Bit about me

I am a PhD candidate and Senior House Officer in Dermatology. As a Brisbane local, I completed a Bachelor of Biomedical Science with First Class Honours at the University of Queensland before undertaking a Doctor of Medicine, and working at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital. My research focuses on phenotypic and genomic risk factors for invasive and in situ melanoma, leveraging 3D total body photography, genomics, and artificial intelligence for precision risk stratification.

Grants and Funding

Australian Skin and Skin Cancer Research Centre Early Career Researcher Grant: ‘Confirming and further exploration of previously reported germline genetic influences on invasive vs in situ melanoma risk’.

Selected Publications

For a full list of publications see https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9680-3120

• Kahler, S., Janda, M., Soyer, H. P., & Betz-Stablein, B. (2024). Re: Incidence of in situ vs invasive melanoma: testing the "obligate precursor" hypothesis. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 116(4), 623–625. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djae006

• Zhao, J., Patel, J., Kaur, S., Sim, S. L., Wong, H. Y., Styke, C., Hogan, I., Kahler, S., Hamilton, H., Wadlow, R., Dight, J., Hashemi, G., Sormani, L., Roy, E., Yoder, M. C., Francois, M., & Khosrotehrani, K. (2021). Sox9 and Rbpj differentially regulate endothelial to mesenchymal transition and wound scarring in murine endovascular progenitors. Nature communications, 12(1), 2564. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22717-9