Director of Radiation Oncology, Royal Adelaide and Lyell McEwin hospitals and Alan Walker Cancer Care Centre, and Medical Director, The Australian Bragg Centre for Proton Therapy and Research

Michael is a senior radiation oncologist who is involved in Australian and international research projects with a focus on planning and developing new radiation therapy facilities and improving Indigenous cancer care and quality of life during cancer treatment. In 2010, he established Darwin’s Alan Walker Cancer Care Centre. Michael’s clinical experience covers a broad range of solid tumour malignancies with special interest in breast cancer, head and neck cancer, upper gastrointestinal cancer, colorectal cancer and skin cancers.
Michael is a member of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists Particle Therapy Group and several other leading cancer trial groups including the American Society of Radiation Oncology, the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology and the Trans-Tasman Oncology Group. He also sits on the Board of the Asia-Oceania Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group.
In January 2021, Michael was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his significant service to medicine, and to radiation oncology.