David Westerman is a University of Melbourne graduate with dual fellowships and has held his current position as Head of Haematopathology at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, since 2000.

David is Deputy Director of the Dept of Pathology, Chair of the Transfusion Medicine Committee and holds honorary appointments with the University of Melbourne at St Vincent’s Hospital Clinical School, and the Sir Peter MacCallum Dept of Oncology. He is a member of the RCPA immunophenotyping committee.

He has broad clinical and laboratory academic interests including teaching, myeloproliferative neoplasms, flow cytometry including measureable residual disease (MRD) where he leads Australia’s premier flow cytometry diagnostic laboratory. Other interests include molecular haematology and biomarkers which are reflected by over 140 peer reviewed publications.