member of the Society of Pelvic Surgeons and is also Founder of the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation (1999). He is also Chairman of the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation Board. His major interests are in radical surgery for ovarian cancer and the application of robotic surgery for gynaecological malignancy.   Professor Jobling is an active member of a Research Team in bio marker detection and proteomics in ovarian cancer. He is involved as a collaborative investigator on a number of international Clinical Trials, and is a Member of the Australia and New Zealand Gynaecologic Oncology Group, the Australian Society of Gynaecologic Oncology, the Victorian Co-operative Oncology Group and the International Society of Gynaecological Cancer.

Professor Paul McMenamin is the Director of the Centre for Human Anatomy Education. The Centre for Human Anatomy Education has been established within the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology to ensure that undergraduate and postgraduate human anatomy education at Monash is of the highest international standard. 

Associate Professor Orla McNally is a sub-specialist surgical Gynaecological Oncologist and currently the Director of OncologyGynaecology at the Royal Women’s Hospital and the Gynaecological Tumour Stream Lead for the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer. Orla is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne. In addition to her duties at The Royal Women’s Hospital Orla provides clinical support to Peter McCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital. Originally from Ireland, Orla trained in general surgery and obstetrics and gynaecology Ireland and the UK and first came to Melbourne during 1998 when she began her training in gynae-oncology with Professor Michael Quinn. After five years as a consultant in the NHS in Somerset, England, Orla returned to Melbourne in 2009 as Professor Quinn’s successor with her husband, David. Orla is passionate about multidisciplinary care and in particular providing women with the opportunity to enroll in clinical trials. She is a member of the Cancer Clinical Network for the Cancer Council Victoria, advisor to Ovarian Cancer Australia and a Board member of the Women’s Cancer Foundation.

Dr Adam Pendlebury is a gynaecologist and gynaecological oncologist based in Melbourne, Victoria. He specialises in the surgical management of complex gynaecological conditions, including abnormal cervical screening tests (colposcopy), ovarian cysts, uterine fibroids and cancers of the female reproductive system (uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, cervix, vagina and vulva).

Adam undertook his general training in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Mercy Hospital for Women in Heidelberg, Melbourne, before completing advanced surgical training in gynaecology and gynaecological oncology at the Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne, the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Mater Hospital Brisbane, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, as well as the Cleveland Clinic in the US. The emphasis of his training has been on the use of minimally invasive surgical techniques – both laparoscopic and robotic-assisted procedures.

Dr Jen Aik Tan completed his medical degree at the University of Tasmania, he undertook specialty anaesthesia training in Western Australia before undertaking further subspecialty training in neuro-anaesthesia and cardiothoracic anaesthesia at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. In 2015, Jen obtained a postgraduate diploma in clinical ultrasound from the University of Melbourne after completing further fellowship training in transthoracic echocardiography. Currently he is working as a specialist anaesthetist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Mercy Health.