Endocrinology

MB BS (Adel), MD (Adel), PhD (London), FRACP, FRCP (C)

Professor wall has been working at Nepean Hospital for 3 months having joined us from Geelong where he worked for 2 ½ years. Before that, he spent 24 years in academic positions in Canada and the US. He became a full professor at McGill University in 1988. During all of this period he has carried out basic and clinical research into Graves’ disease, the associated ophthalmopathy, and related thyroid and orbital autoimmune disorders. His main area of research interest has been the eye muscle component of thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy for which he is known internationally. He was the first to focus on the autoimmune basis of ophthalmopathy and identify serum autoantibodies and to recognize the importance of the serum eye muscle antibodies as markers of eye muscle damage. He is the founding Medical Director of The International Thyroid Centre, and will develop new collaborative research studies with investigators in Fiji, PNG, the Philippines and Malaysia.

Jack has been invited as keynote speaker or contributor to many national and international symposia and congresses, including an International Symposium on Thyroid Eye Disease in Greece (1998), the Japan Thyroid Association annual meeting and 2nd. Japan, Korea, China Thyroid Conference in Tokyo, International Symposium on Thyroid-Associated Ophthalmopathy in Kyoto (2000), and to Witwatersrand University Medical school, Johannesburg (2001). Recent research funding includes grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (1979-1993 and 2000-2003) and the National Eye Institute of the NIH (1984-1994). Just before leaving Halifax (in 2002) he was awarded a grant from Cy-pres Canada of $204,000 to study an animal model for ophthalmopathy.

He is a board member of the National Graves’ disease Foundation and foundation scientific advisor and board member of The Thyroid Foundation of Canada, the world’s first lay organization for diseases of the Thyroid. In 2004 he was given an “award of excellence” for his work with the Foundation, one of only 3 doctors in Canada so honoured. He has published approximately 200 papers.

Professor Jack R Wall
Professor of Medicine
Department of Academic Medicine

Nepean Hospital
The University of Sydney (Nepean Campus)
PO Box 63
PENRITH NSW 2751

Phone: (02) 4734 2613
Fax: (02) 4734 2614
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